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  2. Ghost sickness - Wikipedia

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    North American people associated with ghost sickness include the Navajo and some Muscogee and Plains cultures. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted.

  3. Cotard's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. [1]

  4. Melarsoprol - Wikipedia

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    Melarsoprol is a prodrug, a complex of melarsen oxide (a melamine derivative of phenylarsonous acid) with dimercaprol (also known as British anti-Lewisite, or BAL). It is metabolized to melarsen oxide in the body, which then acts by irreversibly binding to sulfhydryl groups on the enzyme pyruvate kinase, thus disrupting energy production in the parasite.

  5. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    But there’s a human cost to maintaining a status quo in which perpetual relapse is considered a natural part of a heroin addict’s journey to recovery. Relapse for a heroin addict is no mere setback. It can be deadly. A sober addict leaves a treatment program with the physical cravings still strong but his tolerance gone.

  6. Culture-bound syndrome - Wikipedia

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    recognition and treatment by the folk medicine of the culture Some culture-specific syndromes involve somatic symptoms (pain or disturbed function of a body part), while others are purely behavioral. Some culture-bound syndromes appear with similar features in several cultures, but with locally specific traits, such as penis panics .

  7. Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia

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    Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.Kuru is a form of prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration.

  8. Have you ever had a 'ghost poop'? Here's what that says ... - AOL

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    According to social media and gastroenterologists, a ghost poop can refer to a few different bowel-related phenomena: The sensation of needing to poop, which ends up being gas A stool that sinks ...

  9. Staff at drugmaker under U.S. scrutiny worked with Chinese ...

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    Employees of drugmaker WuXi AppTec, under U.S. scrutiny for its links to the Chinese military, co-invented altitude sickness treatments with People's Liberation Army (PLA) scientists, according to ...