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:
To accomplish this goal, the PANDAS criteria were modified to describe PANS â Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. PANS encompasses the whole group of acute-onset cases of OCD while PANDAS describes those cases of PANS that have a documented association with streptococcal infections.PANS and PANDAS are comparable to cancer and leukemia (respectively) as PANS is the large class of disorders and PANDAS is one specific type.he term is used to describe a subset of children and adolescents who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorders, and in whom symptoms worsen following strep. infections such as Strep throat and Scarlet Fever. PANS is a newer term used to describe the larger class of acute-onset OCD cases.