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That's one reason researchers think the microbiome might be a crucial part of not only obesity and diabetes, but also some of society's most pervasive mental health problems — the very illnesses that, too often, leave doctors stuck and patients frustrated.

One of the more prevalent chronic illnesses in the United States, CRS has been known to cause significant quality of life detriments to affected patients, who often can not breathe or sleep easily due to obstructed nasal and sinus passages.

But when no other illness is involved, patients often reject the notion that the issue is psychiatric and tend to refuse the antipsychotic medications that can help, Davis says.

Professor Janet Treasure from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and senior author on both studies says: «Patients with anorexia have a range of social difficulties which often start in their early teenage years, before the onset of the illness.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

But too often there's no easy way for doctors to tell whether a patient's illness is bacterial or viral or, sometimes, if there's even any infection at all.

The announcement by Madrid is only the latest in a string of cases where healthcare workers contracted Ebola in the course of caring for patients, often to the astonishment of the workers themselves who wonder how they may have contracted the illness because, in some cases, they do not recall any close contact without adequate personal protective equipment.

However, patients and doctors often don't have time on their side because some strains, such as H5N1, can cause severe illness and even death.

The fact that vaccines typically don't work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail patients such as elderly nursing home residents.

Participants in the pilot study were 20 patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a complex painful illness, which often follows fractures or other injuries to the extremities.

She wondered whether the illness might be linked to eating fresh monkey meat: the villagers often foraged for food in the forest and the headmaster who was, tentatively, our «Patient Zero» had returned from his travels with several monkey and antelope carcasses.

There is no simple diagnostic test for the illness, and as a result, doctors are often skeptical it's real and serious, despite substantial and growing evidence for biological abnormalities in patients.

Among patients with advanced cancer and other serious illnesses, aggressive treatments are often inconsistent with patients» wishes and are associated with worse quality of life compared to other treatments.

Autoimmune conditions are seen in millions of patients throughout the world as a family of more than 80 chronic and often disabling illnesses including:

The only way to know for sure if an illness is pneumonia is to take a chest X-ray, but doctors often diagnose it and prescribe antibiotics after examining patients and listening to their lungs with a stethoscope.

Our patients have often struggled for years, searching for answers to understand their illnesses.

Sickness often turns us to comfort foods such as chicken noodle soup, but this dietary approach may not be ideal for all patients with serious illness.

Most of the buyers, however, have been parents and relatives of Alzheimer's Disease patients, whose illness often makes them forgetful and prone to wander away from home.

These animals primarily work in nursing homes and are often trained to help keep patients with Alzheimer's disease or other mental illness from getting into trouble.

Family members often say they haven't seen the patient this happy or excited since incurring their injury or the onset of their illness.

Appointments are available Monday through Saturday and due to the often severe and acute nature of many illnesses, we accommodate emergency referrals for critical patients as a common course of action.

Because specialists are more likely to diagnose and treat patients with uncommon and complex illnesses, they may have more experience and expertise in your pet's condition and often have access to special technologies and equipment...

All too often we see patients who have simply outlived their teeth, or have suffered from systemic illnesses (heart disease, kidney failure, etc.) caused, or worsened by, dental disease.

Mesothelioma patients and their doctors often overlook the cancer in the earliest stage because the early symptoms can be mistaken for the symptoms of other illnesses.

Patients often have coexisting inflammation (either as a normal response to surgery or as a direct result of their illness) that increases the coagulability of blood.

Misdiagnosing an illness and providing the wrong treatment can take valuable time off a patient's life and often prevents patients from receiving the care they need.

This often results in the inability for doctors to treat patients» illnesses or other medical problems during the earliest, most - curable stages.

A critical illness, like cancer or a heart attack, can leave a person in financial ruin, often even draining the patient's life savings.

These therapists are often an important part of the rehabilitation, treatment, and prevention of patients with chronic conditions, illnesses, or injuries.

Sharpe et al add further support to the finding that CBT can reduce depressive symptoms in people with chronic illness, despite it often worsening in those patients without intervention.

For example, Chinese caregivers displayed a tendency for collective decision - making regarding important decisions, adopted a fatalistic explanation for the care recipients» illness, experienced a sense of guilt and shame, 16, 17 and had reservations in expressing their feelings to avoid placing unnecessary burden on other family members.16, 18 Familial obligation to care for the family member with cancer was also emphasised.19 Distress was often experienced in terms of physical symptoms, and emotional coping involved the strategy of endurance.17 Since these culturally derived attitudes and perceptions frame the caregiving experience, interventions that are culturally sensitive, patient - centred and theoretically motivated have been advocated.20

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8