Only 15% were referred on for rehabilitation. In contrast, 1441 patients (2524 episodes) aged 20-59 were admitted over the same period. Seventy-eight% were admitted to a psychiatric ward and 22% to non-psychiat
in their mind, justify the abuse. For example, if the abuser tells himself the reason they hit their partner is because the house isn't kept clean, they will arrange a day to keep their partner busy so they don't have the chance to clean. If alcohol is ...
caffeine and alcohol, one of the most overlooked reasons is the bed. It may still look good but your bed may no longer be giving you the right support and level of comfort you need to consistently get a good night’s sleep.
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Underpinning the problems inherent in many of these studies is that the gold standard for determining sensitivities, specificities and predictive values was often stool cultures, which themselves have not been shown to be the greatest of tests (as we will discuss). What do we do with these resul...
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the field has largely focused on the neglect of mental health and efforts to redress disparities in care between greater and lesser resourced countries [3,4]. Notably, GMH refers to mental health needs of all countries, focusing on communities at greatest risk for mental health disparities [5,...
Something about this reckoning prompted great waves of grief, of mourning what could have been, or should have been, or would have been. For the first time in my life, I had trouble sleeping—and the wee small hours of the morning are a terrible time to be awake. But gradually life se...
However, there is an increasing realisation that excess body fatness (EBF) is likely to influence the quality of cancer survivorship and disease-free survival. For decades, the discussion of weight management in patients with cancer has been dominated by concerns about unintentional weight loss, low...
In reality, Lauryn had skin cancer—and it took nearly 10 years to get the correct diagnosis. Lauryn Taylor Let that sink in — for nearly a decade, Lauryn lived with a misdiagnosis while her skin cancer went untreated, simply because her condition wasn’t recognized on darker skin. ...