Cramping is one of early pregnancy symptoms and cuts down the happiness of conceiving with its acute pain in the abdomen. Although most women complain of discomfort from cramps in early pregnancy, but by medical specialists, this pregnancy symptom is completely harmless. Doctors have found that women who expect motherhood must think about cramping as a positive sign of pregnancy. Cramps can appear as a pain in the back and that means you’re just at the first stage of pregnancy. Now we can understand what physical changes lead pregnant women to feel muscle spasms during the first stage of pregnancy. Full Post…

By Andrea Petersen

What causes a seemingly healthy person to suddenly lose it?

Its a question likely on many minds in light of a series of recent episodes, such as when a JetBlue pilot had to be subdued yesterday by passengers after behaving erratically during a flight.

We dont know exactly what caused the pilots disruptive actions, or why the co-founder of a group behind the Kony 2012 viral video had a public meltdown, or why an American Airlines flight attendant began speaking erratically on a taxiing flights intercom.

Theres a long list of medical and psychiatric conditions that can trigger a psychotic episode, when a person seems to lose touch with reality.

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Jyothi Nallapuneni is a listener rather than a talker. She is shy and modest; her office austere, impersonal; she is, you suspect, largely ego-free. She studied medicine in India before coming to the UK, after a brief stint in Ireland, in 1997. She decided to specialise in psychiatry while in Ireland, continued her training in the UK and became a consultant in 2007.

Psychiatry appealed because mental health patients often have lifelong problems and “even a small change can make a big difference to their quality of life”. Her patients suffer from schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety.

She stresses the importance of the team within which she works.

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I’ve been talking about the dangers of rising levels of arsenic in our foods. But arsenic is also one of the chemical elements in nature–a poisonous one–and so it’s found naturally within the soil of many regions. This built-in source of arsenic is also contaminating the groundwater we use for drinking to some extent. Scientists have in fact detected abundant amounts of arsenic in the groundwater found beneath some parts of New England, the Southwest, and the Midwest. And since arsenic has been linked with many serious disorders, we need to keep a close watch on our own risks for toxicity.

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