Medicine News

Daily Calories

2011-10-15T09:52:00.000-07:00

According to latest researches recommended daily calorie intakes to maintain a healthy weight, laid down 20 years ago, have been slightly on the low side.

In 1991 the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) set out that the average man should be eating 2,550 calories daily, and the average woman 1,940.

After lengthy consultation, those have now been raised slightly - by a frugal 55 calories for men, but a comparatively generous 139 calories for women.

Soups For Dieters

2011-07-23T03:45:00.002-07:00

On a cold day (and we seem to have our fair share of these even in the summer), there is nothing worse than being on a diet and trying to think of something healthy to eat for lunch. We may be craving spaghetti bolognese but pasta isn't exactly the healthiest of lunches! Furthermore, sandwiches using low calorie bread just don’t seem to hit the spot and by early afternoon the stomach is invariably growling. Next time you’re stuck for inspiration why not try some healthy but hearty homemade soup? It’s easy to make a big batch and freeze some for later in the week and the variations are endless. If you prefer your soup smooth rather than chunky, a basic liquidiser or even a sieve is all you need.

You can find loads of recipes online, with the Schwartz website offering plenty of good ideas, but one of my favourites is red pepper and chilli. All you need is some chicken stock (made with stock cubes if you are in a hurry but stick to the low salt variety if you’re trying to be healthy), a couple of chopped red peppers, three or four tomatoes, a red chilli (minus the seeds if you are worried about it being too spicy) and an onion. Fry the vegetables in low fat spray oil, add the stock, cook until everything is soft and then blend. A dash of chilli sauce can be added when you serve the soup to give it an extra kick.

If you’re not keen on peppers, then tomato and basil is another easy and healthy combination. Carrots are another vegetable which lend themselves to soup making. Add the juice of an orange or coriander powder for a change.

For a real winter warmer, lentils go down a treat. There are lots of recipes on the internet for lentil soup but for one with a difference why not go Moroccan and use a little harissa paste?

All these soups, served with a chunk of bread, provide a healthy and filling lunch.

Soups For Dieters

2011-07-23T03:45:00.000-07:00

Female teenagers risk brain damage from binge drinking

2011-07-17T12:34:00.000-07:00

Female teenagers who indulge in a spot of binge drinking too often are putting themselves at risk of damaging the part of their brain that controls memory and spatial awareness. The dangers of drinking too much alcohol within a short space of time and at a young age have long been known, but new research from Stanford University in California has found that adolescent girls are the group most at risk of suffering damage to their brains.

The explanation for this seems to rest in the fact that women's brains develop earlier than men's. The study found that female teenage binge drinkers had less brain activity in a number of regions than non-drinking female teens, with MRI scans used to measure brain activation during a specific spatial task. Meanwhile, the male participants in the tests didn't show anything like the same abnormalities.

Although it's easy to ignore health warnings when you're young and carefree, these results should at least provide teenagers with something to think about. After all, damage to such regions of the brain can, in the future, cause problems when driving, taking part in sports, using maps, and remembering routes. Logical thinking and reasoning are two functions that may also be affected.

It's worth remembering, whether you're a female teenager or not, that alcohol is something to be enjoyed in moderation at all times, as responsible brands such as Fosters – who have recently launched a batch of videos featuring comedians reeves and Mortimer – are always keen to point out.

Hair loss. What to do?

2011-07-05T06:45:00.000-07:00

There are many cousec of hair loss - age, diseases, wrong eating etc.

Our hair is made of a type of protein called keratin. A single hair consists of a hair shaft (the part that shows), a root below the skin, and a follicle, from which the hair root grows. At the lower end of the follicle is the hair bulb, where the hair's color pigment, or melanin, is produced.

Most people lose about 50 to 100 head hairs a day. These hairs are replaced — they grow back in the same follicle on your head. This amount of hair loss is totally normal and no cause for worry. If you're losing more than that, though, something might be wrong.

If you have hair loss and don't know what's causing it, talk to your doctor. A doctor can determine why the hair is falling out and suggest a treatment that will correct the underlying problem, if necessary.

Doctor crisis

2011-05-24T17:13:00.000-07:00

When I hear talks about 'doctor crisis', wich actually may not apply to everyone, but as you know the doctor shortage in regional WA is now at crisis level and not only there. I guess that the problem is rooted in many aspects including such as the long-drawn medical education (almost 12 years) and slow growth in the number of medical colleges.

But there are many colleges offered different medicine graduate programs which dont need long term study but give perfect profession in madicine sphere, for instance Nurse Anesthesia is absolutely great choise committed to the promotion of excellence in the nurse anesthesia profession through education, research, and patient care.

Sleep medicine researches

2011-01-16T20:03:00.000-08:00

If you use any hypnotic drugs you shoul know that recent researches show that it can effect on your body balance and standing steadiness.

Background
Disturbed body balance and standing steadiness are problematic for those who wake up at night or in the morning after using hypnotic drugs. As a result, falls and hip fractures are frequently reported in patients using sleep medication.

Methods
A literature search was performed to identify double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials that examined body balance and standing steadiness. Drugs that were searched were nitrazepam, triazolam, lorazepam, temazepam, loprazolam, flunitrazepam, flurazepam, and the Z-drugs zopiclone, zolpidem and zaleplon.

Results
A total of 57 studies were eligible for inclusion. Results showed that both benzodiazepine hypnotics and the Z-drugs significantly impair body balance and standing steadiness after single dose administration. Impairments correlate significantly with blood plasma levels and are greatest at peak plasma concentrations, but are sometimes still present upon awakening. Balance problems were dose-related and most pronounced in elderly. Co-administration of alcohol aggravated the impairment. After repeated daily use of hypnotic drugs partial tolerance develops to the impairing effects on standing steadiness.

Conclusion
Single dose administration of benzodiazepine hypnotics and Z-drugs significantly impair body balance in a dose-dependent manner. Zolpidem and zopiclone produced similar significant impairment as benzodiazepine hypnotics. Zaleplon significantly impaired balance up to 2 h after intake. Partial tolerance develops after repeated daily use. In conclusion, patients should be warned about the possible risk of imbalance and falls due to the use of sleep medication.

via www.smrv-journal.com/

Diagnostic Image Storage: Regulations and Compliance

2011-01-15T07:20:00.000-08:00

With more and more Picture Archiving and Communication System or PACS solutions being offered by different providers, it is essentially important for you to understand the regulations governing the use of PACS or diagnostic image storage solutions in medical practices. There are several regulations that need to be met, and we are going to look at them in this article.

Diagnostic image storage solutions are classified as medical devices, so you need to review the USFDA’s regulations regarding medical devices before completing your purchase. The Food and Drug Administration defines specific guidelines that all system providers must follow. Check if the system you are getting meets these regulations before completing the purchase.

Since the use of PACS is also related to patient’s privacy and sensitive patient details, you must also make sure that the system you are getting is properly secured. HIPAA compliance is a must, so check if the system you are getting is advertised as HIPAA compliant. If you don’t see proper description, don’t hesitate to ask questions regarding this particular compliance.

There are several other specific regulations that you need to understand before you can choose the most appropriate PACS solution to use. The Mammography Quality Standards Act, for example, must be met if PACS is used in conjunction with mammography diagnostic tools.

GlaxoSmithKline

2011-01-02T19:24:00.000-08:00

Gardian reports that orphans and babies as young as three months old have been used as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, an Observer investigation has revealed.
British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in the scandal. The firm sponsored experiments on the children from Incarnation Children's Centre, a New York care home that specialises in treating HIV sufferers and is run by Catholic charities.

The children had either been infected with HIV or born to HIV-positive mothers. Their parents were dead, untraceable or deemed unfit to look after them.

According to documents obtained by The Observer, Glaxo has sponsored at least four medical trials since 1995 using Hispanic and black children at Incarnation. The documents give details of all clinical trials in the US and reveal the experiments sponsored by Glaxo were designed to test the 'safety and tolerance' of Aids medications, some of which have potentially dangerous side effects. Glaxo manufactures a number of drugs designed to treat HIV, including AZT.

British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints as a result of a whistleblower lawsuit that said the company knowingly sold tainted drugs for years, including GlaxoSmithKline mainstay drugs Avandia, Paxil and Tagamet and a contaminated baby ointment.

Altogether, GlaxoSmithKline sold 20 drugs made at a GlaxoSmithKline plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico according to court papers filed in Boston federal court under the U.S. False Claims Act. The whistleblower's lawsuit was originally filed against GlaxoSmithKline in 2004. It alleged the company submitted false claims to government health programs: drugs manufactured at the plant weren't safe and effective, and thus shouldn't have been covered by government programs.

What is MonaVie RVL?

2010-11-15T13:39:00.000-08:00

As waistlines continue to expand in the Western world, the latest solution to the problem is about to hit the shelves. MonaVie RVL is a weight loss system designed to spur weight loss while providing essential nutritional support. Combining a nutrition shake mix with a nutrition bar and a dietary supplement, Monavie RVL claims to provide the nutritional support and satiety that is lacking in other low calorie diets.

The Diet System
The plan has the user take a scoop of the shake mix in the morning and mix it with either water or milk. Some fruit or a vegetable may be added to round out breakfast. The total calories are about half of what a normal meal would be, and that is essentially how the weight loss will occur. Mid-morning will be part or a whole nutrition bar. This too is low calorie, but Monavie claims that the nutritionally dense bar will satisfy hunger until lunch. It contains acai, which will help to curb hunger, but it is unknown just how much is needed for that to occur.

Mid-afternoon finds another nutrition bar or the rest of the bar that was not eaten in the morning. At some point the dietary supplement should be taken to ostensibly accelerate the metabolism, reduce body fat and burn more calories. On such a low calorie diet, a supplement that can do all those things is critical, and Monavie boasts a proprietary blend that will do just that. The recommended dinner is a balanced meal of no more than 500-600 calories. They also recommend 30 minutes of physical activity a day.

Monavie RVL V.S. A Low Calorie Diet
If the calorie content is any indicator, the Monavie RVL plan works out to less than 1500 calories per day. Although their nutritional products should provide adequate nutritional support, it is still a low calorie diet. The human body requires a certain number a calories per day just to maintain their current weight, and anything below that will affect the speed of the metabolism. Monavie RVL claims to have addressed that issue with their dietary supplement, something that is lacking in a conventional diet.

Summary
Monavie RVL is a low calorie diet system, designed to help users lose weight without sacrificing nutrition. Whether it is effective or not remains to be seen.

After 23 Years in Coma

2010-08-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

A man presumed to have been in a deep coma for 23 years has spoken of his "second birth" after doctors realised that he had been fully conscious all along but unable to communicate.

Rom Houben, 46, was paralysed in a car accident that left him in what doctors thought was a persistent vegetative state. In fact he remained aware of his surroundings and could hear medical staff gradually give up hope on him.

Researchers using new scanning techniques discovered that his brain was still active and trained him to use his right forefinger to express himself on a specially adapted keyboard.

His case is being highlighted in his native Belgium by doctors who are pioneering new ways of understanding coma victims, hundreds of whom around the world could be conscious but locked in paralysis – and, unlike a true coma patient, able to feel pain.

"All that time I just literally dreamt of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt."

Mr Houben, an engineering student and martial arts expert, had been written off as in an "extinct" state after he was seriously injured in a car crash in 1983.

He "woke up" three years ago thanks to coma specialists at the University of Liege who have spoken about the case for the first time to try to draw attention to the condition and save other misdiagnosed patients.

Mr Houben recalled the terrifying realisation after he came round from his accident when he knew that he had lost complete control of his body – but no one knew that he was fully conscious.

"I screamed, but there was nothing to hear," he told the German magazine Der Speigel.

Dry Eyes

2010-08-09T15:14:00.000-07:00

There are different couses of dry eyes including the natural aging process, especially menopause, side effects of certain medications such as antihistamines and birth control pills or certain diseases that affect the ability to make tears, such as Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and collagen vascular diseases.

How the diseas is treated?

Artificial tear drops and ointments. The use of artificial teardrops is the primary treatment for dry eye. Artificial teardrops are available over the counter. No one drop works for everyone, so you might have to experiment to find the drop that works for you. If you have chronic dry eye, it is important to use the drops even when your eyes feel fine, to keep them lubricated. If your eyes dry out while you sleep, you can use a thicker lubricant, such as an ointment, at night.

Temporary punctal occlusion. Sometimes it is necessary to close the ducts that drain tears out of the eye. This is first done via a painless test where a plug that will dissolve over a few days is inserted into the tear drain of the lower eyelid to determine whether permanent plugs can provide an adequate supply of tears.

Permanent punctal occlusion. If temporary plugging of the tear drains works well, then silicone plugs (punctal occlusion) may be used. The plugs will hold tears around the eyes as long as they are in place. They can be removed. Rarely, the plugs may come out spontaneously or migrate down the tear drain. Many patients find that the plugs improve comfort and reduce the need for artificial tears.

Eye care

2010-07-29T10:11:00.000-07:00

There are many online sources of vision problems, eyes health and correction including laser eye surgeons sites that may connect prospective patients with a surgeon in their local area and provides an educational information about different eyes problem. As a rule, doctors recommend a complete eye exam every 1-2 years but very often certain conditions may indicate an exam is needed more frequently.

And if you are looking for information about laser eye surgery to correct vision you can find a lot and in case you have already undergone a laser eye treatment procedure you can use the sites to keep up to date with the latest news about eye problems and eye care.

When the different parts of the eye don't work together the way they should people use glasses or contact lenses, then you are interested the provblem you can also to find online any information you need about.

