Antibiotic Resistance
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance describes the survival of bacteria when exposed to a concentration of an antibiotic that would normally kill them or stop their ...
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments for Chronic Pain
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is “complementary,” “alternative,” or “integrative” medicine?
The names are confusing, but people now use the terms “complementary” and “integrative” to refer to acupuncture, ...
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Conclusions and Recommendations
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Can America’s Rate of ADHD Diagnoses Continue to Grow?
Indeed, it can. Even as, currently, a shocking one in five American boys has been diagnosed with ADHD, we believe this rate ...
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Consequences of Antibiotic Resistance
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the Most Important Consequences of having Infections Caused by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?
Several major consequences stand out. Infections caused by ...
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Consequences of Use: Adverse Events Associated with Use of Antibiotics in Humans
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the difference between an allergic reaction and an adverse reaction? What are the signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction?
All allergic reactions to a drug are adverse ...
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How Do You Know If You Have It?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Under What Circumstances Should Your Child, Your Partner—Or You Yourself—Be Evaluated for ADHD?
Many core ADHD symptoms, particularly hyperactivity and impulsivity, first appear ...
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How Does Adhd Change Over the Lifespan?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Does ADHD Look Like in the Earliest Years of Life?
No one ever said it was easy to raise toddlers and preschoolers under the best of circumstances. Most parents quickly ...
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How Helpful Is Behavior Therapy, and What Kinds of Behavior Therapies Help the Most?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is Behavior Therapy?
Behavior therapy is the only form of treatment besides medication that researchers have found to be consistently helpful for children and adolescents with ...
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HOW HELPFUL—OR HARMFUL—IS MEDICATION?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How Many US Children and Adults are Taking Medication for ADHD?
In 2015, more than two-thirds of US children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD were taking medication. By the most ...
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How Much Does It Matter Who You Are and Where You Live?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How Do ADHD Rates Vary Between Males and Females?
An enduring myth about ADHD is that it affects only or mainly boys. For much of the twentieth century, five to as many as 10 boys ...
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How Widespread Is It?
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Katherine Ellison
in ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How Prevalent is ADHD in the United States Today, for Both Children and Adults?
Before we answer this question, let’s be clear about the difference between a condition’s actual ...
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Interventions to Reduce Need for Antibiotics and Alternatives to Antibiotics
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are there Ways to Reduce the Risks of Infections so that we do not Need Antibiotics?
We have many tools available to reduce the need for antibiotics by reducing infections. It is ...
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Introduction
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In the United States alone, 100 million Americans—40 percent of adults—live in chronic pain, according to the Institute of Medicine. This is clearly an underestimate because the report does ...
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Marijuana
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is marijuana?
“Marijuana” refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from Cannabis sativa, a psychoactive plant with significant healing properties that has been ...
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The Opioid Mess in the United States
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the “opioid mess”?
It’s the fact that we have two colliding epidemics: the epidemic of chronic pain, which receives almost no media coverage, and the epidemic of opioid ...
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The Opioid Mess Worldwide
Judy Foreman
in The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
On June 1, 2014, in India, the parents of an eight-year-old boy watched in horror as he writhed in pain from a severe genetic disorder. The hospital, like most other hospitals in India, had ...
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Origin and Function
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is an Antibiotic?
The word “antibiotic” comes from the terms “anti,” meaning “against” or “opposing,” and “bios,” meaning “life,” and refers to a substance that works against ...
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Other Uses of Antibiotics (Nonhuman Use)
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the uses of Antibiotics other than to Treat Infections in Humans?
Antibiotics are used widely in human medicine, in many other species—food animals, work and recreational ...
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Preserving Antibiotics and Developing new Antibacterial Treatments
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How Common is Inappropriate Prescribing of Antibiotics?
Many studies have tried to estimate what percentage of antibiotic use in people is unnecessary or inappropriate. Most ...
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Use in Humans
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are Antibiotics Administered? What are the Routes of Administration Besides by Mouth and by Injection? What Determines how they Should be Given?
How an antibiotic is ...
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