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One of the biggest problems affecting health around the world is asthma; an increasing number of people are contracting the condition every year. Although it is treatable, that is no consolation to the millions of sufferers worldwide who have trouble breathing when they have an asthma attack.

How Does Stress Affect Health? Filed Under (5568) by MyHealth We are all under stress. Some of us simply cannot handle stress like the others. Because of this, health problems start because of stress mismanagement. Everyone undergoes stress and it’s up to us to learn to control ourselves so that stress will not get the better of us.

from Evidence-Based Child Health Abstract Background In experimental studies, the clinical outcome of acute bacterial meningitis has been related to the severity of the inflammatory process in the subarachnoidal space. Treatment with corticosteroids can reduce this inflammatory response and thereby may improve outcome.

[45] . . . [46] . . . [] . . . [All]Whoa!  Sorry about the long delay, folks.  In case you missed Podcast #45, with Ray DePaulo, the Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, we talked about cosmetic psychopharmacology -- taking psychotropic medications to improve one's mental performance better than one's normal baseline.