Health Care Law

2010-07-10T19:24:00.000-07:00

What is Health Care and Social Law? It is governed by the law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence that cover a wide range of legal concerns, from healthcare law, mental health, public health, technology and medical care, to medicine, and the entire healthcare field, including specific laws governing the health industry: physicians, nurses, hospitals and health systems, health maintenance organizations, health insurers, managed care companies, nursing facilities, home care providers, social services and the relationship among them and patients.

Hair loss causes

2010-06-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

Do you know that a cause of hair loss may be:
1. sudden physical or emotional stress that is one-half to three-quarters of the hair throughout your scalp to shed (called Telogen effluvium). You will notice hair coming out in handfuls while you shampoo, comb, or run your hands through your hair. You may not notice this for weeks to months after the episode of stress. The hair shedding will decrease over 6 - 8 months.

2.High fever or severe infection
3.Childbirth
4.Major surgery, major illness, sudden blood loss
5.Severe emotional stress
6.Crash diets, especially those that do not contain enough protein
Also a number of medications, including retinoids, birth control pills, beta-blockers, certain antidepressants, NSAIDs (including iburpofen) and calcium channel blockers

Some women ages 30 - 60 may notice a thinning of the hair that affects the entire scalp. The hair loss may be heavier at first, and then gradually slow or stop. There is no known cause for this type of hair loss.

What's high and low fat food

2010-05-07T13:29:00.000-07:00

Want to know is a food you are going to eat high in fat? Just look at the label to see how much fat a food contains. Generally the label will say how many grams (g) of fat there are in 100g of the food. What's high and what's low?

High is more than 20g fat per 100g
Low is 3g fat or less per 100g

If the amount of fat per 100g is in between these figures, then that is a medium level of fat.

Saturated fat - what's high and what's low?

High is more than 5g saturates per 100g
Low is 1.5g saturates or less per 100g

If the amount of saturates per 100g is in between these figures, then that is a medium level of saturated fat.

Remember that the amount you eat of a particular food affects how much fat you will get from it.

Try to choose more foods that are low in fat and cut down on foods that are high in fat.

New danger semi-pathogenic fungus detected

2010-04-23T12:15:00.000-07:00

In the Canadian province of British Columbia and north-western U.S. states recorded the spread of new strains of the tropical semi-pathogenic fungus that can affect the lungs and brain of man until death. Cryptococcus gattii was first discovered in Australia. It was later revealed that he is quite common in tropical areas of Africa.

Cryptococcus gattii causes life-threatening infection of the pulmonary and central nervous systems in hosts with normal immunity and traditionally has been considered to be restricted geographically to tropical and subtropical climates. The recent outbreak of C. gattii in the temperate climate of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, led to a collaborative investigation. The objectives of the current study were to ascertain the environmental source of the outbreak infections, survey the molecular types of the outbreak and environmental cryptococcal isolates, and determine the extent of genetic diversity among the isolates. PCR-fingerprinting and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) were used to examine the genotypes, and mating assays were performed to determine the mating type of the isolates.

All outbreak and environmental isolates belonged to C. gattii. Concordant results were obtained by using PCR-fingerprinting and AFLP analysis. The vast majority of clinical and veterinary infections were caused by isolates of the molecular type VGII/AFLP6, but two were caused by molecular type VGI/AFLP4. All environmental isolates belonged to molecular type VGII/AFLP6. Two or three subtypes were observed within VGII/AFLP6 among outbreak and environmental isolates. All mating-competent isolates were of the α-mating type. The emergence of this usually tropical pathogen on Vancouver Island highlights the changing distribution of this genotype and emphasizes the importance of an ongoing collaborative effort to monitor the global epidemiology of this yeast.

Whitening Teath

2010-04-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

Every time when you get your picture taken, you hear "Say cheese! Smile!" So you do — you open your mouth and show your teeth. So, how to whiten your teeth naturally, are there recipes that can help you on the way?

There are home whitening methods and you can find them online but very often it does not constitute medical advice, then before you try to use some of them please see your doctor to get medical advice, it’s important! Well, one of the metods is based on malic acid, which acts as an astringent to remove surface discoloration. Combined with baking soda, strawberries become a natural tooth-cleanser, buffing away stains from wine, coffee, and dark sodas. I repeat ones more, it’s no replacement for a bleaching treatment at your dentist’s office, “this is a fast, cheap way to brighten your smile,” says Adina Carrel, DMD, a dentist in private practice at Manhattan Dental Arts in New York. “Be careful not to use this too often, though, as the acid could damage the enamel on your teeth.”

You need:
1 ripe strawberry
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions: Crush the strawberry to a pulp, then mix with the baking soda until blended. Use a soft toothbrush to spread the mixture onto your teeth. Leave on for 5 minutes, then brush thoroughly with toothpaste to remove the berry–baking soda mix. Rinse. (A little floss will help get rid of any strawberry seeds.)

What Is Cold

2010-01-16T21:13:00.000-08:00

You get cold? What to do and what is it?
Colds (also called viral upper respiratory tract infections) are the most common infections know to humans. They are caused by viruses and do not respond to antibiotics. Common symptoms of colds are:

Fever
Nasal congestion or a runny nose (the mucus from the nose can be clear or colored)
Cough
Weakness
Headache
Aching muscles
Sore throat
Watery eyes

The incubation period (time of exposure to appearance of symptoms) of the common cold is usually 1 to 4 days.

How do you treat a cold?
Rest.
Drink plenty of liquids.
Take an over-the-counter pain reliever for headache and muscle aches.
Take over-the-counter cough medicines for coughing.
Take nasal sprays and decongestants for congestion (if you are on prescription medication check with your doctor or pharmacist first).
Take throat lozenges, ice chips or throat sprays for sore throats.
To prevent the spread of your infection cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and wash your hands a lot.
If you smoke STOP!
Antibiotic treatment does not cure colds or viral upper respiratory tract infections.

When should you see a doctor?
If symptoms worsen after 4 to 5 days or persist more then 7days.
Difficulty breathing or chest pain.
Very red sore throat with white patches.
Fever that persist more than 4 days.
Severe headache.
Persistent ear pain.
Neck pain or stiffness

How do you prevent colds?
Eat a healthy balanced diet.
Muscle exercises regularly.
Get adequate rest.
Wash your hands after being with some one who is ill.
Do not share personal items like toothpaste, drinking cups, and eating utensils with other people.
If you are over 55 years old or have chronic medical problems get a Flu shot every year in the Fall.

Ultrasound Degree

2009-12-30T11:06:00.000-08:00

No doubt diagnosis is the important first step to effective treatment of any disease and it really doesn't need any explanation why. As a result, various diagnostic procedures – from common medical tests that include blood, urine, fecal, saliva tests to electrocardiogram, medical images, hydrogen breath test and needle biopsy help to recognize the clinical cause of illness and point the ways to cope with it. The fact is there is no better way than correct and made at early stage medical diagnosis to treat practically any disease successfully.

Such modern method of early diagnosis as Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS), also known as ultrasound, lets to diagnose a variety of conditions and to assess internal organ damage. It is easy-to-use and less expensive than other medical imaging methods. Looking for a job in the medical field, Ultrasound Degree, learning ultrasound equipment for creating internal body images is perfect solution for getting daily job in clinics and hospitals as a diagnostic ultrasound technician and for subsequent upgrowth and development in your career. So, you can find a school right now.

By the way names of researchers who published the first paper on medical ultrasonic are Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik from Austria and we thanks them. It had happened in far 1942 then till now ultrasound investigation is one of the most important and widely spread examinations that help physicians to discover and evaluate symptoms of various diseases.

Protect Yourself From Influenza

2009-11-03T08:28:00.000-08:00

Flu is a serious contagious disease. Each year in the United States, on average, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized and 36,000 people die from seasonal flu complications.

This flu season could be worse because there is a new and very different influenza virus causing illness called 2009 H1N1. CDC expects both 2009 H1N1 flu and seasonal flu to cause illness, hospital stays and deaths this season and is preparing for an early and possibly severe flu season.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges you to take the following actions to protect yourself and others from influenza (the flu):

Take time to get a flu vaccine.
CDC recommends a yearly seasonal flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against seasonal influenza.
While there are many different flu viruses, the seasonal flu vaccine protects against the three seasonal viruses that research suggests will be most common.
Vaccination is especially important for people at high risk of serious flu complications, including young children, pregnant women, people with chronic health conditions like asthma, diabetes or heart and lung disease and people 65 years and older.
Seasonal flu vaccine also is important for health care workers, and other people who live with or care for high risk people to keep from making them sick.
A seasonal vaccine will not protect you against 2009 H1N1.
A new vaccine against 2009 H1N1 is being made.
People at greatest risk for 2009 H1N1 infection include children, pregnant women, and people with chronic health conditions like asthma, diabetes or heart and lung disease.
Ask your doctor if you should get a 2009 H1N1 vaccine.

Take everyday preventive actions.
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.*
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs spread this way.
Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
While sick, limit contact with others as much as possible to keep from infecting them.
Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other measures to keep our distance from each other to lessen the spread of flu.

Take flu antiviral drugs if your doctor recommends them.
If you get seasonal or 2009 H1N1 flu, antiviral drugs can treat the flu.
Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaled powder) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body.
The priority use for antiviral drugs this season is to treat people who are very sick (hospitalized) or people who are sick with flu-like symptoms and who are at increased risk of serious flu complications, such as pregnant women, young children, people 65 and older and people with chronic health conditions. (Most people have been able to recover at home from 2009 H1N1 without needing medical care and the same is true of seasonal flu.)
Antiviral drugs can make illness milder and shorten the time you are sick. They may also prevent serious flu complications.
Antiviral drugs are not sold over-the-counter and are different from antibiotics.
For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started within the first 2 days of symptoms.
Flu-like symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people may also have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with the flu, including 2009 H1N1 and have respiratory symptoms without a fever.
Visit the CDC 2009 H1N1 website to find out what to do if you get sick with the flu and how to care for someone at home who is sick with the flu.

Please visit http://www.cdc.gov/ for more information

H1N1 Flu Vaccine

2009-10-20T21:33:00.000-07:00

Accordint to usatoday.com vaccine for the H1N1 flu won't be widely available until November — a month later than first thought — and some states are expecting delays to last until December.
"Ten days ago or two weeks ago it was thought end of October" that lots of vaccine would be available, said Donn Moyer of the Washington State Department of Health. Now health officials are hearing "the beginning or middle of November."

The CDC's Anne Schuchat said Tuesday that states had ordered 10.8 million of the 12.8 million available doses of vaccine. The CDC had expected to receive up to 40 million doses by the end of October, but last week it announced the number would be closer to 28 million to 30 million. "By November, there will be a lot of vaccine out there," Schuchat said. The agency says it expects to eventually have vaccine for everyone who wants it.

"I wish we had more than we have right now, but I do want to let you know that we do have more coming out every day," Schuchat said.

"The vaccine's in a race against the virus, and right now the virus is winning," said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "I just had three meetings canceled because people were sick."

It's not that the government hasn't done everything it could to get the vaccine made, he said. "They've just overpromised on when the vaccine is going to get here."

Swine Flu Is 'Shooting Up'

2009-10-09T19:16:00.000-07:00

According to health officials child deaths from the new virus, identified in April as a global epidemic and named swine flu were 'shooting up" in the United States. The CDC doesn't have an exact count of all swine flu deaths and hospitalizations, but existing reports suggest more than 600 have died and more than 9,000 have been hospitalized. Health officials believe millions of Americans have caught the virus. The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That suggests deaths from the new H1N1 virus could dramatically outpace children's deaths from seasonal flu, if swine flu continues to spread as it has.

CDC officials say 10 more states, a total of 37, now have widespread swine flu. A week ago, reports suggested that cases might be leveling off and even falling in some areas of the country, but that did not turn out to be an enduring national trend.

"We are seeing more illness, more hospitalizations, and more deaths," the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a press conference Friday.

Health Insurance

2009-09-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

It's not enough to eat and warry less to avoid sickness and to prolong life but health Insurance is also important part of happy long live. According homenews report lack of health insurance kills nearly 45,000 Americans every yearA new report posted online by Harvard Medical School on Thursday shows that a lack of health insurance can be attributed to more deaths every year than kidney disease. The study, titled Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults, shows that the lack of health insurance coverage could be tied to the death of as many as 44,789 Americans per year in the United States. The report added that those without health insurance - which they identified as approximately 46 million Americans - had a 40 percent higher risk of death than those with private health insurance - a rate that has risen significantly after standing only at 25 percent in 1993.

The increased health risk was attributed to findings that showed those with insurance were "more likely" to follow through on recommended medical screenings and appointments to treat chronic conditions and were "less likely to suffer undiagnosed chronic conditions or to receive substandard medical care" than those without coverage.

In the report's summary it suggested that, despite the "thorny" political debate surrounding the idea, health professionals' push for a universal healthcare plan ensuring coverage could have a very positive impact.

"If you extend coverage, you can save lives,” said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor of medicine at Harvard and one of the study's authors, according to the New York Times.

"Health insurance can only make you healthier if you have access to care," she added.

After the report's posting online, its findings will be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, according to the Times.

Cosmetic safety

2009-08-31T10:24:00.000-07:00

The American noncommercial organization Environmental Working Group (EWG) has published a special instruction for cosmetics consumers where specified toxic components which should be avoided in cosmetics, make-up and cosmetics for children.
To avoid negative reactions to a skin and not to destroy the health, it is necessary, first of all, to be able to read labels in that part where the ingredients of cosmetics are listed. Search as a part of cosmetics the names of materials which are considered as the toxic.
LABELS' READING RULES
Components which it is necessary to avoid
1. Begin with the end of list where the preservatives usually are. Avoid to buy cosmetics with the following ingredients:
- Components in which termination there is a word "paraben": methylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben etc.

