How to differentiate between a panic attack and heart attack
Your heart suddenly begins racing. You feel pain in your chest and you are short of breath.
View Article‘It’s like walking into Chernobyl,’ one doctor says of her emergency room
At one New York City hospital, a doctor’s used mask tore as she performed CPR on her infected patient.
View ArticleHistory of rape associated with 'dysfunctional breathing'
Rape and sexual trauma may have long-lasting consequences for physical health as well as mental health, University of Otago researchers have found.
View ArticleGoogle searches for anxiety skyrocket amid coronavirus pandemic
Just like physical health, it is important to check one’s mental health amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. When countries announced lockdown orders, many people were confined to their homes, away...
View ArticleDoctors scramble to understand long Covid, but causes and prognosis are elusive
One night in March 2020, Joy Wu felt like her heart was going to explode. She tried to get up and fell down. She didn't recognize friends' names in her list of phone contacts. Remembering how to dial...
View ArticleIn mental health crises, a 911 call now brings a mixed team of helpers — and...
By the time Kiki Radermacher, a mental health therapist, arrived at a Missoula, Montana, home on an emergency 911 call in late May, the man who had called for help was backed into a corner and yelling...
View ArticleA Judge takes his mental health struggles public
In 1972, just 18 days after he was selected to run for vice president with Democratic Sen. George McGovern, Thomas Eagleton was forced off the ticket.
View ArticleHow is the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis Impacting Sepsis?
In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Ron Daniels about his work at the UK Sepsis Trust and the impact antimicrobial resistance is having on sepsis.
View ArticleHealth plan shake-up could disrupt coverage for low-income Californians
Almost 2 million of California's poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program.
View ArticleER doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them
A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations...
View ArticleIn PA county jails, guards use pepper spray and stun guns to subdue people in...
When police arrived on the scene, they found Ishmail Thompson standing naked outside a hotel near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had just punched a man.
View ArticleAnxiety attack or panic attack: Both may have come from the brain
An attack can come crashing in like a storm on a clear spring day. In an instant, your heart pounds, sweat soaks you and you struggle to breathe.
View ArticleDangers and deaths around Black pregnancies seen as a ‘completely...
Tonjanic Hill was overjoyed in 2017 when she learned she was 14 weeks pregnant. Despite a history of uterine fibroids, she never lost faith that she would someday have a child.
View ArticleSalk scientists map brain circuit triggering the crippling panic attacks
Overwhelming fear, sweaty palms, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate-;these are the symptoms of a panic attack, which people with panic disorder have frequently and unexpectedly.
View ArticleKids who survived Super Bowl shooting are scared, suffering panic attacks and...
Six months after Gabriella Magers-Darger's legs were burned by sparks from a ricocheted bullet at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade in February, the 14-year-old is ready to leave the past behind.
View ArticleAn Arm and a Leg: Don’t get ‘bullied’ into paying what you don’t owe
Caitlyn Mai thought she did everything right. She called ahead to make sure her insurer would cover her cochlear implant surgery.
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