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1 month, 3 weeks ago

TSCS Hosts Mental Wellness Day for Sickle Cell Patients: Navigating Psychosocial Challenges with Expert Guidance

The Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society (TSCS) organized its monthly Sickle Cell Awareness Day today, bringing together patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals for a special event aimed at enhancing awareness and support around sickle cell disease. The event featured a talk by Dr. Azra Fatima, a clinical psychologist specializing in psychosocial care, who addressed the psychological challenges associated with chronic …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside Miranda Hart's home life: Actress gives a glimpse of her bedroom and the cosy fireplace where she spends evenings with her husband in £2million London house - amid shock marriage revelation

Daily Mail

Miranda Hart often keeps her social media fans up-to-date with her latest goings-on. It is essential to get away from the bustle' Miranda Hart often keeps her social media fans up-to-date with her latest goings-on The comedian, 51, has recently been sharing snippets of how she spends her time in her cosy home - including cosying up in front of …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Only Miranda Hart could make the menopause so fun! Star has been tackling a range of symptoms in typical style - including the battle with her expanding bust

Daily Mail

She's loved for her slapstick comedy and ability to find light in even the most mundane situations. Actress and comedian Miranda Hart, 51, has shared her experience of the menopause on social media in her typical tongue-in-cheek style It took 33 years for medics to discover that Miranda was battling Lyme disease, and initially, doctors mislabelled her as being agoraphobic …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chronic illness shattered this teen's life. Her service dog helped get it back

NPR

Chronic illness shattered this teen's life. Her service dog helped get it back toggle caption Emily Elconin for NPR Lilla Lanivich and her service dog, Lopez, do everything together. Lilla talks about how Lopez has helped her deal with multiple chronic illnesses in her podcast Lopez the Rainbow Tailed Service Dog, this year's Grand Prize winner for middle school in …

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4 months ago

Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential bid, endorses Trump. How will it affect the race?

LA Times

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the suspension of his presidential campaign at a Friday news conference in Phoenix, denouncing the Democratic Party of his storied family and throwing his support behind the Republican nominee, former President Trump. Trump said Kennedy’s father, the U.S. senator from New York and U.S. attorney general, and uncle President John F. Kennedy Jr. — both …

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1 year ago

CPR can be lifesaving for some, futile for others. Here's what makes the difference

NPR

CPR can be lifesaving for some, futile for others. Using a defibrillator, they found that he was in an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation, a common cause of cardiac arrest that is often responsive to electric shocks. In one study of over 13,000 patients with cardiac arrest, survival was as high as 35% in patients with one of the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Varsity students with chronic illnesses susceptible to depression: UoH Study

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Students suffering from chronic illnesses have a lower health-related quality of life and such students are at greater risk of depression, according to a study conducted by students of the University of Hyderabad, The study, titled ‘Role of Chronic illness in Health-related Quality of Life among University Students’ was conducted by Teisovinuo Semou, Oindrila Mukherjee, Laxmi Priyanka Nakka and …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How can you exercise when you have a chronic illness?

Slate

This is an installment of Good Fit, a column about exercise. “Like, ‘Hey, today, I’m going to be able to push myself to the end-all brink of my physical effort and be OK.’ And then there’s some days where I’m already not feeling well and if I push myself to the end, it’s not going to benefit me.” Instead, she …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Long Covid sheds light on chronic illness: Meghan O’Rourke Q&A

CNN

CNN — As Covid-19 infection rates fall, doctors and patients are sifting through the wreckage of symptoms left behind. In her new book, “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness,” O’Rourke integrated her experiences of coping with undiagnosed, incurable long-term sickness with reporting on the role of chronic illness in Western medicine. Riverhead Books O’Rourke’s call for medical system changes could …

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3 years, 11 months ago

‘I can’t think unless I’m lying down’: Working from bed, the revelation of 2020?

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

I've Seen Over 50 Doctors And No One Knows What's Wrong With Me

Huff Post

"Like most things in life, illness doesn’t exist in black and white, but in the million shades between." “Having a diagnosis would have confined an amorphous array of unmanageable symptoms into a definable enemy that I could study, measure for size, and destroy.” If you tell someone you’re sick, they want to know what you’re sick with. Without a diagnosis, …

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