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Mental illness: Early-life depression and anxiety changes structure of developing brain
"New research identifies the brain chemicals and circuits involved in mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, giving potential new directions to their treatment. In addition, research with children shows that early-life depression and anxiety changes the structure of the developing brain."
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Millions of people may be 'allergic to their own home'
"At least 12 million Britons now suffer from allergies caused by dust mites, The Independent has today reported. The newspaper says that a report by the charity Allergy UK has revealed an epidemic of “home fever”, a range of symptoms caused by dust mites and other triggers around the home."
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How ATOS could be put in charge of GP ‘sick notes’
"the same GPs who are to be entrusted with the £80bn NHS budget from April 2013 may be stripped of their role in telling people whether they are too sick to work or not:"
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Emotional Distress in Fibromyalgia: A Question of Subsets
"For decades, the medical community has debated whether fibromyalgia always involves psychological disorders. Now, a new study suggests that 2 distinct subsets exist; type I does not involve psychological disorders, while type II does."
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Where's the Benefit?: Sick? No you're not!
"Strange. The government trusts GPs to run the NHS but not to decide who is too sick to work. Yet they trust Atos and Group 4 who have a proven record of ignoring evidence and making wrong decisions. I wonder which company the government will outsource this "independent" assessment service to?"
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Links of the day 11/20/2011
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