Health

Hepatitis B Vaccination Reduces Liver Cancer in Children and Teenagers telusuri

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:10:00 +0000

Implementation of vaccination program of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is universal in infants in the mid-1980s has resulted in a significant decline in the incidence hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among children and adolescents in Taiwan. That's according to a report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute online edition of 16 September 2009.

Hepatitis B is a major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma - a type of primary liver cancer - especially in endemic areas of chronic HBV infection, as occurred in many parts of Asia.

Mei-Hwei Chang and colleagues from Taiwan hepatomas Study Group to investigate whether prevention of HCC after the launch of the program is a universal HBV vaccine to newborns in Taiwan in July 1984 has passed through childhood, and to determine predictors of HCC in the cohort of vaccinated infants when the new born.

The researchers used two national HCC list to collect data from 1958 patients aged six to 29 years old when they were diagnosed with liver cancer between 1983 and 2004. Researchers analyzed HCC incidence according to age and gender of the newborn cohort of vaccinated and unvaccinated using Poisson regression models.

In addition, medical records of 64 patients who developed HCC while 5,524,435 had been vaccinated and those without HCC who were born after the universal program began, compared to the characteristics of hepatitis B immunization in infants and status of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B antigen "e" (HBeAg) in the mother before birth.

laughter therapy young living

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:24:00 +0000

We got home from work, the skins must tighten our face. Understandably routine office with all targets to be achieved is the "pressure" for our skin.

Because when we are stressed, all blood vessels including those under the skin will also be interested. That's why every time we leave the office, Take the time to skin feel the relaxation.

Ardath Rodale, author of Everyday Miracles, says relaxation using the music will be a "blanket" that makes us comfortable throughout the body. When the body is found comfort, we will issue a bending energy throughout the body. At this stage, Rodale added, all body systems running optimally. So not only expelled the stress away, but the forehead muscles that we have to wince throughout the day, too relaxed.

Even with laughter therapy is frequently done, the blood vessels in the face come to feel relaxed and able to carry oxygen in full. And when it happens, we have made the skin cells regenerate perfectly, which means wrinkles will think many times to stop in our faces.

From now on, complete with beauty treatments we listen to music after a 10-20 minute set foot house. Let the music play and listen to anti-aging. Make music as a best friend to banish aging.

Air pollution causes appendicitis referred

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:43:00 +0000

Current air pollution is associated with respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease. Recently, the researchers say that the dirty air you breathe can also cause appendicitis. This new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal October 5, 2009 found that cases of appendicitis increases when the quality of dirtier air.

Dr. G. Gilaad Kaplan, senior author of the study and assistant professor of medicine division gastroenterologist at the University of Calgary in Alberta says that it makes us think about the causes of appendicitis which may be associated with air pollution. Air pollution is a risk factor that can be modified. If this finding is confirmed and we are able to enact unddang to mengendalian better air pollution, cleaner air, then we can probably prevent more cases of appendicitis. Other experts warn that at this early point in this study, the effect is not so clear.

Dr F. Paul Buckley III, assistant professor of surgery at Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine and a surgeon at Scott & White Healthcare Round Rock, Texas said that this provocative, but there's a big difference between linking a number of factors with the disease and prove that These factors may cause the disease, and this study failed to show cause and effect. Buckey doubt pollution reduction will reduce the incidence of appendicitis. No one really knows why appendicitis or inflammation of the appendix and the infection occurs.

Appendicitis cases rose significantly in the late 19th century and early 20th century, when industrialization in control. Case dropped in the middle and later part of last century, when the law enforced clean air. Meanwhile, according to study authors, the countries that recently experienced an increase in the level of industrialization conditions.

A prevailing theory is that the appendix occurs when the opening to the appendix, an organ such as a bag attached to the large intestine, was blocked. Specifically, some experts believe that fiber intake is lower among citizens of industrialized countries resulted in obstruction of the appendix by feces.

But that does not explain the incidence of appendicitis decreased in the second half of the 20th century, says Kaplan. Air pollution is linked to various health conditions, especially respiratory disease and heart disease, including heart attack and stroke.

Kaplan and his colleagues studied more than 5000 adults treated in hospital in Calgary with appendicitis between 1 April 1999 until the end of 2006. This data is cross referenced with the analysis of air pollutants in the week before hospitalization.

Kaplan said that they found individuals are more likely to come with appendicitis in the week with higher concentrations of air pollution, particularly ozone and nitrogen dioxide.

More cases of appendicitis occur during the warmest months in Canada (April to September, when people are more likely outside the home), and men seemed more affected by air pollution than women. It is not clear why there is this gender difference, the researchers said.

