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This serious psychiatric disorder is one of the most disabling mental health issues. It can cause disordered thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. It affects how a person feels, thinks, and behaves, per the NIMH. (2) Nonetheless, it’s possible for people with schizophrenia to live relatively full and satisfying lives. There are treatments available to help reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia, although coping with the disease can be a lifelong struggle, and it has no cure, notes the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)....

Your mother-in-law should discuss the symptoms she is having with her oncologist so that together they can identify its cause. It may be that she has some sites of pain that are related to her arthritis and other sites of pain related to her myeloma. If it isn’t clear what’s causing her pain based on her symptoms and physical examination alone, it may be useful for her to have X-rays or other imaging studies of the painful sites....

So researchers conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial that studied hospitalized patients who were critically ill with COVID-19, focusing on how statins may impact two COVID-19 complications: blood clots and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The trial included nearly 600 people in Iran who had been admitted into intensive care units (ICUs) in 11 hospitals because of COVID-19. Half the patients were given 20 milligrams (mg) daily of a statin called atorvastatin while the other half were given a placebo....

Researchers from the University of Siena in Italy surveyed 84 people with an average age of 54 who had been diagnosed with untreated PTSD resulting from either a terrorist attack or other traumatic events, like hunting accidents, car accidents, miscarriages, and the death of loved ones. Anyone who received treatment for PTSD was excluded from the study. Participants were placed into two groups depending on the type of trauma they experienced, and then were interviewed about medical problems that occurred after PTSD set in....

“I do believe there is less awareness of deep vein thrombosis and its potentially fatal consequences than there should be,” says Susan Kahn, MD, a professor of medicine at McGill University and a senior investigator in the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montreal. The results of blood clots, also called venous thromboembolism, can include fatal blockages of blood flow in the lungs....

Sweating is a normal, essential bodily function. Its main purpose is to cool your body off when it’s in danger of overheating. But like nearly every other bodily function, it’s possible to sweat too much. There’s a wide range in how much people sweat, with your gender, physical activity level, and individual genetic makeup all playing a role. If you feel like you sweat a lot but aren’t particularly bothered by it, there’s no cause for concern....

For many people, their recovery has been built on an infrastructure of community and social support, says Justine W. Welsh, MD, director of addiction services at Emory Healthcare and an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. “While this shift has been easy to adapt to for some individuals, it’s been less so for others. There have been increasing issues associated with social isolation, and my own clinic has witnessed an increase in the severity of substance use,” says Dr....

A recent international consensus led to publication of a position statement that says that women should not be using testosterone for any condition other than post-menopausal low sexual desire, and even then, doses should be kept low, and the patients must be constantly monitored by their doctors. A study published in the February 10, 2020, issue of Nature Medicine (and led by researchers from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter) looked at another angle: the effect of genetically high testosterone on the risk of certain diseases in men and women....

Up to a third of the U.S. population deals with chronic bloating and stomach distension, according to a study published in the April 2020 Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. And that’s just on normal days. You could say that Thanksgiving is a main event, bloatingwise. “When food is the focal point of the day, we tend to eat more frequently — sometimes all day — and the menu is usually chock-full of rich foods and decadent desserts containing more sodium and sugar than typically consumed,” says Jennifer Clemente, a board-certified nutrition specialist and an Institute for Functional Medicine practitioner in Hampton Bays, New York....

1. HIV-Positive Woman Becomes First to Donate an Organ The old image of someone living with HIV is that they are sick — certainly too sick to help heal anyone else. But in 2019, Nina Martinez, 36, shattered that image. In March, Martinez became the first living person in the United States with HIV to donate a kidney. She was quickly followed in August by Karl Neumann. Martinez, who takes HIV medications that have rendered her HIV undetectable, did it to fulfill a promise to a friend who passed away from kidney failure before she could give him her kidney, she said....

The information contained in this report highlights the trade-offs that people with disabilities are forced to make each day, says Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH, the director of the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center and an associate professor of ophthalmology at Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “When you have a disability, it impacts every area of life — where you spend your money, buy your groceries, access healthcare, take your kids to school, and much more,” she says....

A few days ago I took our dog Sadie out into the back garden for a pee. It was a bright, if cold, day and I enjoyed the feeling of the sun on my face as herself searched for just the right spot to empty. By the time I came back into the house it felt like I’d been wearing toeless sandals on my left foot. The first and second toes beyond my big toe were very cold....

Delta is now the dominant variant in the United States and accounts for 51.7 percent of positive COVID-19 samples, according to the latest surveillance data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The prevalence of the delta variant, along with the sluggish vaccination rate, are key factors in a recent 10 percent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States, said CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, in a July 1 briefing....

Uveitis is the inflammation of the uvea, or the middle layer of the eye that’s located under the white of the eye. This layer is made up of the iris, the ciliary body (the tissue around the lens), and the choroid (which includes connective tissue and blood vessels in the eye). People with psoriatic arthritis are at a higher risk of developing this inflammation of the eye, says John M....

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland in the neck made up of two lobes that are connected with a strip of tissue called the thyroid isthmus. The thyroid’s job is to release certain hormones into the bloodstream, such as triiodothyronine (T3), tetraiodothyronine (thyroxine, or T4), and calcitonin, to help regulate the body’s metabolism, growth, and maturation. Sometimes, large bumps or lumps called thyroid nodules grow on the gland. The vast majority of these nodules are benign (non-cancerous), but about 5 percent of them are cancerous, according to the American Cancer Society....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the government organization that keeps tabs on listeria-related infections, and its most recent nationwide data come from 2020. That year there were five multistate listeria outbreaks that resulted in 36 illnesses and four deaths. (1) RELATED: How DNA Sequencing Is Changing Listeria Outbreak Tracking But even though big outbreaks are rare, listeriosis (the medical term for a listeria infection) are still the third-leading cause of food poisoning death in the United States....

Whether in the form of pull-out classes with a more challenging curriculum in elementary and middle school, or honors and advanced placement courses in high school, the central New Jersey native was always a few steps ahead of her peers academically. Because of the gifted and talented program, Santosh thought she was set up for success — destined for it, even. Santosh went to a small high school that valued acceptances to Ivy League colleges....

“Today’s adolescents and young adults are growing up in an age of anxiety,” says Patrice Harris, MD, a psychiatrist and Everyday Health’s medical editor in chief at large. “They’re living in an age of active shooter drills at school, bullying, ‘fear of missing out,’ and success measured by the number of likes — along with pressure, often from peers — that comes with social media use. And when your peers are not just your classmates, but millions of people, as with Olympians, there’s even greater pressure....

Emily was lucky. Her family affirmed and supported her. Her mother found a video of another child describing similar circumstances — Jazz Jennings — and shared it with her. Jennings, now 20, spoke to Barbara Walters at the age of 6 describing how she was a boy who felt like a girl. She went on to become one of the biggest advocates in the transgender community and star of the television show I Am Jazz....

“You just sit still because it’s too painful to stand,” says Lev, 44. “Everything you can imagine doing is painful. Even eating is painful. Driving a car, opening a door, turning the ignition.” After decades of treating his RA with biologic drugs and steroids, Lev was on the verge of accepting the pain as his “new normal.” However, he’d heard of other people with the condition using cannabinoids (CBD) to alleviate their pain and, four years ago, he decided to give it a try, too....