- DMDM hydantoin

- Imidsazolidinyl urea

- Methylchloroisothiazolinone

- Methylisothiazolinone

- Triclosan

- Triclocarban

- Triethanolamine (or "TEA")

2. Then look in the beginning of the list. Avoid buying products which contain ingredients beginning with an abbreviation "PEG". Then search for substances which are ending with "-eth" laureth, ceteareth etc.
3. At the very end of the list find designations "FRAGRANCE/PARFUM," "FD&C", "D&C" and "CI"

COSMETICS FOR CHILDREN
1. Avoid using children's powders, especially for newborns

2. Read labels. Do not use cosmetics which structure includes following components: - 2-Bromo-2-Nitropropane-1, 3 Diol.
- BHA

- Boric acid

- Sodium borate

- Dibutyl phthalate & toluene

- DMDM Hydantoin

- Oxybenzone

- Triclosan
Besides rules of reading of labels, EWG makes recommendations for choice a various kind of cosmetics, stopping on what components should be avoided.
Shampoos and conditioners:
- DMDM Hydantoin - causes an allergy and irritation can form nitrosamines, provoking cancer occurrence.
- Fragrance - cause allergic reactions, can contain the toxic substances destroying nervous and hormonal systems.
- Ceteareth - and PEG are petrochemicals which can contain the various impurity causing cancer tumors.
Shower gels, personal hygiene products:
- Triclosan - destroys endocrine system, in contact with tap water forms toxic products.
- DMDM Hydantoin - - causes an allergy and irritation can form nitrosamines, provoking cancer occurrence.
- Fragrance cause allergic reactions can contain the toxic substances destroying nervous and hormonal systems.
Toothpaste:
- Fluoride is toxic for nervous system, causes dimness of the teeth.
- Triclosan - destroys endocrine system, in contact with tap water forms toxic products.
- PEG is petrochemicals which can contain the various impurity causing cancer tumors.
Sun screeners
- Oxybenzone - under the influence of sunlight and ultra-violet beams can make substances which cause an allergy or cancer tumors.
- DMDM Hydantoin - causes an allergy and irritation can form nitrosamines, provoking cancer occurrence.
- Triethanolamine is serious allergen. Can contain carcinogenic substances.
- Avoid buying the sun screeners packed in sprays.
- Use as sun-protection creams which contain not less than 7 % zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.
Face skin cosmetics
-DMDM Hydantoin
- Fragrance
- Ceteareth and PEG
- Hydroquinone - causes irritation, contains substances harmful to an organism.
- Do not use anti-ageing cream if they contain: Lactic acid, Glycolic acid, AHA, BHA.

Via Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Allergy drugs will cure a diabetes and adiposity.

2009-08-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

It is not so often possible to meet an immunology mentioned along with type 2 diabetes.
However scientists from Harvard Medical School researchers have gone on this way, applying a medicine against an allergy to adiposity and diabetes treatment. The medications Zaditor and ?romolyn stabilize a population of inflammatory immune cells called mast cells.

Other research has shown that regulatory T cell; provide communication between metabolic and immune systems, being responsible for inflammatory processes in fat tissue. The fat tissue at mice with stability to insulin differs decrease in level of these cells, in comparison with high quantity of macrophages (they develop the inflammatory substances burning hostile cells).
At type 1 diabetes immune cells attack pancreas cells, reducing insulin generation. At type 2 diabetes body cells, as a result of metabolism infringement, become deaf to the signals of insulin, stimulating consumption of glucose.
Mast cells facilitate healing of the damaged tissues, allowing improving of the blood-groove. However their surplus leads to leak molecular "garbage" into the tissue, causing inflammatory processes. Still earlier scientific have found out that the fat tissue of mice with a diabetes contains surplus of these cells.
For hypothesis check they began to give to mice allergy drugs, having divided rodents into four groups: control, group of a healthy food and group of two preparations, in one of which mice also was limited in a food. The third group has considerably dumped weight and has improved indicators of stability to insulin. In the fourth group the absolute recovery was observed. Then scientists have bred mice, whose bodies do not generate mast cells, and it has appeared that they were steady against a diabetes and adiposity.
Harvard scientists have defined that the lack regulatory T cells in fat tissue of mice with diabetes is the seed of disease. Their quantity was in inverse proportion to quantity of macrophages. Now they assume that the inflammation caused by macrophages, results of resistance to insulin. Regulatory T cells, in turn, serve as an inflammation regulator with normal weight of a body.

Swine flu vaccine

2009-07-27T11:22:00.000-07:00

In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety and proper doses.
The European Medicines Agency, the EU's top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they'll start using the vaccine after it's greenlighted - possibly within weeks.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization's flu chief, warned about the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe's approach outright.
"One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines," he said Friday. "There are certain areas where you can make economies, perhaps, but certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies."
The WHO's experts are assured; that the pandemic of a swine flu will touch all countries of the world is only a matter of time.
At the same time the first tests of a new vaccine against a swine flu on volunteers have begin in Australia on Wednesday, on July, 22nd. As the representative of Australian pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd informs, 240 volunteers from 18 till 64 years were recruited to testing.

Two injections of a vaccine within three weeks will be given to participants of tests, and then patients will pass regular analyses of blood. So physicians can define whether an organism develops the suitable immune answer to a virus. According to the physicians, specific virus A/H1N1 will demand a double dose of a vaccine, that guarantee the sufficient level of the immune answer with more probability

Keep your Health with Diet Pills

2009-07-22T11:31:00.000-07:00

Everyone wants to keep fit and healthy, young and beautiful. We try sports, different diets and, of course, diet pills. But with diet pills we have got a huge problem: which pills to choose. We start asking our friends and relatives, we consult our physicians. Our behavior and our motives are easily understandable – we do not want to cause any damage to our health, we want to be fit and stay healthy. Nobody wants to be slim and at the same time to suffer from kidney or digestion problems. That is why it is so important to choose and buy the right diet pills. The pills that will keep you fit and that will not bring any harm to your health. How can one find out which diet pills to choose? The right answer is: to go to Diet Research. The Diet Research specialists have already consulted various medicine and diet experts, have checked the ingredients of different diet pills, and have researched many well-known medical journals in order to help you make the right choice and find your perfect diet pill.

Diet and face skin

2009-07-18T06:25:00.000-07:00

Healthy food is a way to a beautiful skin. The main thing here is harmony and the balanced food. No diet can return the beauty to a skin or support it. Therefore all fashionable diets built on preference of one product more than the others can deprive of you the major nutrients.

Moreover the most dangerous mistakes concerning influence of some products on a skin health have strongly taken roots in our consciousness. So for example representation about that the sweets or fat food cause occurrence of acne is absolutely erroneous. Also wrong to think that fat and fried food by all means lead to increase of level of fat content of a skin or hair. Nobody can guarantee that your skin will become faultlessly beautiful, clean and velvety, if you will eat exclusively cucumbers, grapes, carrot juice and green vegetables. It is important to remember that beauty of a skin defines, first of all, of the genetics, and your gastronomic predilections are not so important, as it is accepted to think. However, if in your diet there are no some major nutrients, you can't avoid problems with a skin.
Vitamins and minerals
Vitamin A is necessary for a skin and eyes health. The best sources of vitamin A: cod-liver oil, carrots, spinach, milk and an egg yolk. If in your diet there is deficit of vitamin A, the skin becomes dry and brakes out in pimples. But you need not also to abuse vitamin A. It causes skin roughness and dryness, a hair fall, increase of sensitivity of lips.

Sensitivity and cracking of lips also arises at deficiency of vitamin B. Vitamin B sources: meat, milk, green vegetables, bean and porridges.
Vitamin C is the major component necessary for health of a skin. Vitamin C contains in all citrus fruits.
Except vitamins, the food also should include minerals.
Iron promotes blood improvement therefore the skin gets a healthy flushes and light.
Iron source - green vegetables, fruit and meat.
Zinc is also very important for skin health .Zinc sours are wheat bran, beef liver, dry lens.

Skin beauty and drinks
Many drinks can do harm to a skin. Alcohol and coffee cause expansion of the small blood vessels located under a skin. Result is the reddening of a skin. Daily use of alcohol causes constant expansion of vessels that leads to occurrence not aesthetic reticulum under a skin. Occurrence of such reticulum can be caused by a number of other reasons: genetics, solar beams, spicy food and action of extreme temperatures.

Food allergy and skin diseases
A food plays a main role in case of two serious skin illnesses - urticaria and eczema.
More often allergic reactions cause milk, eggs and preserved food.

Paracetamol may be forbidden.

2009-07-07T02:18:00.001-07:00

Paracetamol have got to the list of the preparations which release can be shortly forbidden or limited in the USA. The federal expert group has recommended to Food and Drag Administration (FDA) of USA to forbid application of the preparations containing a combination of paracetamol and narcotic analgesics in the country.

More than 100 million such medicines itimes are prescribed annually in the USA. Paracetamol overdose is the leading reason of irreversible damage of a liver. It becomes the reason of 42 thousand hospitalizations and more than 400 fatal cases in the USA annually.
Experts also have recommended FDA to lower the maximum dose of paracetamol in over the counter preparations, such as, Panadol, Theraflu and others, from 500 to 325 milligram's, and to establish the maximum daily dose within 4 000 milligram's. Thus the consultative group has voted against limiting of quantity of tablets of paracetamol in one packing.
According to law FDA is not obliged to follow recommendations of expert group, however in most cases they are carried out, so in the near future it is necessary to expect interdictions and restrictions.
Paracetamol is extremely popular in the USA - in 2005 in the country has been sold 28 billion tablets containing it, that is just about of one dose for four days on each citizen of the country.

To see a life in pink colour

2009-06-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

Scientists of University of Toronto have proved for the first time that our mood changes color images of visual system literally. So, our mood is capable to change color perception of a brain.

Positive or sad emotions influence work of a visual bark in a brain: when we rejoice, the visual bark incorporates more of the color information and when are afflicted - less, neurologists speak.

Experts used a method of a functional magnetic resonance to study, how the visual bark supervises processes of the touch information in a brain at various moods. The good mood did the world visually more brightly while negative - is dimmer.
To see a life in pink color - this phrase can become now a biological reality.

Positive emotions allow a brain to process visually larger number of visible objects; however researchers notice that this potential can lead to impossibility to concentrate attention.

According to the Canadian psychotherapists, the good mood expands horizons of the visible world, allowing to perceive a reality more globally, with integration prospect.

Side effects of such ability consist in derivation from the important problems demanding a narrow orientation: for example, work with the dangerous equipment or check of luggage of passengers at the airport. However the bad mood focuses our attention more narrowly, disturbing processing of the wide information.

Is Swine Flu Pandemic

2009-04-27T06:45:00.000-07:00

Already France, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Spain have reported about potential new cases in which people had been infected with swine flu and Canada confirmed several new cases. In the U.S., where 20 such infections have been confirmed, federal health officials declared a public-health emergency and are preparing to distribute to state and local agenciesa quarter of the country's 50 million-dose stockpile of antiviral drugs. Time.com reported. Meanwhile, in hard-hit Mexico, where more than 80 people have died from what is believed to be swine flu, the government closed all public schools and canceled hundreds of public events in Mexico City.

First of all is this a flu pandemic?

The influenza virus is constantly mutating. That's why we can't get full immunity to the flu, the way we can to diseases like chicken pox, because there are multiple strains of the flu virus and they change from year to year. However, even though the virus makes us sick, our immune systems can usually muster enough of a response so that the flu is rarely fatal for healthy people.

But every once in awhile, the virus shifts its genetic structure so much that our immune systems offer no protection whatsoever. (This usually happens when a flu virus found in animals - like the avian flu still circulating in Asia - swaps genes with other viruses in a process called reassortment, and jumps to human beings.) A flu pandemic occurs when a new flu virus emerges for which humans have little or no immunity and then spreads easily from person to person around the world. In the 20th century we had two mild flu pandemics, in 1968 and 1957, and the severe "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 40 to 50 million people worldwide.

The WHO has the responsibility of declaring when a new flu pandemic is underway, and to simplify the process, the U.N. body has established six pandemic phases. Thanks to H5N1 avian flu, which has killed 257 people since 2003 but doesn't spread very well from one human to another, we're currently at phase 3. If the WHO upgraded that status to phase 4, which is marked by a new virus that begins to pass easily enough from person to person that we can detect community-sized outbreaks, such a move would effectively mean that we've got a pandemic on our hands.

The truth is that every outbreak is unpredictable, and there's a lot we don't know yet about the new swine flu. There hasn't been a flu pandemic for more than a generation, and there hasn't been a truly virulent pandemic since long before the arrival of mass air transit. We're in terra incognito here. Panic would be counterproductive - especially if it results in knee-jerk reactions like closing international borders, which would only complicate the public-health response. But neither should we downplay our very real vulnerabilities. As Napolitano put it: "This will be a marathon, not a sprint." Be prepared.

Outside of Mexico, the swine flu hasn't looked too serious yet - unlike during the SARS outbreaks of 2003, when an entirely new virus with no obvious treatment took the world by surprise. In the U.S., the normal flu season is winding down, which should make it easier for public-health officials to pick out swine flu cases from run-of-the-mill respiratory disease. And there are simple things that people can do to protect themselves, like practicing better hygiene (wash hands frequently and cover mouth and nose when sneezing) and staying away from public places or traveling if they feel sick. "There's a role for everyone to play when an outbreak is ongoing," said Besser.

