General Health Journal

Novartis is excited to showcase the best Lamisil® video’s featured at the Mofilm Tribeca awards this year. These videos are especially remarkable in their ability to make feet top-of-mind in a fun and engaging way.
 
This year Lamisil for Athlete’s Foot was one of seven global brands that worked with Mofilms to support aspiring filmmakers showcase their creative talent. The top five Lamisil entries were entered into the New York, Tribeca Film Festival where Llyod Choi and Simon Yang’s ‘Be proud of your Feet’ went on to win the Grand Prize! An amazing feat.
 
“Be Proud of Your Feet,” features a young man showing how many things you can actually use your feet for. He seems to get his feet out whenever he can with hilarious consequences.  It was the overall winner from seven winning videos of a number of different international brands.
Lloyd Choi, said, “The Lamisil brief really struck me as something that represented a challenge. You don’t normally see such an interesting mix of briefs in film making competitions and Lamisil sparked our imagination.”
Young filmmakers have big ideas and the top four winning videos look at Lamisil curing Athlete’s Feet in a number of humorous and insightful ways. The Mofilm competition was an experiment for Lamisil, and we are delighted with the quality of content we received.
 
Competitors from all over the globe were given just six week to complete a video for leading international brands. Hundreds of people chose to answer Lamisil’s challenge to build awareness of Athlete’s foot and convince sufferers that it’s worth treating, with some very surprising and engaging results.

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The European Commission has launched an initiative, which aims to raise awareness amongst young people about tobacco issues, the “Helpers” is an animated series of 12 episodes.
The initiative video comprises of a series depicts 3 super-heroes who try to save smokers and non-smokers from the negative effects of tobacco, by giving them absurd tips and advice.
Chuck, Skinny and Loona, accompanied by Tapas all colourful characters, a masochistic freak of nature that won’t leave them alone, unify their strengths for better and for worst to help the fight with to raise awareness of how to stop smoking and why.
Watch How to protect a beach from an inconsiderate smoker with these 4 characters? – Sun, beach..happiness? Perhaps. But when your neighbour is smoking like a chimney and suffocating everyone around, it can ruin your day out. There’s no time to waste – the Helpers to the rescue!
Watch how a smoker can make the beach unpleasant and how the characters explore how to In real life, to not suffer from second hand smoke.  There is real advice on help-eu.com
Check out how the helpers are battling against smoking to help promote a life without tobacco- so what are waiting for, help is at hand

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Fetal alcohol syndrome is a serious condition for a lot of children. When a mother drinks alcohol while pregnant, she is putting her fetus at serious risk. In fact, there are so many birth defects, mental and physical, from alcohol in the united states, that it is the leading preventable cause. If people were to not drink while pregnant, there would be less birth defects than by any other act of prevention. In the United States, about 1 in every 750 infants is born with problems associated with fetal alcohol syndrome.

There are many problems associated with drinking alcohol while pregnant, including:

• having a low birth weight and a small head size
• developing slower than normal
• organ dysfunction
• facial defects like smaller eye openings, flattened cheekbones, and cleft lip
• epilepsy
• poor coordination/fine motor skills
• mental problems like trouble socializing and maintaining friendships and lacking curiosity or imagination, and learning problems
• behavioral problems including ADHD like symptoms and a failure to cooperate with authority figures

There are also 40,000 kids who are born with fetal alcohol effects in the United States, which are these same symptoms except less severe.

Besides the physical deficiencies, there are many people who only exhibit the behavioral or emotional deficiencies of FAS, and go undiagnosed. These problems can get even worse when children enter into adulthood, and can include mental health problems and an inability to live independently or function well in society, often leading to trouble with the law.

There is no set amount of alcohol that will cause fetal alcohol syndrome, or fetal alcohol effects. Alcohol effects everybody differently, so it is impossible to say how much alcohol will be harmful. If a mother drinks during the first trimester, she is much more likely to give her kid problems, since the brain is developing during that time. Since the alcohol lingers with the fetus longer than with the mother and effects it in a much higher concentration, any period of binge drinking can have a huge effect on the fetus. The easiest method to protect your infant from life long deficiencies is to not drink.

Read stories from people who have changed their lives at the MonaVie blog.

Illness and Disease drinking while pregnant, fetal alcohol syndrome, monavie

Pink eye, technically referred to as “eye conjunctivitis” and also known as “sore eyes” is a bothersome disease to have. Depending on what causes it, it can be allergic, viral, chemical or bacterial. Your doctor will know the difference based on your symptoms and other test he or she might perform on you.

The symptoms of pink eye start off as a slight itch or a feeling that you have something in your eye. As you scratch/poke at it the irritation will spread and you’ll begin to see it in the corner of your eye.

As the disease progresses, the redness in your eye will increase and you’ll start tearing excessively, impairing your ability to see. Other symptoms include pain and pressure on your eyeball, fever and sensitivity to light. Still, it usually takes two to three days to get over it, and you’ll be as good as new – providing that you don’t let the infection spread to your other eye. The only dangerous form of pink eye is the bacterial infection, which is also the only one that needs to be medicated and is usually accompanied by a mucous discharge from your eyeball.

Illness and Disease Pink Eye

Anyone that has been diagnosed with mesothelioma is eligible to file a claim for compensation as long as the statute of limitations hasn’t expired. You generally must file the claim within 3 years of the diagnosis and if a family member has died, you will need to check the statute of limitations in your specific area.

Victims of mesothelioma come from various trades and skills and performed a wide variety of job duties. Exposure to asbestos generally occurred both during and before the mid 1970’s. And, mesothelioma has been diagnosed in thousands of victims from all parts of the world.

Some of the jobs in which people were exposed to asbestos include insulators, steel workers, ship fitters, pipe fitters, brake mechanics and maintenance workers. But, exposure was possible to any worker that was exposed to dust and asbestos fibers in the work place.

However, you may be diagnosed with mesothelioma even if you’ve never had a job in your life, or never worked around asbestos. Mesothelioma can easily be contracted from secondary exposure. For example, a housewife could develop the disease from being exposed to asbestos on her husband’s clothing.

Many people contracted the disease from simply living in an area where there was an asbestos manufacturing plant. But, even if you contracted the disease through a secondary source you are still eligible to file a mesothelioma claim for all the pain, suffering and expenses that you’ve incurred.

While asbestos remains a health hazard today in many of the older buildings, it is no longer in use in new construction. It is however still found in some brake shoes that are made today. If you have been diagnosed with this terrible disease, or suspect that you might have it, you should file a claim as quickly as you can.

Illness and Disease Asbestos, Compensation, Mesothelioma