Posts Tagged ‘Stress’
Botox Approved to Control Migraine

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials on Friday approved Botox injections, which typically are used to blur the wrinkles, to alleviate migraine, which gave the nod to the pharmaceutical company Allergan to market its drug with patients with a history of suffering from these severe headaches.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) approved the drug for patients experiencing 15 or more days of migraine per month. Allergan, which specializes in cosmetics and medicines for eye care, reported that nearly 3.2 million people suffer from chronic migraines in the United States.
To use this new drug, the doctors injected the patients in the neck or head every two weeks, to moderate future headaches.
Stress and hair loss
This points out the head of communications Mayquel Hair Creations, Marisa Oliver who says the mood and stress processes may produce fumes or temporary hair loss and hormonal reactions that result from these situations result in a higher concentration of certain hormones such as testosterone and hidrocortisol, affecting the hair roots.
It is also common to stress that there is a scaly process, something that, in both cases, “ends when we eliminate that stress,” hence it happens that while recommending “care for the scalp as possible,” said Oliver .
Therefore, and given that we live in a time of stress and “concern for fear of losing their jobs, being unable to pay the mortgage, to be left without a home,” said this expert in the field has been observed in capillary recent months an increase in inquiries related to this issue in order to find a solution.
Alopecia areata stress
Psychosomatic disorders are physical illnesses caused, exacerbated or reactivated by psychological factors.
José Luis González de Rivera, head of the Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz, says passengers are usually disorders as resulting from stress “situation”, transitory, the result of the requirement of a particular time .
Advances in vaccine cocaine addiction
The study results were published in Archives of General Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry.) The scientists found that 38% of participants failed to reach adequate levels of antibodies to stop experiencing the feeling of euphoria that produces the drug.
The vaccine works by “wrapping” to cocaine so that it has no effects on the brain, heart or other organ, “” this is the first successful controlled trial for a vaccine against cocaine, say scientists.
According to previous studies conducted with animals and humans, high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies in the blood can prevent addicts experience that feeling.
However, the researchers stressed that the vaccine who managed the high level of antibodies, only maintained it for two months, so it would need repeat injections.
Anxiety and Stress: two sides of same coin
Stress is an experience of psychological instability in response to environmental factors. This disease is a source of disease and impacts at short, medium and long term. Additionally, you can damage the brain at the molecular level and from there, extending its damage to the body.
Anxiety and stress are disorders that involve a huge social burden in terms of disability and social costs. It is estimated that between 25 and 40 percent of the population has an episode of anxiety over his life.
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorder among the general population. Anxiety and stress appear as two sides of same coin. “The anxiety is the psychological aspect of stress and this is the somatic aspect, the biological side, anxiety,” says José Luis Carrasco, section chief of the Psychiatry and Director of the Unit Personality Disorders Clinical Hospital San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.