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A rapid point-of-care HIV screen which yields results from a fingerstick blood sample. See AIDS, HIV, Western blot.

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Q. Increase the awareness of fibromyalgia? What has helped to increase the awareness of fibromyalgia?

A. Hello Amanda, We have had criteria for fibromyalgia since 1990. Since the criteria were created, the National Institutes of Health have conducted studies and numerous articles have been written by professionals. Since that time, awareness of this disease has exploded. Through research, we have identified several path physiologic findings that are not there in the "garbage pail" diagnosis. For example, when fibromyalgia patients get a lumber puncture; we see elevated levels of a pain chemical called substance P. Also, if you look at their brain blood flow, they have lots of increased areas of activation in the chronic pain centers.

Q. Why is the awareness not seen in all? I am health conscious and always stick to whole foods and avoid on junk foods……I have a small question. Do all the people think alike..Why is the awareness not seen in all?

A. No. Not everyone think alike. 90% of the people go with the taste and the desire to satisfy the hunger in any possible way. They can achieve that with junk food. Those glittering packets are available everywhere and helps to satisfy hunger without great difficulty. Only people with health consciousness, like you, are trying to avoid on junk foods. In my case, my daughter who is 5 years old always demands junk food. Now I am trying to make her understand that junk food does no good but harm your body. Probably this diet sense should be inculcated in a child by the parents from the childhood and this also gets changed when they grow. Whether to have junk food or not depends on the individuals tolerance limit and the level of awareness he possess.

Q. Why these days in spite of the awareness and knowledge about ADHD, the ADHD patients are on the rise?

A. No …it’s not. I think this growing awareness has made the diagnosis easy and helpful. As previous parents never used to take their child serious for the possibility of any psychological disorders but now they do. Moreover regarding ADHD, now the school teacher and anyone who deals with child are trained to identify the child in their training. Even growing awareness has also paves way for treatment at the correct time before it gets severe.

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Thus it seems to follow that the physical world does not include all that we are aware of, and that images, which are introspective data, have to be regarded, for the present, as not obeying the laws of physics; this is, I think, one of the chief reasons why an attempt is made to reject them.

Not only are we often un aware of entertaining a belief or desire which exists in us; we are often actually mistaken.

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Lastly, he could not help being of opinion that Nastasia must be aware of Gania's love for her, and if he (Totski) mistook not, she had looked with some favour upon it, being often lonely, and rather tired of her present life.

It soon became clear to Gania, after scenes of wrath and quarrellings at the domestic hearth, that his family were seriously opposed to the match, and that Nastasia was aware of this fact was equally evident.

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At such moments she was distinctly and unpleasantly aware of some unguessed sin that lurked within her.

Genevieve was aware only of the diatribe; she knew a flood of abuse was pouring from the lips of the Jewess, but she was too stunned to hear the details of the abuse.

Silverstein groaned her horror of gambling, and her husband, aware that his eloquence had betrayed him, collapsed into voluble assurances that he was ahead of the game.

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"Hum!" said Gondy, laughing; "I was not aware my alms were so well invested."

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"Are you aware, monsieur," said Buckingham, trembling with mingled feelings of anger and uneasiness, "are you aware that you are holding language towards me which requires to be checked?"

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A heavy hand fell upon the shoulder of the escaping Mugambi before he was aware that he was being pursued, and as he turned to do battle with his assailant giant fingers closed about his wrists and he was hurled to earth with a giant astride him before he could strike a blow in his own defence.

After paddling for a whole night, thinking that they were headed for home, they had seen this land at sunrise, and, still taking it for the mainland, had hailed it with joy, nor had Mugambi been aware that it was an island until Tarzan had told him that this was the fact.

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Among respondents who were aware of the study findings, the oldest women and those who did not own their homes had reduced odds of seeking additional information (0.4 and 0.5, respectively).