But the truth is that every outbreak is unpredictable, and there's a lot we don't know yet about the new swine flu. There hasn't been a flu pandemic for more than a generation, and there hasn't been a truly virulent pandemic since long before the arrival of mass air transit. We're in terra incognito here. Panic would be counterproductive - especially if it results in knee-jerk reactions like closing international borders, which would only complicate the public-health response. But neither should we downplay our very real vulnerabilities. As Napolitano put it: "This will be a marathon, not a sprint." Be prepared.

via Time.com

Swine Influenza

2009-04-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

According World Health Organisation the United States Government has reported seven confirmed human cases of Swine Influenza A/H1N1 in the USA (five in California and two in Texas) and nine suspect cases. All seven confirmed cases had mild Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), with only one requiring brief hospitalization. No deaths have been reported.

A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States.

Mexico's government said at least 20 people have died of the flu and it may also be responsible for 40 other deaths.

It shut down schools and canceled major public events in Mexico City to try to prevent more deaths in the sprawling, overcrowded capital. Authorities said they had enough antiviral medicine to treat about 1,000 suspected cases reported so far.

The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas.

Wikipadia wxplanes H1N1 virus as a subtype of the species Influenza A virus. The "H" refers to the Hemagglutinin protein, and the "N" refers to the Neuraminidase protein. H1N1 has mutated into various strains including the Spanish Flu strain (now extinct in the wild), mild human flu strains, endemic pig strains, and various strains found in birds. A variant of H1N1 was responsible for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed some 50 million to 100 million people worldwide from 1918 to 1919.[1] A different variant exists in pig populations.

There are everyday actions people can take to stay healthy.

Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

Dementia Begins at Age 27

2009-03-16T11:55:00.000-07:00

Man's brain starts to decline in late 20s, studies say. Yeas, a new study on aging indicates that reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualization begin to decline in that age, the BBC reports.
Professor Timothy Salthouse of Virginia University, who worked on the research, said: "Results converge on a conclusion that some aspects of age-related cognitive decline begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s."

In the study, the BBC says, Salthouse had his subjects solve puzzles, recall words and details of stories, and spot patterns in letters and symbols. In nine out of 12 tests, the BBC says, 22 was the average age for peak performance. Marked decline began at 27.

It means that just the findings could mean that therapies designed to slow or reverse the aging process may need to start much earlier.

Cloned Three Babies

2009-03-05T09:19:00.000-08:00

A controversial Italian doctor Severino Antinori says he has successfully cloned three babies that are now alive and well in eastern Europe, Daily New reported.

"I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique," said gynocologist Severino Antinori in an interview with the Italian publication Oggi weekly. "It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today.

They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now," he said.

Italian doctor Severino Antinori known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed that in an interview to Oggi weekly (Roma).

He did not provide proof of his claims, but said cells from the three fathers, who were sterile, allowed the cloning to be carried out.

The women's egg cells were impregnated in a laboratory through a method called “nuclear transfer,” he said.

Antinori, who became famous after allowing a 63-year-old woman to have a child in 1994, said “respect for the families' privacy does not allow me to go further.”

He added that the method used was “an improvement” over the technique used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.

Reminded by the journalist that such cloning is prohibited in heavily Catholic Italy, the doctor said he preferred to “speak of innovative therapies” or “genetic recoding” rather than cloning.

Gene of Popularity

2008-12-25T08:03:00.000-08:00

Alexandra Burt, PhD, of Michigan State University asserts that "The idea is that your genes predispose you to certain behaviors, and those behaviors elicit different kinds of social reactions from others," Burt said in a news release. "And so what's happening is your genes are to some extent driving your social experiences."

Studies of a gene that affects brain levels of the chemical messenger serotonin (the 5HT2A serotonin-receptor gene) are supporting this theory.

Sightist assembled more than 200 college men with an average age of 19 into two groups. One group met together to plan a party on a strict budget; the other met to plan a party for which the sky was the limit. Immediately after the planning session, individuals rated their peers on popularity. They also gave a DNA sample.

"So the gene predisposed them to rule-breaking behavior, and their rule-breaking behavior made them more popular," Burt says.

Genetic Research News

2008-12-01T04:08:00.000-08:00

Last researches have showed that a genetic test might determine which sports, like sprinting or football, or endurance sports like distance running, or a combination of the two, maximally suit the talents of your 2 ½-year-old kids?

“I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but I still think it’s good to match them with the right activity,” Ms. Campiglia, 36, said as she watched a toddler class at Boulder Indoor Soccer in which Noah struggled to take direction from the coach between juice and potty breaks.

“I think it would prevent a lot of parental frustration,” she said.

It was discovered the link between ACTN3 and athletics. Actually the process of testing is very easy. Dr. Roth called ACTN3 “one of the most exciting and eyebrow-raising genes out there in the sports-performance arena,” but he said that any test for the gene would be best used only on top athletes looking to tailor workouts to their body types.

Most Popular Diets

2008-11-02T15:45:00.000-08:00

As I see there are several the most popular diets in the world today. First of all this is Atkins Diet Weight Loss Program with low-carb dieting of course. Using the diet you can eat all the protein and fat you want and still shed pounds.

The Zone diet is based on specific food groups: 40 percent carbs, 30 percent fat, 30 percent protein. As a former scientist, Sears devotes considerable time to discussion of the science on which he based his theory. Put simply, the Zone is a "metabolic state in which the body works at peak efficiency," and that state is created by eating a set ratio of carbohydrates, protein, and fat.

The Perricone Prescription diet is a total plan for weight management, youthful looking skin, energy and a clear mind.

The Life Choice Diet is a low-fat vegetarian way of eating with less than 10% calories from fat, this way of eating is very different from the typical American diet.

Weight Watchers diet is the way with its innovative Points system, supportive meetings, online program and new plans. Actually you can eat anything you want, but must stay inside your daily point limit.

Macrobiotic diet includes ten progressively restrictive stages. The last stage of Ohsawa's macrobiotic diet consisted only of brown rice and water. Due to its extreme restriction, Ohsawa's version of the macrobiotic diet is no longer recommended by macrobiotic diet counselors.

You can easely find any information about each of them to try to change yourself. Just be careful take your doctor advice before you start to.

Laser Eye Surgery

2008-09-22T22:05:00.000-07:00

Developed over 20 years ago, Laser Eye surgery has become a widely performed operation in the last few years. With technology advancing, people have more confidence in what was once an experimental procedure.

Laser eye surgery is performed on unanesthetized patients, and is entirely painless. Any discomfort should pass within six hours of receiving the treatment. With a 99% success rate, it is obvious why Laser Eye Surgery Melbourne is one of the premier locations for this type of surgery. LASIK surgery is becoming a popular way to correct eyesight. Patients are able to be completely free of glasses or contact lenses, and the change is usually permanent.

Medical Bills

2008-09-05T18:38:00.000-07:00

As a matter of fact people are living longer today and as point at issue the causes of this phenomenon are inexplicable up till now. A long healthy life is real gift based on right genes and good habits. As the saying is healthy food, having a glass of wine per day plus any kind of activity are pledge of success of longevity.

Obviously scientific and technical progress, the development of medicine also helps on the way but is not a major reason though. However if you want to be health you should pay for your quality medical care. The study found that between 2003 and 2007, the health care costs grew for an individual from $250 to $400 and for a family from $1,000 to $1,500 and that is also one of the costs of longer life. Often medical debt issues become critical for many of us. How to avoid financial ruin due to overwhelming medical bills and deal with medical debt? How to dispute medical bills? All these and many others questions have definite answers. Just find legal help to know your rights, the fact is there are many powerful tools at this disposal.

How to Get out of Depression

2008-08-11T07:35:00.000-07:00

There are some moments in your life when you feel depressed. This can happen because of several reasons. You can feel depressed because of lack of vitamins and other useful substance that your body needs for living. Another reason to get into depression is when you have some problems which arise because of different reasons. For example, you can feel that you are not satisfied with the job that you are doing now or do not have a lot of friends who can give you a helping hand or just can not find you husband or wife.

Of course there are a lot of ways to get out depression. For example, you can make use of meditation therapy which gives you an opportunity to sort out your ideas and thoughts and finally you will be able to change something inside of you that will help to get out of depression. In some cases as a part of depression therapy the doctor that is treating you can give several medicines which can make treatment easier for you. So as you see if you get depressed there is always a way out because there is always somebody who is ready to help you.

Holiday Health

2008-07-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

Last time, we were talking about the holidays. It's always difficult not to indulge with so many treats and parties around the holidays. Here are some tips for staying fit, or at least not expanding, during the holiday season.

1. If there are a lot of treats around your office, try to avoid them as much as possible. If you get a box of chocolates from someone, for instance, and you know you'll dig into it if it comes home - don't bring it home! No, you aren't being rude. Find someone to whom you can give it so that the giver doesn't know that you've given it away. Your body will thank you.

2. Continue to exercise. Just because it's the holiday season doesn't mean that you stop working out. Now, maybe you can even step it up a bit, work off some extra calories and strip that fat.

3. Watch carbs. While watching the football game, try not to munch on pretzels and breads. Reach for vegetables, fruits and proteins as much as you can.

Ways to Prevent a Skin.

2008-07-13T00:10:00.000-07:00

It's interesting, United States researchers have discovered that the combination of daily exercise and a cup of coffee may help prevent skin cancer.

The team of researchers found that compared with the UVB-exposed control group, the caffeine drinkers showed an increase of about 95 per cent in UVB-induced apoptosis, the exercisers showed a 120 per cent increase, while the mice that were both drinking and exercising showed a nearly 400 per cent increase.

One of the study's authors Dr. Allan Conney says if apoptosis takes place in a sun-damaged cell, its progress toward cancer will be aborted.

The team say drugs which induce apoptosis are currently being researched as a method of preventing different types of cancer, but the combination of caffeine and exercise appears to have a similar protective effect.

Dr. Conney says the cumulative difference seen in the caffeine-drinking runners is possibly due to some form of synergy between the two factors.

Coffee is not the only beverage to contain caffeine, but it does contain the most and recent research has found that while those with high blood pressure, and pregnant women should limit their caffeine consumption, coffee may reduce the risk of developing gallstones, kidney stones and colorectal cancer.

Interesting though the research is, more is needed to establish if the findings are similar in humans; people are advised to use adequate sun protection when exercising in the sun.

via Associated Press

How I relax after work

2008-07-10T05:37:00.000-07:00

Hi guys! I would like to tell you how to relax after a long working day. Of course there are lots of opportunities. Most of people do sports especially swimming which is really great. When getting into the swimming pool you forget all your problems. Some people even say that water can absorb all your negative emotions and feelings and of course help to overcome bad effects of stress.

But as for me I prefer spa. I have been looking for a spa salon for many years which would suit me most and I think finally I have found it. I consider day spa in LA to be the best of all. Only hear I can relax and regain health. I have become a regular visitor of this place because of the friendly atmosphere and nice service.

Another relaxation tool for me is yoga. I took up yoga two years ago when I had back pain and my doctor gave me a piece of advice to take some yoga classes and even gave me a telephone number of his coach. First of all I bought all yoga appliances which are really great. I even managed to get a custom yoga mat where they printed my photo. So I advise everybody to take up yoga and visit spa at least once a month to relax after work.

Natural Medicine

2008-06-26T03:45:00.000-07:00

Very often we use complementary natural medicine such as different kinds of herbs, even preferring alternative medicine to modern medicine and sometimes we have all reasons to do that. An herb is plant and we use the plant or part of it for its scent, flavor and therapeutic properties of course. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 4 billion people, or 80 percent of the earth’s population, are estimated to use a form of herbal medicine in their health care. No doubt herbal medicine is a large part of naturopathic, homeopathic, Native American Indian, Ayurvedic, and traditional oriental medicine.

People which want to improve their health use herbal medicine as a dietary supplements, because herbs have been used for a long time for claimed health benefits. They are sold as tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts and fresh or dried plants.

Just don’t forget befour you start to use it

Consult your doctor first
Dont take a bigger dose than the label recommends
Take it under the guidance of a trained medical professional
Be especially cautious if you are pregnant or nursing

Why should we reject eyelasses?

2008-05-26T09:34:00.000-07:00

Why do people wear eyeglasses? The answer is simple - they have a bad eyesight and unfortunately they can't live without prescription spectacles. Actually, they can live but the most of the benefits may be unreachable for them if they do not see well. Even a blurred image of your lover will not attract your anymore and the things that were once sharp and clear (provided your eyesight has worsened) do not bring you such a feeling as they used to. Anyway, there are always many wayouts of such a situation.

The first thing that comes up to your mind can be a surgical interference but as a matter of fact not all the operations end successfully and there is always risk to lose your eyesight at all! Besides, eyesight operation costs a substantial sum of money and the majority of people can not afford this.

Wearing lenses is really a step forward in comparison with wearing eyeglasses as they are practically invisible and they do not "spoil face". Besides when you are wearing lenses you can also
buy sunglasses and enjoy the sun like all other people do. But lenses demand a careful and timely attention: a holder and a solution.

Simple plastic and cheap metal eyeglasses are still very popular today and not because they are really cheap in comparison with other solutions for your eyesight but also because they are practical, need minimal attention and if you choose the right glasses for your face - it won't spoil your look, may even make it better!