Kaplan theorized that inflammation may explain the link, if proven to exist, between air quality and appendicitis. "This is still speculative, but air pollution may trigger inflammatory appendicitis," he said. "We have a few more steps before we can make that statement. We need to confirm and repeat these findings." Kaplan and co-author of the study planned in various cities in Canada.

Last year, Forbes magazine rated as Calgary the cleanest city of the world and Baku, Azerbaijan, as the dirtiest.

Prevent Osteoporosis with Exercise

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:56:00 +0000

While some activities are tested in relation to their ability to stimulate the growth of strong bones, runs scored results three times higher compared with walking and other exercises. Meanwhile, up the stairs and exercises with an exercise bike, almost no impact on anything.

But that does not mean we should leave the gym to walk and chose to run with reason to worry we will weaken bones, says Charles Milgrom, MD, associate professor of orthopedics from the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem. "Insert ran for 60 seconds in the middle of our walk program, is sufficient to signal the bones to increase bone mass, added Charles.

We do need to "forge" our bones harder, suggested Robert Marcus, MD, director of the aging study unit at Stanford University Medical School. So, if we do not move your body start to step on our feet for walking. As we've become accustomed to running, insert the program also ran 60 seconds. If still seems difficult, begin by running for 10 seconds first, which then continued with the improvement bit by bit. With this strategy, we can feel the bone response better, Dr.Marcus added.

Hate running? We can choose other training alternatives, such as jumping, slapping his hand into the air, tennis, tai chi or aerobics that has a greater impact and provide variety in our regular program. The exercises were also able to make muscles stronger and maintain a better balance, so that we can prevent injury and reduce the risk of bone fractures.

Or want to try suggestions from Dr.Milgrom? Enough to vary our walking program with zig-zag method, or walk forward and suddenly step backwards feet. Because of these sudden changes that can help our bones become stronger. And to make our practice to get perfect results, always accompanied the exercise by consuming foods that have a high calcium content as hormone replacement therapy at menopause.

TB Vaccine Enters Clinical Trial Phase

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0000

For the first time in 80 years, the vaccine tuberculosis (TB) has entered a new phase of clinical trials on its efficacy. Although the developers are optimistic about the result, the lung and TB experts warned that not too happy first.

TB vaccine, which was tested in Worcester, a distance of about one hour drive from Cape Town, developed by the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), supported by the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation (AERAS), an organization dedicated to HIV research / TB.

News about the trials of new TB vaccine announced in the International Conference on AIDS Society (IAS) to-5 on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Cape Town, July 2009.

Clinical trials, when the drug would be tested in humans, consists of three stages or phases. Phase-I aim to see whether the drug is safe use in humans, and involve small groups of 20-50 volunteers.

Phase-II, which aims to see whether the drug works well, involving hundreds of volunteers, and is often divided into two subtahap. While Phase-IIa assess how well the drug works, Phase-IIb centered on measures to be given to patients so that drugs worked well.

Test the third and final phase is the assessment of the potential of certain new drugs. Phase III involves a number of volunteers more, sometimes up to thousands of people, which is divided into two groups: one group received the drug, another group given a placebo. Requires up to 20 years before the new drug would get a green light.

Successful drug through Phase-II study did not necessarily continue. In 2007, tests on the Phase-III microbicide gel aimed at preventing HIV infection in women was stopped after scientists found that more participants were infected with the gel users than the placebo group.

Development of TB vaccines will start eight years ago, and will be tested on more than 2,700 children during the next few years. "If everything goes according to plan, the vaccine will be available in 2016," said Jerry Sadoff, President and CEO AERAS.

One of the concerns raised by the community during the conference, is whether people in developing countries - the most burdened by tuberculosis - able to buy the vaccine. "The price of new vaccines will not change, and will reach approximately U.S. $ 8-10 cents per dose," Sadoff said. "The price is comparable to the price of the vaccine Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) today."

The reason behind the development of new TB vaccine for the current BCG vaccine is used, developed in the 1920s, proved to be ineffective to protect adults against TB bacteria. "BCG vaccine is to protect children against the development of severe active TB, but only until the age of 15 years. After that, people no longer protected, "said Harries. "The BCG is that we can not give a second dose after the first dose protection was gone."

In Africa, especially in adults and teenagers who develop TB, often due to HIV infection. People with HIV, because their immune systems are weakened, more vulnerable to TB. "It is estimated that people with HIV and are likely to develop TB 10% per year," Harries said. "People who are HIV-negative, and are likely to develop TB 10% for the rest of his life."

Based on the report Global TB Report 2009 by WHO, in 2007 there are 9.27 million new TB infections, and 1.7 million people worldwide - 456,000 of whom were also infected with HIV, died from TB.

