One in every two UK adults claimed to have purchased a product primarily for ethical reasons in 2008, compared with one in every four in 1999. The Co-operative Bank has estimated that spending on ethical food and drink increased more than threefold between 1999 and 2008, from Â£1.9 billion to more than Â£6 billion.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome still under research, leading to rapid onset Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or tics in children and adolescents.he proposed criteria claims that children can be distinguished from traditional childhood onset OCD by the severity, abruptness and dramatic onset of symptoms. According to Swedo, Leckman and Rose (2012), pediatric patients suffering from PANS would be identified by the following criteria:
Hirschsprung* disease (HD) is a disease of the large intestine that causes severe constipation or intestinal obstruction. Constipation means stool moves through the intestines slower than usual.ithout a signal to push stool along, stool will remain in the large intestine. 1  In a healthy large intestine the nerve cells are found throughout the large intestine. 2  Short-segment Hirschsprung disease. 3  Long-segment Hirschsprung disease.