Source of ‘optimism’ found in the brain

2008-05-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

Two regions of the brain linked to optimism have been discovered by researchers, newscientist.com reported. Brain scans obtained using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) revealed that reflecting on both past and future events activated the amygdala and the (rACC) areas, both of which sit deep in the middle of the brain. However, positive events – and particularly those imagined in the future – elicited a significantly bigger brain response in these regions than reflecting on negative events. The identification of the sites that signal positive thinking could shed light on the causes of depression, they say.

The US team says that the act of imagining a positive future event – such as winning an award or receiving a large sum of cash – activates two brain areas known as the amygdala and the rostral anterior cingulated cortex (rACC). The finding lends weight to earlier studies that suggested these brain regions malfunction in depression and hint at new ways of diagnosing the disorder.

Elizabeth Phelps at the New York University, US, and colleagues measured how optimistic 15 volunteers were using a standard questionnaire. The researchers then asked these subjects to lie in a brain scanner and reflect on one of a number of potential scenarios.

For example, in one part of the trial, subjects followed specific instructions to recall a negative event in the past, such a funeral attended in the past five years. In another part of the experiment they had to imagine what it would be like to be involved in a car crash in the near future. At other points in the study subjects had to reflect on positive events such as winning an award in the past or receiving a large sum of cash in the future.

The Best Deal for Home and Professional Use.

2008-05-01T17:42:00.000-07:00

Using achievements of modern technology scientists have found new and new ways to make people's lives easier and safer. There can be no doubt that electronic devices have a great impact on the living environment. Today they help people not only to control their houses, cars, TV, lights, DVD or mp3 player but focusing on health they help them to keep to track of the state of their health right from home. With increasing numbers of people with chronic illness and disability is increasing variety of electronic devices which are able to provide them with support and even treatment.

So it’s no wonder that with developing of health care technologies the home has become the major site of health care. For instance such helpful and easy to use device as Nebulisers is a machine which can be useful for treating a range of conditions including asthma, COPD, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis. It works by turning liquid medicine into a fine mist that one can breathe easily into the lungs. Or Body Fat Monitors that can help successfully all those who want accurately and painlessly to monitor the body's fat content while he or she is in a dieting or fitness program.

The most common or critical health conditions, such as blood pressure, also known as hypertension, excessive cholesterol or body fat have received a great deal of attention of course. As you know, high blood pressure can damage many parts of the body. No doubt that in case you have high blood pressure, you have a higher risk for stroke, heart disease, heart attacks and kidney failure, but regular physical checkups with Blood Pressure Monitors can help you to control your blood pressure to reduce these risks.

There are many different types of home health care devices you can choose depending on your needs from pain relief to health examination to save your health and life. The best deal for home and professional use.

Contact Lenses: Feel the Freedom of Leaving Your Glasses at Home

2008-05-01T02:41:00.001-07:00

Seeing the world clearly without the help of eyeglasses is something that we all take for granted until our eyesight begins to deteriorate. As soon as we require vision correction, it's obvious to us that life was easier and involved less hassles when we had perfect vision. However, requiring vision correction no longer needs to mean that you have to be constantly encumbered by glasses in order to enjoy sharp vision. In fact, with contact lenses you can feel the freedom of leaving your glasses at home while still seeing the world with exceptional clarity.

Thanks to significant advances in the eye care industry, contact lenses are now very comfortable to wear. Available in many different brands and varieties, modern contacts are suitable for many different types of people with many different eye care and vision correction requirements. Even if you have astigmatism or require bifocal correction, there are contact lenses available that will allow you to enjoy clear vision comfortably and easily. Contacts are also available at very affordable prices from discount retailers such as Coastal Contacts. Offering everything from lenses for long-term wear to monthly and daily disposable varieties, Coastal Contacts has contact lenses to meet everyone's needs.

With so many options offered by modern contact lenses, it's easy to leave behind the hassles of eyeglasses for a night on the town, while playing sports or even for the entire day. Best of all, contacts provide a full field of vision as well as superior peripheral vision, so you can enjoy sharp eyesight in every direction. When you trade your glasses for contacts, you'll also be trading hassles for freedom. So if you want to experience clear vision, consider the many possibilities offered by contact lenses.

Diabetes.

2008-04-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

What is diabetes? First of all people can get diabetes at any age. This disease means that your blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high. Your blood always has some glucose in it because your body needs glucose for energy to keep you going. But too much glucose in the blood isn’t good for your health and the key to managing diabetes is knowledge. There are two major types of diabetes. In type I (Juvenile-onset or insulin - dependant) diabetes, your body completely stops producing insulin, and therefore you must take daily insulin supplement (injection) to survive. The usually develops in children or young adults, but can occur at any age. In type II (adult onset or non insulin dependent) Diabetes, your body produces insufficient insulin to properly convert food into energy. This usually occurs if one is over 40, overweight and has a family history of diabetes. And depending on the type of diabetes you get right diet, exercise and regular check-ups. So the more you know about your disease, you have better chances t keep it under control. Poorly managed diabetes can lead to a host of long term complications.

Everyone who has diabetes needs to take care of it, because after many years, the disease can lead to serious problems with your eyes, kidneys, nerves, and gums and teeth. But the most serious problem caused by diabetes is heart disease. When you have diabetes, you are more than twice as likely as people without diabetes to have heart disease or a stroke.

If you have diabetes, your risk of a heart attack is the same as someone who has already had a heart attack. Both women and men with diabetes are at risk. You may not even have the typical signs of a heart attack. Don’t forget about diet planning which is the cornerstone of managing diabetes. As usually the diabetic diet is an otherwise normal balanced diet, with a few modifications. A balanced diet depending on the patient’s age height, weight, physical activity and sex, will limit the number of calories to be taken each day. An ideal diet for a diabetic should contain the right amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats, plus vitamins, minerals and micro nutrients.Take care!

Going to travel east? Vaccination is a MUST!

2008-03-27T12:34:00.000-07:00

Immunization is one of the necessary thing to do if you are going to travel abroad and visit exotic countries. To prevent travel-related infections and be on a safe side you must undergo through the procedure of vaccination.

If you are vaccinized in childhood or youth against such dreadful diseases like meningococcal meningitis or typhoid shots or vaccination for Pertussis, you have a higher chance to combat them.

It's wide known that Canadians like any other nation in the world like traveling a lot. When traveling all of them have medical insurance but still some of them die of serious illnesses that could nevertheless be prevented beforehand. Vaccination from infectious diseases can prevent and decrease the rate of deaths among all the travellers.

Do you know that bladder cancer can result from just a travel diarrhea and the name of such an awful transition is a Montezuma’s revenge. Regular check-ups with your doctors as well as preventable immunization can save your health and life in remote exotic countries.

Eating as a Style Life.

2008-03-12T15:13:00.000-07:00

We are different and all our preferences, including eating are different as well. There are many eating styles one can use depending on her or his cultural tradition, subjective flavoring substances, personal habits, age and reasons of health of course. An eating style is not diet at all. It’s rather your personal preference in one or another sort of foodstuffs.

For example standard American food, as an eating style, is characterizing by emphasis on meats, eggs, dairy products, white breads, fried foods, convenience foods, processed snack foods, and sweets. Fruits and vegetables may be included, but often as a guilt-driven add-on or afterthought. This type of food as an eating style are losing greater and greater numbers of people to heart disease, cancers, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other killers as a result.

The preference of followers of natural/ whole food is consistently toward self-prepared meals and snacks made from fresh, whole, minimally processed ingredients. They tend to eat fresh, live, raw foods and juices are esteemed highly, but variations of the natural / whole foods eating style differ on the ratios of raw to cooked foods. The goal is to eat less fat, fewer calories and this way of eating is much healthier than standard American.

There are people which are practicing the vegetarian eating which is based on abstinence from eating all forms of animal flesh. Actually there are much more variations of the vegetarian eating styles than you could suppose. Some vegetarians are junk-food junkies: they consume the SAD or low-fat SAD (see below), only minus the meat. Others are very health-conscious and eat mostly whole, natural foods along with eggs and/or dairy. For vegetarians, the line is drawn to favor those foods which do not require the killing of an animal. Vegan eating is also referred to vegetarian, but excludes all animal products entirely, including all flesh, all dairy items, all animal milks, all eggs, honey, gelatin (including gelatin capsules used for vitamins and other supplements) and any other edible thing that comes from an animal.

Also, there is well known cluster of people which could be called as chronic dieters. Their eating style is what it says. Those persons are so preoccupied with losing weight that other health concerns are exceedingly trivial. Even taste and meal enjoyment frequently lose out to weight loss efforts. Usually, a chronic dieter gains and loses weight over and over and over again, that is if they lose weight at all. Then as a rule "chronic dieter" have a wide spectrum of health problems.

Problems to Statin Use.

2008-03-01T06:43:00.000-08:00

Researchers led by Catherine Noblet of Rouen University Hospital identified 96 cases of tendon complications from the French Pharmacovigilance database between 1990 and 2005 that were attributed to statins,sciencedaily.com reports.

The researchers were able to link the tendon problems to statin use because symptoms appeared after the statins were started and improved when the statins were stopped.

"Our study suggests that regular tendon clinical examination may be required in statin-treated patients, particularly during the first year following statin therapy initiation," the study authors said in a statement.

Tendon conditions -- including tendonitis and tendon rupture -- usually occurred within eight months of beginning statin therapy. The most common tendon affected was the Achilles tendon, with pain, swelling, warmth and stiffness the most common symptoms.

First Laboratory Developed Test. Virus PCR

2008-02-15T15:40:00.000-08:00

CYPRESS, Calif., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Diagnostics, Inc., the infectious disease diagnostics company of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), today announced the first laboratory developed test in the U.S. for detecting the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. Commercial availability of the molecular polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test will enable physicians in the U.S. to test patients who may have contracted the virus, such as individuals returning from regions in Africa and Asia where chikungunya is endemic. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suggested that the chikungunya virus, which caused an outbreak in Italy in 2007, has the potential to enter and spread in the U.S.

"The availability of our chikungunya virus PCR test will give healthcare providers in the U.S. an important option for identifying patients, particularly travelers, who may be infected with this potentially disabling virus," said Dr. Jay M. Lieberman, medical director, Infectious Diseases, Focus Diagnostics. "In recent years, Focus Diagnostics has brought to market new diagnostic tests that physicians can use to diagnose emerging infectious diseases, such as West Nile Virus and SARS. If chikungunya emerges in the U.S., our test could become an important tool to help mobilize an effective public health response. Chikungunya is a challenge to diagnose because its symptoms can mimic those of other diseases, including other mosquito-borne diseases, so the availability of an accurate diagnostic test is essential to minimize spread of the disease."

Anabolic Steroids. Questions and Answers.

2008-02-11T04:00:00.000-08:00

Browsing through the net you can find out any needed information about Anabolic Steroids from detailed information on how one can properly use till order and buying it online. Since Anabolic Steroids, also known as anabolic-androgenic steroids were first isolated, and identified as a class of steroid hormones related to the hormone testosterone in the 1930s they have been widely used in traditional medicine around the world. Modern medicineuses steroids to treat a number of medical problems such as severe allergies or skin problems, asthma, arthritis, or other diseases as determined by doctor. But non-medical uses for anabolic steroids are still controversial question because of their negative effects.

Today this is controlled substances in many countries, including the United States and banned by all major sporting bodies, such as the WTA, ITF, International Olympic Committee, FIFA, UEFA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the National BasketballAssociation, the European Athletic Association and the National Football League.Everybody remember the story happened in 1988, when Olympic officials stripped Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson of his gold medal and world record at the games in Seoul, Korea, after he tested positive for steroids. Johnson was banned from competition for life.
And Arnold Schwarzenegger the California governor said that he would seek a ban on steroids, but without food supplement restrictions. "Of course, we want to keep the sport clean. It says, 'body-building', not 'body-destroying'. "But people should take food supplements, people should be able to take the vitamins and all of the nutritious stuff that is available, but stay away from drugs."

Stay Young and Healthy in every Ages.

2008-02-04T23:49:00.000-08:00

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright” (1869 - 1959)

How to stay healthy in every age this is the question that everyone wants to get answer. First of all one has to watch over the health that is right. Studies show that people who live to age 100, as a rule, feel fine into their 90s.
And maintaining a healthy weight is important step on this way. Avoid coronary heart disease and other killer conditions associated with being overweight by keeping your weight in check: Eat fruits and vegetables and limit your intake of fat and calories. Our food choices dictate our body weight, energy level and what raw materials are available to the body. Also an exercise is one of the best things you can do for your body. It helps your heart, your immune system, your mood and much more. Learning about its benefits can prove to be enough motivation to get you moving. And when you need a little extra nudge, you can rely on tips for sneaking in enough activity and actually making it enjoyable. Have a good sleep because this is essential to good health. Improving the quality of your sleep can have great impact on your health. Some research has even tied lack of sleep to weight gain, diabetes, and more. Some sleep problems are the result of habits, while others may be caused by a sleeping disorder. Don't smoke. Quitting reduces your risk of heart disease almost immediately, and over the years also reduces your chance of getting lung diseases, including cancer. Protect yourself from the sun's deadly rays. To lower your risk, try to avoid unnecessary sun exposure, especially between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. And when you are outdoors, wear a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15.
Don't drink to excess. While studies have shown that a single drink each day might not harm health — and might even have some beneficial effects — too much alcohol can damage almost every organ in the body and weaken the immune system.

To stay young and healthy as long as it possible is within your power. Keep your mind wide open all the possibilities, keep learning, keep cheerful friends, tell the people you love that you love them at every opportunity. Lost time can never be found.

Individual Diet Way.

