What are the prevalence rates of anorexia nervosa For several reasons, precise numbers are difficult to attain. First, it is difficult to know with certainty the number of people affected by anorexia because, unfortunately, many...
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Read MoreWhy Cancer Develops? The wife of a patient of mine with lung cancer asked to speak to me in private. A wife and mother, M. was battling to keep her husband alive and her family intact. She was experiencing sleepless nights...
Read MoreWhat is a multidisciplinary evaluation team, and how do they help to diagnose an autistic child? A multidisciplinary evaluation team (MET) is a group of certified physicians and therapists from various professional...
Read MoreMultiple sclerosis causes isolated patches of damage to myelin (the covering of long nerve axons). A scar results, and later the nerve axon is damaged. It is one of the most common diseases of the nervous system in temperate...
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