Doctor

I will be traveling soon. What should I do to avoid spreading or getting malaria or other infectious diseases?

Some simple precautions will help protect your health while travelling. Your health provider and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare will provide you with detailed information on malaria risk by country, prevention information including recommended anti-malaria drugs, and health recommendations (e.g. vaccinations) for other diseases.
Travelers leaving Liberia should:

Visit your health care provider at least a month before foreign travel for any necessary vaccinations, as well as a prescription for anti-malaria drug, if needed. Until now, there are no vaccines against malaria.

Take your anti-malaria drug exactly on schedule without missing a dose.
Wear insect repellent to prevent mosquito and other insect bites. Your insect repellent should contain DEET as its active ingredient. To prevent malaria, wear insect repellent if out of doors between dusk and dawn when the mosquito that transmits malaria is biting.
Wear long pants and long-sleeved clothing.

Sleep under a mosquito bed net (preferably one that has been treated with insecticide) if you are not living in screened or air-conditioned housing.
Should I Buy My Malaria Pills in the Malaria-risk Country where I Will Be Visiting?

What Is Stress?
Stress is ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them.’

Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep us motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to stress which undermines performance, is costly to employers and can make people ill. One of the founding fathers of stress research, Hans Selye, identified another part of this problem when he saw that different types of definition operate in different areas of knowledge. To a lawyer or linguist, words have very precise, definite and fixed meanings. In other fields, ideas and definitions continue evolving as research and knowledge expand.

Hans Selye’s view in 1956 was that “stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.”
Selye believed that the biochemical effects of stress would be experienced irrespective or whether the situation was positive or negative.
Since then, ideas have moved on. In particular, the harmful biochemical and long-term effects of stress have rarely been observed in positive situations.

The Current Consensus

Prostate Cancer Symptoms All Men Should Know

Prostate cancer symptoms do not usually appear until the disease has spread. However, there are symptoms to watch out for, especially problems with urination. Difficulty with urination is a common prostate cancer symptom. These include:
 Burning or pain during urination
 Inability to urinate
 Frequent urination during the night
 Weak urine stream
 Blood in the urine
 Pain in the lower back and hips
 Loss of appetite, and
 Weight loss

MONROVIA – The National AIDS Commission (NAC) and its international partners began a five-day workshop Monday on the mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS awareness in the Liberian Government’s ministries and agencies.