2008-01-22T06:34:00.000-08:00

Everybody knows that there are a lot of techniques, tips and plans for weight loss from traditional to very exotic ones, from aerobics, various diets and weight loss programs to using diet pills, nutritional supplements and such weight loss products as Phentramin, Xenical, Bontril or Meridia. There can be no doubt that there is no short or easy way to lose a weight, it always requires a time and you have to be ready to work hard to get the results will be worth it.

Nowadays browsing through the internet you can find out a great number services provided great chance to lose excess weight, to decrease your appetite and to increase your energy levels at the same time. All what you need is just to compare and pick up the most suitable individual way taking into account all your personal peculiarities such as your genetics, eating habits, exercise, metabolism and others specific ones. Just don’t speed up the process and strive for victory.

Best Recipe for a Longer Life.

2008-01-16T15:32:00.000-08:00

The European Heart Journal study asserts that a little alcohol can be healthy. Have anybody doubt of that? Everybody knows that dozen alcohols is great deal and Danish researches have confirmed that a little alcohol combined with a healthy active lifestyle may be the best recipe for a longer life. They found that people who led an active lifestyle were less prone to heart disease - but the risk was cut still further if they drank moderately.

The researchers followed nearly 12,000 men and women for nearly 20 years, during which 1,242 died from ischemic heart disease (IHD).
Overall, they found people who did not drink or take any exercise had the highest risk of heart disease - 49% higher than people who either drank, exercised or did both. When comparing people who took similar levels of exercise, they found that those who drank moderately - one to 14 units of alcohol a week - were around 30% less likely to develop heart disease than non-drinkers.

This finding held good for people who were completely inactive, through to those who took vigorous regular exercise - with the overall risk declining as exercise levels increased. Non-drinkers who were physically active had a 31%-33% reduced risk of IHD compared to physically inactive non-drinkers. But their reduced risk was dwarfed by physically active people who drank at least one drink a week - their risk was up to 50% lower than that of physically inactive non-drinkers.

However, experts warned people should not be encouraged to drink, as too much alcohol can be very damaging.

Clones Abound in Nature.

2008-01-11T15:05:00.000-08:00

There is no secret in that that agriculture companies and farmers are ready to turn cloning into a routine tool of production agriculture at any moment. Last year the prestigious National Research Council was asked to study foods made from cloned animals. The council, an independent group that advises the government on scientific issues, concluded that no evidence that meat or milk derived from healthy cloned farm animals can harm people.

There are two main questions we need the answer. Are the animals themselves healthy, and are the products nutritionally indistinguishable from those produced by non-cloned animals?
By its very definition, a successfully cloned animal should be no different from the original animal whose DNA was used to create it.
But the technology hasn't been perfected, meaning many attempts end in birth defects. The FDA acknowledged concern about the animals' welfare in an 11-page summary of its initial review, to be posted on the agency's Web site Friday.

From Science Fiction to Fact
Clones abound in nature, including human identical twins. Scientists created artificial clones from embryo cells starting in 1894, but adult mammals weren't cloned until 1996. Farm animals have been cloned by the hundreds recently, and companies want to use them in food production. Mammal cloning milestones:

1996: Dolly the sheep (made public in 1997)
1998: Mice, cattle
1999: Goats
2000: Pigs cloned; using mice, clones of clones are produced
2002: Rabbits, cats
2003: Horses, rats
2004: Adult human cloned to create embryos, which are destroyed to extract cells
2005: Dog

Your Dental Plans.

2008-01-07T16:07:00.000-08:00

Pain in a tooth is such sort of pain that everybody knows what is this and no one can ignore. The best way to try to avoid the critical situation is such dental emergency procedures as brushing the tooth at least twice a day, flossing your tooth at least once a day and visiting your dentist for dental checkups with professional cleanings at least two times a year. If you do not follow these simple rules you have a chance to see an emergency dentist more often than you would like to do it.
There are various types of dental insurance and dental plans, vision and prescription coverage programs for individuals, families and groups which can help to get high quality and at the same time affordable dental care. You see that overall medical benefits gets more and more expensive each year and so choosing the right value is an important step in purchasing dental coverage for you and your family. Some people find that dental discount plans may be an attractive and affordable alternative or perfect addition to dental insurance because usually they are very affordable, do not have waiting periods, and often cover procedures that traditional dental insurance will not cover.

Search, compare and choose your own money-saving discount dental plans for getting the care you need and saving your money without any restrictions.

Ban on Smoking.

2008-01-01T14:58:00.000-08:00

Tobacco is the only product that kills people when used as the manufacturer intends. Globally, 1.1 billion people smoke. Each year tobacco causes some four million
premature deaths. By the year 2030, tobacco is likely to be the world’s leading cause of death and disability killing more than 10 million people annually and claiming more lives than HIV, tuberculosis, motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide combined. Еhat is the real truth about tobacco smoking.

Ireland was the first European country to implement a comprehensive ban on smoking in public places in March 2004. MPs have been voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all pubs and private members' clubs in England at 2006. Now according to BBC smoking has banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Eight German states, including Berlin, have ushered in 2008 declaring their pubs and restaurants smoke-free. Almost a third of Germans smoke and the authorities in Berlin have decided not to enforce the restrictions actively for the first six months. In France, a law forbidding smoking in public places has now been extended to bars, cafes and hotels. The French health ministry allowed smokers a 24-hour "grace" period for the New Year festivities in a gesture of "tolerance". By the way any smoker caught flouting the ban thereafter can be fined up to 450 euros (£332; $662), while those who turn a blind eye to smokers on their premises can be fined up to 750 euros.

Greece has the highest proportion of adult smokers in Europe - 45%
Norway followed soon after, but allowed a smokers' corner in workplaces
Italy banned workplace smoking in January 2005 and Naples and Verona have made smoking illegal in public parks
Belgium allows smoking in cafes and bars if they have ventilation installed and are at least 50sq m (538sq ft) in area.

Traveling Through Brain Cells

2007-12-23T06:57:00.000-08:00

Researching brain cells the team from the Humboldt University in Germany and the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands have made an interesting medical discovery. It appears that there could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests. The research, conducted with rodents and published in the Dec. 20 issue of Nature, could rewrite the textbooks on just how important individual brain cells or cell clusters are to the working mind.

The Dutch and German study found that stimulating just one rat neuron could deliver the sensation of touch. Before these insights, "The thinking was that very large ensembles of neurons [brain cells] had to be activated at some point for the animal to feel or perceive" a stimulus, explained the senior researcher of two of the studies, Karel Svoboda, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Va.

"But it turns out that a remarkably small number -- on the order of 50 or so activated neurons -- is sufficient to drive reliable behaviors," said Svoboda, who is also associated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in New York.
A second research project from the US suggests the computational ability of the brain cell could be even more complex, with different synapses - the many junctions between neurons and other nerve cells - able to act independently from those found elsewhere on the same cell.
This could mean that, within a single neuron, different synapses could be storing or processing completely different bits of information. Dr Douglas Armstrong, the deputy director of the Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics, said the research did not mean all neurons had an individual role to play but that, in some instances, they might be capable of working alone with measurable results. "The fact that a single cell can influence behavior in the cortex is fascinating," said neuroscientist Paul Sanberg, director of the Center for Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida, Tampa. The new findings are "allowing us to answer questions about how the brain controls behavior at the cellular level," added Sanberg, who was not involved in the studies.
He said: "The generally accepted model was that networks or arrays make decisions and that the influence of a single neuron is smaller - but this work and other recent studies support a more important role for the individual neuron.
"These studies drive down the level at which relevant computation is happening in the brain."

Hyperlipidemia-high cholesterol level

2007-12-18T10:58:00.000-08:00

Abnormal lipid metabolism in the context of insulin resistance results in decreased concentration of high-density lipoproteins which is responsible for the hepatic transport of cholesterol. These changes in lipoproteins balance lead directly to increased atherogenesis and progressive atherosclerosis. When you drop in at a vitamin shop you should hunt for special vitamins and supplements that will keep the level of cholesterol in your body balanced.

Low fat intake is normal for the human being. The only fats that the organism requires are essential fatty acids, i.e. linoleic and alpha-linoleic acids (vitamins F1 and F2). Being polyunsaturated fats, they have to be well-balanced in a healthy diet. If you buy vitamins and nutrition supplements you are to be very careful in order to purchase only the best quality medicines - a quality vitamin complex that is approved by the healthcare agency.

However, the following grave defects commonly distinguish Western diet:

Fats intake is excessively high;

Fats qualitative composition is unsatisfactory;

Ratio between essential acids is unbalanced.

While nowadays one is unlikely to refuse from fats completely, it is advisable to restrict fats intake at minimum and monitor their quantitative and qualitative composition.

Massage Therapy

2007-12-12T17:05:00.001-08:00

In our age of stress situations in our day to day professional and personal livelihoods one of the best way to get relaxation is good massage of course. As you know, massage helps reduce emotional tension, induce relaxation and calm stress, besides that it is argued that professional massage has a great effect on alleviate back pain and other annoyances.

Probably massage is the oldest and simplest form of medical care. As long ago Egyptian used massage treatment in what we convince seeing on their tomb paintings showed people being massaged. In Eastern cultures, massage has been practiced continually since ancient times. A Chinese book from 2,700 B.C., The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, recommends 'breathing exercises, massage of skin and flesh, and exercises of hands and feet" as the appropriate treatment for -complete paralysis, chills, and fever." It was one of the principal method of relieving pain for Greek and Roman physicians. Julius Caesar was said to have been given a daily massage to treat neuralgia. "The Physician Must Be Experienced In Many Things," wrote Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, in the 5th century B. C., "but assuredly in rubbing.. . for rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose, and loosen a joint that is too rigid."

There a great number of different types of massage. The most popular of them is:
Swedish massage or simply massage therapy
Asian Massage Therapy
Aromatherapy Massage
Hot Stone Massage
Deep Tissue Massage
Shiatsu
Thai Massage
Reflexology
Back Massage
Face and Head Massage
Foot Massage
Neuromuscular Therapy massage
Massage with using oils such as Apricot Kernel Oil
Natural Massage Melts
and more.

If you need some instruction to prepare common Massage Oil here it is:
• 6-8 teaspoons grape seed oil
• 6 drops of lavender essential/fragrance oil
• 2 drops rose essential/fragrance oil
• 2 drops jasmine essential/fragrance oil
Just blend ingredients well and to warm up oil before doing any massage including your fingertips.
Massage Therapy is relaxing, gentle and effective treatment for anyone.

Guided imagery fights overweight

2007-12-04T12:26:00.001-08:00

Among the alternative weight loss methods guided imagery is one of the most delcate yet very effective ways. The Weight Loss imagery helps reduce the impulse to eat compulsively, in the state of anxiety or depression, because it's a consoling, refreshing and inspiring experience for most people. Though it doesn't work from the very first time of listening and you won't become a calm, easy person after you've listened through the audio piece once or twice - this is a sort of "therapeutic hypnosis" ot guided meditation that steadily alters your thinking and attitudes with repeated use. With each session you get the ability to "self-regulate" or calm yourself when you feel anxious or depressed. The program is not geared towards relieving stress, removing anxiety or depression, it just provides the tools to manage it when it comes. And you come to use those tools automatically over time.It works differently for different people: some get rolling right away while others spend days and weeks listening to the imagery audio before they really feel ready to start losing weight. Once they are ready the proceed with the a matching behavioral program, and the imagery intensifies the willingness to stay with it. This weight loss program imagery helps improve self esteem and reduce the feeling of depression. Even severely obese people who are still fighting to lose weight find themselves more confident, energized and loving toward themselves after listening to this weight loss program.

Sleep Deprivation

2007-12-04T07:53:00.000-08:00

What is it sleep deprivation? It’s good if you don’t know what it is yet, you know whay I mean. But actually sleep deprivation is a very widespread disease with definite symptoms. Sleep deprivation is a serious condition that can negatively impact your life. In short, you do not get the sleep you need and this is caused by not having enough time to get the sleep you need. How much sleep do we need? We need enough good quality sleep to feel alert during the day, especially during the afternoon. If you have a sleep debt you will very sleepy in the afternoon and it may cost in lost production, accidents, nervousness and conflicts. Besides that there are some medical conditions interfere with sleep. Many different conditions can have a negative impact on sleep, such as ADHD, anxiety, asthma, bipolar disorder, depression, post-traumatic and stress of course. Stress has emerged as a chronic condition in our fast-paced society. Rest and relaxation are the best cures for stress and stress-related problems, but unfortunately those problems can actually inhibit restorative sleep.

The body and mind need time to decompress from each day's activities. When people work overtime, work from home, run around to kids' extracurricular activities, sit in traffic for hours, etc., it cuts down on the physical and mental downtime our bodies need.

Stress can short-circuit your body and make it more or less forget how to relax and rest. It is also a bit much to ask our bodies to cram in all of its decompression time into sleep hours only. The world turns at a much faster pace than it ever did before; though we may not want to slow down, we must be respectful of our own mental and physical health.
Anxiety, Depression and Sleep
Anxiety and depression can both alter a person's ability to fall asleep and sleep soundly. This can manifest in different ways, from feeling panicked or having a racing mind when you are trying to fall asleep, to having exaggerated, irrational feelings of fear or someone in your house, to waking in the middle of the night and feeling listless as you try to get back to sleep. Not only can the actual medical problem affect sleep - so can the medicine used to cure the problem. Whether it is an antidepressant, theophylline for asthma or even, surprisingly, sleeping pills, medicines can have unsettling side effects. Be sure to thoroughly discuss your medication, and its side effects, with your physician.
What to do? First try to avoid too much stress.
Eat a balanced diet.
Avoid too much caffeine and nicotine, especially in the evening hours.
Don't overdo alcohol. Also sport, outdoor activities and high spirits will help you on this way. Additional way is to try melatonin sleep aid.