In South Africa, one of the countries with the highest TB burden, from 461,000 cases recorded in 2007, 336,000 occurred among people with HIV. Among the 112,000 people who died from TB, 94,000 were HIV-positive.

Despite the magnitude of the problem of TB in Africa and other developing countries, scientists are just beginning to find a vaccine in about 8-9 years ago. "Once found, BCG proved effective in Europe, and the prevalence decreases rapidly," says Sadoff. "Therefore, people in Western countries think TB was defeated, so as not to create a new vaccine - even though in fact TB is vicious attack in the developing world, particularly among people with HIV," he added.

MDR-TB resistant to two of the best TB drugs, and XDR-TB resistant to most first-line drugs and second. In 90% cases of XDR-TB can be deadly. Both types of TB drug resistance may occur if non-compliant TB patients on first-line drugs, which must be used up to six months.

Needles are not sterile can be deadly

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Syringe injection and still not used directly in the health centers in Africa, endangering millions of patients at risk for infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C. It was warned by health experts on the Africa Health Conference in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

"A shot has been misused by doctors and even shamans, who use it to make money from patients, especially in poor countries where people regard as a symbol syringe healing. In these injections worshipers there is a need to implement regulations to ensure safety, "said Susan Agunda, Vice Chairman of the Nurse in the Ministry of Health Kenya.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in developing countries alone, 16 billion injections are given every year, 90% for medicinal purposes; 50% are unsafe injections. Alarming, about half of used syringes reused in Africa. Agunda recommended that health workers are well trained on handling safety syringes and other injection equipment. "It's not enough just to provide a syringe and not to train health workers on how to use and disposal," he said. "Most health workers still have not closed the back of used syringes, which is very dangerous and can cause some unintentional injury, so that health workers at risk of contracting infections, including HIV."

The conference participants called on African governments to implement national guidelines on the use of needles. Lack of staff was also considered as possible causes of unsafe injections in poor countries.

WHO estimates that approximately 5% of new HIV infections may be due to the use of needles used, and that 58% of health workers to report injuries from needles, so that they accidentally punctured or scratched by an infected needle.

A study of injection safety in Kenya by Nairobi University found that 61% of nurses in health centers surveyed reported needle injury within three months.

Used syringes used by diabetics to inject insulin found in the street and used by injecting drug users, the main drivers of new HIV infections. Agunda reminded that the shamans in rural areas and in urban slums threatening people through the disposal and use of needles used. "In an attempt to reduce their costs may choose to use a syringe and used to infect a large number of people on the circuit, and that is reason enough the need for surveillance of African governments to cope."

Risk factors Deafness In Babies

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:13:00 +0000

According to the Joint Am Comintte of infant Hearing Statement (1994) incidents occurred due to the emergence of deafness among others by:

• There is a family history of deafness

• There Torchs infections (Toxoplasma Rubella Cytomegalo Herpes simplex Siphilis) especially in the first trimester

• Low birth weight <1500 grams

• Hiperbilirubinemia (baby yellow)

• Asfiksia weight (Apgar skore 0 to 4 in the first minute, from 0 to 6 at five minutes

• Use ototoksik drugs (drugs that can damage the auditory system)

• Use of mechanical respirator (ventilator) are usually treated in the ICU> 5 days

• There is a syndrome associated with congenital deafness

• There are abnormalities found in the head neck

• bacterial meningitis (infection of the lining of the brain)

All the above disorders are risk factors of deafness.

1 if there is a risk factor then the possibility of deafness of 10 X, and if there is a risk factor then 3 potential deaf for 63 X

Chlorine in Swimming Pools Increase Asthma and Allergy Risk

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:55:00 +0000

According to a new study, swim in the pool disinfected with chlorine can increase the likelihood that a child will suffer from asthma or allergies. The results of this study published in the online edition of Pediatrics 14 September 2009.

The study found that adolescents who spent more than 1,000 hours of swimming in a chlorinated pool, either inside or outside the home, possibly more than eight times the risk of asthma compared to teens who primarily swim in the pool with a disinfecting method using copper-silver.

Alfred Bernard, a professor of toxicology and director of research at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium said that the presence of a chlorinated pool has a very significant impact on the prevalence of allergic disease in the population studied.

When used properly, chlorine is a disinfectant that efficient and safe for swimming pools. However, if too much chlorine is added to the water or accumulate in the air in the pool room, inevitably result in irritation of swimmer's organs are in contact with water and air. There is now increasing evidence that the effects of these irritants can damage the airways regular swimmers, especially the children most vulnerable and most often swim in a chlorinated pool.

