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Symptoms And Stages Of Syphillis: Syphilis is a STD, sexually transmitted disease, that is caused by a bacteria. This is a highly infectious disease that can also be passed through blood transfusion or from the fetus of the mother to the womb where she carries her baby. If left untreated, syphilis can cause serious damage to the brain, nerves, and body tissues.

This STD is caused by the bacteria known as Treponema pallidum.  The bacteria can enter from the chafed skin or the mucous membranes.  Transmission occurs when the person infected with it had sexual intercourse with his partner. Men are more likely to get the STD than women.

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Breaking News! Mother's milk to her baby is not confined into myth any more; rather breast feeding to her baby becomes a blessing. It helps her baby to fight against stress, anxiety and depression in the later stage. Breast feeding is often considered as unnecessary as many supplements are available in the market. Even, many working professionals.

And young mothers believe that formula-milks can be given instead.  But, according to the psychologists and pediatric experts, there is no alternative to mother's milk to her baby. Infants, who are breastfed for six to 12 months, are healthier and fit, having good immune system.

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Symptoms of depression show little change during the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center tracked symptoms of depression during the transition from no cognitive impairment to dementia and found that depression is a risk factor and not an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

"Our study suggests that depression is truly a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease," said lead author Dr. Robert S. Wilson. "If depression was an early sign of the disease, we would expect to see it increase prior to diagnosis and as the disease progresses. Our study found very little change.

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My daughter Rachel is sitting silently ten feet away from me, stroking our cat. It's a hot summer day and nearby her siblings are all splashing in our new pool. Why isn't my 11-year-old with them? Because she suffers from clinical depression, and she isn't having one of her better days.

I first noticed Rachel's symptoms when she was 6. She started clinging to me more than usual, crying at the smallest provocation, eating less, and having nightmares. She seemed anxious. After several weeks, the situation seemed to resolve on its own, but, having been through depression several times myself, I was on the watch for other signs.

Symptoms showed up again two years later, at the end of a long winter. Rachel, by then a third-grader, started telling me that everybody picked on her (though this didn't actually seem true), and that she wished she had never been born. That last, increasingly frequent comment scared me, but I decided to give her a few weeks to see if it would pass.

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Scientists have discovered a possible explanation for the symptoms of anxiety and depression that occur in some patients taking the popular statin family of anti-cholesterol drugs. These symptoms could result from long-term, low levels of cholesterol in the brain, the report suggests. It is an already known fact that the anti-cholesterol drugs increase the risk of anxiety and depression, but till now, the reasons were unclear.

Amitabha Chattopadhyay and colleagues showed using lab tests, that long-term use of the drug caused significant changes in the structure and function of serotonin cell receptors. Serotonin is a brain hormone that influences mood and behavior. Adding cholesterol to cells treated with mevastatin restored them to normal.

The results represent the first report describing the effect of long-term cholesterol depletion on this type of cell receptor and suggest that chronic, low cholesterol levels in the brain might trigger anxiety and depression, the scientists say.

The study raises the possibility that depression causes people to put on extra pounds around the belly. The opposite doesn't appear to be the case: researchers found that overweight people aren't more likely to become depressed than their normal-weight peers.

These findings come from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who examined data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA), a 20-year longitudinal study of more than 5,100 men and women aged 18-30. (Longitudinal studies look for a link between cause and effect by observing a group of individuals at regular intervals over a long period of time). Among other things, the researchers wanted to figure out if depressed people were more likely to have larger waist circumferences and a higher BMI, and how that changed over time.

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Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) or sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria which targets both men and women's sex organs. This infection is most frequent among young adults, people in urban places, African Americans, and masses with lower social and economic status transmitted through vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse. Also, the more sex partners you have, the higher risk of Chlamydial infection there is.

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While many believe it is important to put ones income side by side with that of others, a new study suggests such comparisons may cause unhappiness.

According to the study published in the Economic Journal, individuals who compare their salaries with others are less happy as they rank themselves lower on measures of satisfaction with life and standard of living.

"Constantly looking over one's shoulder seems to make the world a less happy - and more unequal - place," said lead researcher Professor Andrew Clark, adding that carrying out.

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Researchers from University of California at Los Angeles have uncovered a brain mechanism that may be responsible for postpartum depression in women. The team has identified a suspect protein in mice that may promote depression-like behaviours.

"For the first time, we may have a highly useful model of postpartum depression," said NIMH Director Dr Thomas R. Insel. "The new research also points to a specific potential new target in the brain for medications to treat this disorder that affects 15 percent of women after they give birth," he added.

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The study used data from Australia's only longitudinal lifespan study, PATH Through Life, which tracks the health and welfare of more than 7,000 people in the ACT and Queanbeyan region. of depression and found the factors varied across different groups. Reseacher Phillip Batterham says, like cardiovascular diagnosis, people can be placed in different categories of risk in regards to depression.

"For those with low symptoms it broke it up by smoking status or a number of life events," he said."For those with a high number of symptoms, it broke it up by whether they are under financial pressure or whether they were in the labour force.

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