Robot Future Dentists.

2007-11-29T08:40:00.000-08:00

A man is so imperfect, he needs to eat, to sleep, he grieves over a mere nothing, he has a pain and finally man is mortal. This is very sad but the fact. Actually a man is defenseless and open to injury like a child and needs to be cared for with someone else. The ancients had been looking for the defense in God but we rely on scientific and technical progress only. And this is really not bad. This thought occurred to me every time I read about regular achievements of science and engineering. AFP reports today that Japan's future dentists may soon be able to better appreciate patients' pain by training on a humanoid robot that can mumble "ouch" when the drill hits a nerve.

The robot, resembling an attractive young woman with long black hair and a pink sweater, also can listen to instructions and react to pain by moving her eyes or hands.A group of robot and computer makers presented the high-tech dental patient in Tokyo at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition, a four-day technology showcase that opened Wednesday.
The medical simulation robot, named "Simroid," is designed to be used for clinical training at dental schools, said Tatsuo Matsuzaki, an official at robot maker Kokoro Company Ltd., which developed the body and control system.
The 160-centimeter (five-foot-three) robot can say "it hurts" and frown when it feels uncomfortable from the dental drill.
"Because it's so real, dental trainees can see patients' feelings and will be able to develop good skills as they treat it, not as an object, but as a human being," Matsuzaki said.

Medical Calendar

2007-11-28T05:00:00.000-08:00

It seems that the Medical Calendar is great deal! It is an easy-to-use scheduler for doctors that'll free you from a writing routine. The handy scheduling software will suit perfectly for a single physician as well as for a whole health center. It will help you to quickly create a competently organized schedule for the whole staff and if you want to have your reception hours at hand and don't want to miss any important job-related events, then Medical Calendar is just what the doctor ordered!

The creators of Medical Calendar have done a good job in crafting the Date Navigator that makes the scheduler extremely easy-to-use. At any time you can jump to the required date, edit reception hours, patient data, etc. You can change time intervals from a detailed day schedule to a brief quarter overview in order to provide yourself with the most fitting schedule. What's more, you can choose vertical or horizontal timelines and 12 or 24 hours format.

All information stored in Medical Calendar can be secured with a password preventing from unauthorized access. To safeguard your data, you can also take advantage of the adjustable Auto Backup feature and save the data to the secured archive. Additionally, the schedule can be exported to a variety of formats, including MS Outlook, XML, HTML, XLS, TXT. Thus you can use your schedule in different applications. When you need a printout of your schedule, you'll certainly appreciate the powerful Print Designer. It'll help you to print your schedule in the most convenient form, choosing from a number of templates.

You can raise your glass and to say cheers.

2007-11-25T13:50:00.000-08:00

It is said that when Johann Wolfgang Goethe was asked, which three things he would take to an island. He stated: "Poetry, a beautiful woman and enough bottles of the world's finest wines to survive this dry period!" Then he was asked what he would leave back first, if it was allowed to take only two things to the island. And he briefly replied: "The poetry!" Slightly surprised, the man asked the next question: "And Sir, what would you leave back if only one was allowed?" And Goethe thought for a couple of minutes and answered: "It depends on the vintage!"

Indeed if our hearts are warm with happiness or if sorrow chills our hearts we need to take a glass of good wine. We have heard a lot about favorable influence of wine upon man’s organism and from time to time we get new and new arguments in favor of it. “The healthiest people do include moderate drinking in their lifestyle,” says Eric Rimm, Sc.D., associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. You can reap alcohol’s health benefits within weeks, and the gains accumulate over time.” You are watching your calories and wondering what your best bet is: beer, liquor or wine? You must know that ounce for ounce, beer turns out to have the fewest calories (13 for regular, 9 for light), followed by wine (25) and liquor (64 to 82). But when you consider how much you're typically served of each, you may be better off ordering a cocktail. That's because a drink containing a jigger of alcohol, mixed with water, seltzer or diet soda, will have no more than 124 calories—roughly 25 calories less than a 6-ounce glass of wine or a 12-ounce bottle of beer. (Light beer, with only 103 calories per bottle, is also a good choice.) If you like your drinks mixed with regular soda or juice, however, beware: You could slurp down 300 or more calories. Generally experts recommend either12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1½ ounces of 80-proof liquor. And it does not matter which sort of alcohol you prefer - all forms of alcohol have ethanol, the ingredient that adds a health benefit. But women who have a high risk for breast cancer should have less than one drink a day; there’s evidence that alcohol can raise the odds for some forms of the disease and those with a family history of alcoholism should avoid alcohol altogether.
Moderate drinking raises HDL (“good”) cholesterol, helping reduce the risk for heart disease and possibly stroke, a study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston indicates. Alcohol also makes blood platelets less sticky, so they’re less likely to form into potential heart-attack-inducing clots. It may insulin levels, lowering your risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the journal Obesity. It appears that alcohol can increase cells’ sensitivity to insulin, which in turn allows cells to burn glucose faster and reduce blood sugar levels also that alcohol can increase cells’ sensitivity to insulin, which in turn allows cells to burn glucose faster and reduce blood sugar levels.
A glass of good wine can make our daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance as Benjamin Franklin said.

Herbal Vaporizer.

2007-11-21T15:17:00.000-08:00

Everybody knows that every year, millions of people get sick with the flu (influenza) and cold. And if someone has symptoms of colds, flu, cold respiratory tract infections somebody else is always quick to say: “There are a lot of ways to say good-bye to medicines.” And sometimes he is right, because we have got a great store of natural healing therapies called alternative medicine which includes such well known home health care treatments as natural herbal medicine, homeopathy, diet, shiatsu, yoga, spiritual healing, meditation and more. Herbal therapy has especial wide popularity among them as the most effective and without side effects as a rule. For instance eucalyptus has pronounced antiseptic characteristics and can be used in remedies to treat coughs and the common cold. Experts recommend the use of fresh leaves in teas, gargles and inhalations to soothe sore throats and treat bronchitis and sinusitis. And the perfect solution on this way is using Herbal Vaporizers which will help you not only to treat respiratory disease more effectively but to take drastic measures for prophylaxis of the influenza. This is full featured, compacted, functional and easy to use. It’s indispensable and useful thing in every family.

Vaporizer Features:
Glass on Glass interface
Hands free glass whip
Handcrafted wood case
Ceramic heating element
Lights up (Multi-color LED)
Adjustable temperature up 238 degrees Celsius

Calories: Total Macronutrient Intake.

2007-11-19T06:04:00.000-08:00

Carbohydrates, protein, fats, and alcohol—the dietary macrocomponents—are the sources of energy in the diet. Under normal circumstances, more than 95% of this food energy is digested and absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract to provide the body's energy needs. Studies of normal and overweight subjects have not shown any significant differences in the proportion of food energy absorbed. In some underweight subjects, however, malabsorption of nutrients is an important factor. Food energy is used to meet the body's needs, including protein synthesis; maintenance of body temperature, cardiac output, respiration, and muscle function; and storage and metabolism of food sources of energy. When more energy is consumed than is needed for metabolism and physical activity, the excess is stored, primarily as adipose tissue.

Energy is the capacity to do work. In biologic systems it is usually measured in kilocalories (kcal) or kilojoules (kJ). One kilocalorie (equivalent to 4.184 kJ) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water 1°C (e.g., from 15 to 16°C) at standard atmospheric pressure (760 mm Hg).

Energy balance refers to the relationship of energy intake to energy expenditure and energy storage. Less energy expenditure than energy intake results in a positive energy balance and storage of energy primarily as body fat. Increased fat storage is appropriate during pregnancy and lactation, during some periods of growth and development, and during recovery from trauma or malnutrition, but it may not be desirable under other conditions. When energy expenditure exceeds energy intake, energy balance is negative and leads to weight loss. When intake equals expenditure, equilibrium results and body fat is maintained, regardless of whether the body weight is at, above, or below normal. Even at stable body weight, however, the percentage of body fat frequently increases with age unless regular physical activity is maintained. At the same body weight, some sedentary people have relatively more body fat than those who exercise. Thus even at normal weights, these individuals may have more adiposity than desirable.

Prolonged insufficient energy intake results in malnutrition, which is observed in many developing countries and is also a public health concern for a minority of the U.S. population. In most cases, insufficient food intake results from a lack of economic ability to obtain food, from an illness, or from physical or mental disorders that prevent sufficient ingestion or utilization of food to meet energy expenditure, or in some cases from voluntary restriction of food intake and dieting.
(Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk (1989)
Commission on Life Sciences)

Right Healthy Weight.

2007-11-13T03:45:00.000-08:00

There are a great number of healthy diets you can do to help your overall health. But how to choose the right one? First of all before you start any diet don’t forget to consult with your physician.

It’s very important to have a healthy weight for your height is important and experts have developed a way to help figure out if a person is in the healthy weight range for his or her height. It's called the body mass index, or BMI. BMI is a formula that doctors use to estimate how much body fat a person has based on his or her weight and height.
The pounds/inches BMI formula, is:
your weight (in pounds) x 704.5 divided by your height (in inches) x Your Height (in inches). So if your BMI now is in the range 19 to 24.9 you have a healthy weight.
If your BMI is in the range 25 to 29.9 you are considered to be overweight and may incur moderate health risks. For example, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure are all linked to being overweight.
If your BMI is 30+ you are considered to be obese. Obesity is associated with increased risk of cancer, heart disease and other health problems. A BMI of 30 and over increases the risk of death from any cause by 50 to 150 percent, according to some estimates.
If your BMI is 35+ and you have a waist size of over 40 inches (men) and 35 inches (women) you are considered to be at especially high risk for health problems.
If your BMI is 40+ you are considered to be seriously obese and at a very serious risk of health problems.
Note: Above BMI 25, the higher the BMI, the greater the risk of developing additional health problems.

Physician Medical Reviews.

2007-11-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

No wander that millions of people which have some kind of problems with the health are keeping up on medicine news. Now using the internet we have great opportunity to learn a lot of very useful things, to get great number advices by any medical theme, to chooce Health Improvement Center offered a variety of techniques and services, to read Physician Medical Reviews covered a wide range of subjects, from the most basic aspects of any disease care to the nitty-gritty specifics. And there is no any warrant for saying that this is not right.

But one has to remember that only consultation with your doctor can really help you to make a complete recovery and to avoid supplementary troubles which could come up in case you decide to get a self-treatment. It may concern even to the most inoffensive pills and diets as well. Self-treatment is never considered definitive treatment but can be just a temporary, lifesaving measure while one seeks professional medical help.

A sweet smile of a crocodile

2007-10-30T08:12:00.001-07:00

If we look at the past there were just limited kinds of teeth crowns available. Cosmetic dentists used gold crowns to cover back teeth but at the same time to chew was quite a challenge for people. As for the ceramic-veneered crowns – they looked rather natural but nevertheless the gold durability was an issue that had to be replaced in the future.

Because of an awkward appearance not all people were ready to wear such crowns – especially it concerns youngsters who pay much attention to their appearance and gold crowns was something that “spoiled the outlook”! Moreover, the chewing pressure remained a problem for anyone who had the courage to wear such crowns.

But the medical technology is developing rather fast and there has been a new type of crowns invented – pure ceramic crowns that lack the problems mentioned above. Bonded all-porcelain crowns sometimes also called reinforced resin crowns have gained many supporters as they provided the most natural look and were practically identical to genuine teeth. Teenagers constituted the largest number of clients.

There are two major types of modern ceramic crowns: reinforced composite crowns and pure ceramic ones. Both of them are outstanding for those who want to have an ideal smile! The most exciting thing is the way these crowns are installed: a new bonding technology enables dentists to place these crowns as firmly to the tissue as possible which results in long and hassle-free wear.

Santa Monica dentists were among the first to install pure ceramic crowns and proved to be highly qualified and professional in their sphere. A huge number of references and testimonials prove that reinforced composite crowns have no competitors nowadays. So do you still fear to wear crowns?

Surgery Without Scars

2007-10-14T00:36:00.000-07:00

Hypothesis Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) provides the potential for performance of incisionless operations. This would break the physical barrier between bodily trauma and surgery, representing an epical revolution in surgery. Our group at IRCAD-EITS (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif [Institute of Digestive Cancer Research]–European Institute of TeleSurgery) has been actively involved in the development of NOTES since 2004 with a dedicated project created to develop feasibility and survival studies and new endoscopic technology.

Design NOTES cholecystectomy in a woman via a transvaginal approach.

Setting University hospital.

Patient The patient was a 30-year-old woman with symptomatic cholelithiasis.

Intervention The procedure was carried out by a multidisciplinary team using a standard double-channel flexible videogastroscope and standard endoscopic instruments. The placement of a 2-mm needle port, mandatory to insufflate carbon dioxide and to monitor the pneumoperitoneum, was helpful for further retraction of the gallbladder. At no stage of the procedure was there need for laparoscopic assistance. All of the principles of cholecystectomy were strictly adhered to.

Results The postoperative course was uneventful. The patient had no postoperative pain and no scars, and was discharged on the second postoperative day.

Conclusions Transluminal surgery is feasible and safe. NOTES, a radical shift in the practice and philosophy of interventional treatment, is becoming established and is enormously advantageous to the patient. With its invisible mending and tremendous potential, NOTES might be the next surgical evolution.

