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Weekend habit enjoyed by millions linked to disorder and risk of deadliest cancer, new study reveals

Weekend habit enjoyed by millions linked to disorder and risk of deadliest cancer, new study reveals

Weekend lie-ins, late nights and drinking could be making a dangerous sleep disorder worse, scientists have discovered. Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition that causes repeated pauses in breathing during sleep and extreme snoring—affecting between eight and ten million people in the UK, and up to 30 million Americans. However researchers have coined the term ‘social apnoea’ to describe a …

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Kristin Davis Recalls Sarah Jessica Parker Telling Her ‘You Have Body Dysmorphia’ amid Struggle with Eating Disorder

Kristin Davis Recalls Sarah Jessica Parker Telling Her ‘You Have Body Dysmorphia’ amid Struggle with Eating Disorder

NEED TO KNOW Kristin Davis admitted that she had a “thinness issue” while filming Sex and the City The 60-year-old actress said Sarah Jessica Parker once told her she had body dysmorphia She recalled struggling with disordered eating and said she couldn’t “think straight” because of the comments she’d get about her body Kristin Davis is opening up about her …

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Man develops rare 19th-century psychiatric disorder after following ChatGPT's diet advice – TechSpot

Man develops rare 19th-century psychiatric disorder after following ChatGPT’s diet advice  TechSpot A man asked ChatGPT how to remove sodium chloride from his diet. It landed him in the hospital  The Independent Man sought diet advice from ChatGPT and ended up with ‘bromide intoxication’  Live Science The dangerous ChatGPT advice that landed a 60-year-old man in the hospital with hallucinations  New York Post Man …

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New Research on Genes Linked to Stuttering Could Be ‘Life-Changing‘ for Those with Speech Disorder

New Research on Genes Linked to Stuttering Could Be ‘Life-Changing‘ for Those with Speech Disorder

An illustration of Demosthenes of Athens and a photograph of King George VI, both of whom had stutters A genetic analysis of a million individuals with stutters has clued Australian researchers into a potential genetic component that would revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of this common disorder. 400 million people worldwide have stutters, and a cross-Pacific partnership between Curtin Stuttering …

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‘No Purging on My Ship.’ She Hid an Eating Disorder and Lost Her Navy Career. It Saved Her Life

‘No Purging on My Ship.’ She Hid an Eating Disorder and Lost Her Navy Career. It Saved Her Life

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Leah Stiles kept a dark secret tucked in a pocket of her Navy uniform, something she knew could get her booted from the service. In the end, it did. In 2017, her ship, the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, was …

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Online Hate Speech Resembles Mental Health Disorder Language

Online Hate Speech Resembles Mental Health Disorder Language

Key Questions Answered Q: What did this study find about hate speech and psychiatric disorders?A: Posts in online hate speech communities show speech-pattern similarities to posts in communities for personality disorders like borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial personality disorder. Q: Does this mean people with psychiatric disorders are more hateful?A: No. The researchers emphasize that they cannot know if users had …

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Cannabis Use Disorder Triples Risk of Oral Cancer

Cannabis Use Disorder Triples Risk of Oral Cancer

“Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on the epithelial tissue that lines the mouth,” said Raphael Cuomo, Ph.D. associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and member of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. “These findings add to a growing body …

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Four-year-old Lynchburg boy battles rare neurological disorder, how you can help support

Four-year-old Lynchburg boy battles rare neurological disorder, how you can help support

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Four-year-old Charlie Townes is facing a challenging battle against a rare neurological condition known as KCNB1 disorder. His grandmother, Agnes Rucker, described his condition, saying, “Just like a floppy little faun at times. It’s really been hard to see that, but then you see the breakthroughs like now, and just pray that it keeps getting better.” …

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Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets – The White House

Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe.  The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during …

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