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Autism

From Saturday, March 29 through Wednesday, April 2, this week has been designated as
the first World Autism Awareness Day by the United Nations.Autism is a challenging and highly charged subject with, at least for now, more questions than answers. What is clear is the growing scale of the problem: According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as one in 150 eight-year-old children in the United States have an autism spectrum disorder. Worldwide, the number may be as high as 35 million. Please check this website on CNN about Autism. by Dr Eric Hollander, director of the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence. We are lucky to have Dr Tan working out of our South Riding office as she trained with Dr Eric Hollander in Moun Sinai Hospital in New York.

Stress Awareness Month

April is Stress awareness month. For the 16th consecutive year, April 2008 has been designated stress awareness month during which health professionals and health promotion experts across the country join forces to increase public awareness of our modern stress epidemic.

Stress awareness month is a national, cooperative effort to inform people about the dangers of stress, successful coping strategies, and prevalent but harmful misconceptions about stress.
Stress Facts:
75% of the population experience at least "some" stress every two weeks (National Health Interview Survey). 50% experience moderate or high levels of stress during the same two week period.

A study several years ago estimated that 11 million Americans suffer from unhealthy levels of stress at work. Given events since that time, this number has certainly more than tripled. Studies in Sweden, Canada and other countries show similar trends.

Stress contributes to heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and other illnesses in many individuals. Stress also affects the immune system that protects us from many serious diseases.

Tranquilizers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications account for 1/4 of all prescriptions written in the United States each year.

Stress also contributes to the development of alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity, suicide, cigarette addiction and other harmful behaviors.
Source: The Health Resource Network

New Office Manager

Please help us welcome Terri Crudup, our new office manager to Town Center. If you need to contact her, please email her at tcrudup@towncenterfamilymedicine.com.