Author Affiliations: Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif–European Institute of TeleSurgery, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Laureates of 2007 Nobel in medicine

2007-10-08T07:02:00.000-07:00

The Winner of 2007 Nobel Price in medicine have become members of the international trio from Italy, Great Britain and US. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award The Nobel Prize "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

Mario R. Capecchi - University of Utah; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Salt Lake City, UT, USA. b.1937 in Italy.

Sir Martin J. Evans - United Kingdom, Cardiff University
Cardiff, b.1941

Oliver Smithies - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA. b.1941

USA United Kingdom USA
University of Utah; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Salt Lake City, UT, USA Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
b. 1925 in U.K.

Each of them will get 1/3 of the prize.

Refine Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

2007-09-16T07:26:00.000-07:00

As HemeOmkLinx reports that researchers at the University of Florida have developed a method of effectively identifying subtle leukemic cell variants, thus enabling the selective detection of malignant cells on a molecular level with a high degree of specificity. Using single-stranded DNA or RNA probes, known as aptamers, these investigators have successfully delineated several subtypes of adult T-cell leukemia. The aptamers are capable of assuming various 3-D conformations which bind expressly with the unique sites of distinctive cancer cell subsets.

As a diagnostic tool, aptamers represent a clear improvement beyond the antibodies typically employed for this purpose, which fail to discriminate at this molecular level between populations of cancer cells. The pairing of specific aptamer binding patterns and corresponding patient data may then allow the individualizing of future cancer treatment strategies. Volume synthesis of aptamers can be done inexpensively.
Now you have the power to stop any type of cancer including colon cancer before it starts by getting tested. No more excuses.

Police use DNA.

2007-09-04T12:03:00.000-07:00

American 3SI Security Systems (3SI), the world's leading manufacturer of electronic security systems prepared an extremely unexpected surprise for those criminals who prefer to rob cars of honest citizens in GB. This is Unique DNA Tag Deters Attacks that aid police in identifying and convicting criminals practically immediately after beginning their risky business. A thief should thing many times before he will have decided to steal notebooks, GPS, others somebody else's things, because now he has all chances to look like this:

This red paint is CypherMark, a unique DNA tagging security system which can apply an infinite number of unique codes to a wide variety or liquid and solid materials. Marked items can be identified unequivocally to provide proof of ownership or source and to facilitate the detection of fraud and theft.
Storm of applause!

Dangerous flip-flops.

2007-08-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

There is still summer outside, hot wether and we would like to put out the shues more light and comfortable and easy to put on but. Is flip-flops the best idea for such situation? Now I'm not sure.
"I have seen a wide variety of injuries, pain or strain just from wearing flip-flops," podiatrist Dr. Jeff LaMour of Family Foot Care said.

The slinky sandals offer little protection and support for your feet and wearing them could lead to future foot problems, podiatrists say.

"It's not uncommon for a patient to come in with arch pain, heel pain or even ankle pain as a result of wearing shoes without any support," LaMour said.
Knowing the risks, Jessica Munice said she's not ready to retire her favorite sandals.
"Maybe in a couple years," she said.
The shoes should be worn sparingly, LaMour said.
"If you are really active or doing a lot of walking you would be better off wearing something with more shock absorption," he said.
Even though the warm weather may tempt you to expose your toes, doctors hope just knowing the risks involved with wearing flip-flops may give you cold feet.

Not all flip-flops are created equal. Doctors recommend buying the sandals that have built-in arch supports, though they may cost a little more.
I think there is the reson one never lets to kidsto put on flip flops that weren’t sturdily built with their toes covered nad never let them never let them wear flip flops or sandals without a strap across the heel holding his feet in.

One can allow them to wear flip flop type sandals or slippers only in own garden or housing complex. When kids go out on the town, they still wears sneakers or well-made sandals.

Doping in sport.

2007-07-29T03:48:00.000-07:00

It is too sad but it must be admitted that it looks like the professional sport is not so competitions between sportmen as competition between pharmacological preparations today. Doping is really serious problem among sportmen and since the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency at the European Championships in 1999 more and more athletes are being caught in using steroids, amphetamines, stimulants or cannabinoids. Here is only very short list of some of them.
Ben Johnson have been take "stanozolol" and disqualified. 1993.

Diego Maradona. was tested positive in a drugs test for ephedrine doping. 1994.

Javier Sotomayor, claimed his positive test for cocaine. 1999.

Former Olympic hurdles champion Ludmila Engquist had disappeared after getting positive results from a doping test on Lillehammer's Olympic bobsled track. 2002.

Marco Pantani was one of the best climbers of all times in professional road bicycle racing. His career was dogged by drug allegations in the 1999 Giro de Italia. Then he died of a cocaine overdose in 2004.

It has brought and will bring yet a lot of disappointment and broken lives.
Is there the choise, victory or life?

DNA. Genealogy

2007-07-24T09:09:00.000-07:00

In 1953 molecular biologist Francis Crick announced discovery the secret of life. Researcher was shared a 1962 Nobel Prize along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for their discovery of DNA.

What is this DNA? It's the test examined the nucleotides at specific locations on a person's DNA for genetic genealogy purposes. Last times it has become a very popular thing. We can find out a great number medical testing providers offered a full range of genetic, paternity and DNA testing services. Namely the ancestry tests of Y chromosome (Y-DNA) testing and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing are the most popular now. No wonder that those who don’t know one's genealogy are longing to determine the identification. Autosomal tests allow to measure an individual's mixed ethnic heritage. And this is continuing to be the most popular. Oxford Ancestors was the world's first company to harness the power and precision of modern DNA-based genetics for use in genealogy but now there is no problem to find such medical service placed more close to your.

Pioneering treatment.

2007-07-10T12:56:00.000-07:00

LONDON (AFP) repots that there was approval pioneering treatment for brain cancer for commercial use in Switzerland. "We are delighted to be the first company to reach the market with a personalized therapeutic vaccine for brain cancers, which carry a very bleak prognosis for patients," said Alton Boynton, president and chief executive of Northwest Biotherapeutics. DCVax-Brain is designed to treat cancer by priming the patient's immune system to attack cancer cells. The Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, known as Swissmedic, decided to approve the company's request for a commercial licence on the basis of ongoing clinical data, Northwest Biotherapeutics said.
One wants to be in hope for the first step will be successful.

Will Tobacco Taxes go to health insurance Program.

2007-07-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

I suppose that there is right way to help to children's health insurance Program using Tobacco Taxes as it was suggested by Democrats. Democratic lawmakers will push for $50 billion in new funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program over the next five years. To pay for that increase, they must find new sources of revenue or cut existing programs and it looks that they've found ones.

Still, the question now is not whether the tobacco tax will go up, but how much it will go up, said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, an advocacy group that promotes universal health insurance. Pollack said his assessment was based on 'frequent and relatively recent conversations' with the committees that have jurisdiction over SCHIP. Democrats from the House and the Senate are expected to unveil their respective SCHIP proposals soon.

Be care be healthy.

2007-06-23T03:39:00.000-07:00

By vital statistics americans are living longer. May be the main course of this is more spending on healthcare, some about 2 trillion dollars a year. And that is very right, because if you don't care about your own health who will? "Today, health care is primitive because even the best medications treat only a few of the people for whom they are prescribed", Dr. Eric Topol, a nationally known and controversial expert on heart disease said. "Many individuals who take drugs cope not just with the expense, but with negative side effects that provoke the use of even more drugs."

“We're like the blind man with the elephant,” said Topol, 52, formerly provost and chief academic officer of the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. He resigned from the clinic last year after clashing with colleagues and facing accusations of unethical ties to a hedge fund that traded stock in Merck, whose Vioxx drug he was criticizing.
But the medical science is not asleep too searched new way to prevent illnesses and to treat them.
For example Nanotechwire.com reports on clever work at UCSD on detecting cancer that allow to detect early-stage cancer will require the development of sensitive assays that can identify simultaneously multiple biomarkers associated with malignant cells.

Health Forums

2007-06-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

I want to take a minute to bring your attention to the website myforumabout.com which has some outstanding health forums here. Health related forums are becoming increasingly popular and these ones are sure to make the grade. Whether you have a disease that you need information on or are looking for a support group, be sure to check out these health forums. You'll be glad you did and your mind and body will thank you for it. I know that if I was suffering from a debilitating disease that I would want to find others who were in the same boat. It's not a matter of misery loves company, it's more along the lines of finding people who understand what you're going through. And an online forum is the best place to do exactly that.

Medical Advice Forum

2007-06-11T23:14:00.000-07:00

When it comes to medicine and health, the more advice we receive regarding our ailment or issue, the better. That's why I was pleased to come across this sex advice forum and this general advice forum at Livingwithstyle.com. The LivingWithStyle.com forums advice forums mentioned above are peer operated and allow you to discuss whatever is troubling you with anonymity over the internet.

Let's be honest, there are times that even talking to your doctor about what ails you can be hard. That's why medical forums like these are continuing to gain in popularity. You can get basic advice from peers and then move on if you feel it is necessary. However, you should always be knowledgeable of the fact that these people are not trained professionals and that you should seek the advice of someone who is more knowledgeable if the issue is troubling or serious enough.

How about Dorian Yates Protein Supplements

2007-06-08T04:33:00.000-07:00

Sports supplements are becoming more and more popular amongst anyone interested in improving their lifestyle, their health and well being and of course body image. Regular gym-goers are even turning to such sports supplements as the Dorian Yates Ultimate Formula's, to improve their physiques and body strength. Looking good helps one to feel good, improving confidence, and self esteem. Feeling attractive and positive about one's body has been shown to have hugely positive psychological benefits, with most successful people engaging in some form of strenous physical exercise as part of their lifestyle. The athletic world using Dorian Yates NoX Pump formula recognizes this highly respected athlete as a quiet, straight talking, no nonsense individual and a man of his word who is bringing to the market true performance enhancing sports supplements - ideal for those wishing to boost their performance and improve their physique development.

Summer Flowers. Aromatherapy recipes

2007-06-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

http://digg.com/health/Aromatherapy_recipes
Summer is coming.What a diversity of flowers are surround us, they adorn the life symbolized the abiding love of the Great Spirit for all creatures. But do we think that flowers medicine is perfect , gently therapy, conducive to relaxation and healing?
I'd like to suggest you two aromatherapy health-giving recipes with using essential flowers oil.
1. Potpourri
Blend #1An exotic, citrus blend:
3 drop Jasmine
9 drops Sandalwood
12 drops Bergavot
6 drops Grapefruit
5 drops Oakmoss

2. Blend #4A warming spicy blend:
11 drops orange
6 drops ginger
8 drops cinnamon
1 drop nutmeg
4 drops frankincense
Have a sound mind in a sound body!

Unique Model of Human.

2007-05-29T03:19:00.000-07:00

"Today, this kind of a model is unique in the world. It's the only one that is complete," said Christoph Sensen, director of the medical school's Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics. Canadian researchers have developed the most detailed model of a human.
Advertisement was called CAVEman, using the larger-than-life computer image encompasses more than 3,000 distinct body parts, doctors can view in a booth that gives the image height, width and depth.
Althow it will help to study the genetics of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, muscular sclerosis and Alzheimer's, as said officials at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, which has worked on the system for six years.
"We want to do this so any patient can walk up to a machine with a surgeon in tow who says, 'This is what it looked like six weeks ago and this is what it looked like today. You better get surgery now'."
Next steps include developing versions to sell to hospitals around the world, and adding a touch element to the image.

Try to be happier tomorrow.

2007-05-28T17:44:00.000-07:00

It's really not too hard to try to stay healthy. Everybody knows what to do for. One has to eat right, stay physically active, and not smoke. Unfortunately besides these few examples of good habits that can help you stay healthy we have more reasons for troubles. Life is rough. The World Health Organization estimates that depression will become the second most important cause of disability worldwide (after ischaemic heart disease) by 2020. But our health depends from our psychological, nervous system directly and it's very important to keep it in mind.

Therefore stop focusing on stuff you can't control, and start enjoying the things you excel at! Try to be happy. It's truth that happy people are more resilient, they live longer, they enjoy their work more. They get sick much less finally. Be happier tomorrow.

IBD news.

2007-05-23T02:11:00.000-07:00

Science Daily informed that inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is an umbrella term referring to a group of disorders that cause inflammation of the intestines, including ulcerative colitis, diverticular disease and perianal fistula. Nearly one million Americans experience some form of IBD every year, which is often chronic or recurring. Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week® 2007 (DDW®) looks at preventative measures and potential treatment options for these painful and debilitating conditions. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.

Risk of childhood cancer

2007-05-22T09:06:00.000-07:00

Minor malformations, such as birthmarks, may reflect "altered prenatal development," which could also increase the risk developing cancer, Dr. Julie A. Ross, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and colleagues point out in the medical journal Pediatrics.Overall, 2505 children had a documented definite or suspected birthmark. Out of the whole group, 47 children were diagnosed with cancer before age 8 years and seven of these had a definite or suspected birthmark.
Because of the small number of cancer cases, it's possible that the findings could have arisen by chance, Dr. Ross's group notes. Nonetheless, they hope the results may lead to insights into the cause of childhood malignancies.

Novartis has agreed to stop selling Zelnorm in US

2007-05-07T13:08:00.000-07:00

The FDA ( Food and Drug Administration ) has informed patients and health care professionals that the sponsor of Zelnorm ( Tegaserod ), Novartis Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to stop selling Zelnorm.

Zelnorm is being taken off the market because a new safety analysis has found a higher chance of myocardial infarction, stroke, and worsening heart chest pain that can become a myocardial infarction in patients treated with Zelnorm compared to those treated with placebo.

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2007-05-07T12:57:00.000-07:00

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