According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, more than 17 million people in the United States have asthma. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath and coughing. This airway diseases can be triggered by several factors, such as cold air, exercise and chemical irritation. Although chlorine has long been recognized as a material pengiritasi airway and trigger asthma, especially in the indoor pool, Bernard studies show that chlorinated swimming pools may play a role in the development of asthma and allergies.

This study included 847 Belgian adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18. All participants had been present in the swimming pool or outdoor room, but with varying levels of attendance. One hundred and fourteen children, was left primarily to swim in the pool with copper-silver disinfection, while the rest swam in the pool with chlorine disinfection.

The number of children with asthma rose in proportion to their exposure to chlorinated pool. Teenagers who swam for 100-500 hours in chlorinated pool has a 80 percent increased risk of developing asthma, while those who swam 500 to 1000 hours runs the risk of more than two times. When teenagers spend more than 1,000 hours of swimming in chlorinated water, the risk of asthma increased nearly four-fold. According to this study, the risk of asthma which currently has more than eight times higher in the group with more than 1,000 hours in a chlorinated pool than those who rarely swim in a chlorinated pool.

The risk of allergies was also increased significantly when the teenager spends more than 100 hours of swimming in a chlorinated pool. In fact, the risk of hay fever and other allergies more than doubled in a significant exposure in chlorinated pools.

Dr. Jennifer Appleyard, chief of allergy and immunology at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, said the study highlights the fact that "asthma and allergies are caused by many different factors, and chlorine may have a potential effect. But this is a very early study, and we do not know what the whole picture."

He said that he did not advise parents to stop taking their kids to swim, even if they already have asthma. "If your kids suffer from asthma and you know that chlorine is a trigger, it's a good idea to try to limit their exposure, but you can not exclude your child from everything and every potential trigger. You must let them be children the child. "

Health care debate a long-running story

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:03:00 +0000

Health care debate a long-running story
Dating back to Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Updated: Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 7:34 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 7:33 AM EDT

WALTER R. MEARS,AP Special Correspondent
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign for a health care overhaul is an intense installment in a long-running story, dating to Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

It did not go well nearly a century ago. Roosevelt made national health insurance an issue in his last, losing campaign for the White House, and successive efforts to get it enacted have lost, too.

The basic issue, affordable health care for all Americans, has not changed. But possible solutions have not evolved either, in part because new proposals seldom build on old ones. Obama's broad, leave-the-details-to-Congress proposal has little in common with the 1,300-page measure President Bill Clinton couldn't even get to a vote in a Democratic Senate in 1993.

The Obama strategy was designed to avoid mistakes Clinton made in confronting Congress with a massive bill written in the White House under the management of Hillary Rodham Clinton and essentially telling the House and Senate to take it or leave it. Clinton threatened to veto any bill that did not deliver universal health care. He got nothing to veto.

The Obama team missed part of the lesson when the president pressed for passage of House and Senate bills before Congress took its summer vacation so that they could negotiate a final version when they reconvene in September. What he got was narrow committee approval in the House, a preface to debate and action after Labor Day. In the Senate, the Finance Committee was trying to meet a Sept. 15 deadline to deliver its bill.

Obama's push for action before the summer recess created a goal the Democrats couldn't meet and a psychological setback he didn't need to risk. He now says that it was no big deal and that what he wants is a reform law by the end of the year, to get all Americans insured and curb medical costs.

That is a big deal, underscored by his aggressive television and traveling campaign to try to build public support — and pressure in Congress — to enact health care overhaul this time.

"Now is the hard part — because the history is clear — every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got," Obama told a town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday. "They use their influence. They use their political allies to scare and mislead the American people. They start running ads. This is what they always do."

Hepatitis B Vaccination Protects against Liver Cancer

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:44:00 +0000

According to new research, vaccination at birth against hepatitis B virus, greatly reduces the risk of liver cancer in adulthood. The findings are published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute online edition of 16 September 2009.

In 20 years of research that followed infants are vaccinated against the liver disease in Taiwan began in 1984, when universal vaccination programs come into force, Dr Mei-Hwei Chang, from the Department of Pediatrics at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and colleagues studied young people who had undergone liver cancer.

The researchers found that only a few people who have been vaccinated will experience liver cancer, and there are possible explanations in most cases, such as not enough doses of vaccine.

The authors conclude that these data indicate that the effectiveness of universal hepatitis B immunization program to prevent liver cancer, has gone beyond childhood and into young adults for two decades.

In the United States, hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for all infants, children and adolescents if they have not been vaccinated previously. Officials recommend that adults get vaccinated if they are at risk of liver cancer. More information can visit the site the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health care debate a long running story

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:12:00 +0000

President Barack Obama's campaign for a health care overhaul is an intense installment in a long-running story, dating to Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

It did not go well nearly a century ago. Roosevelt made national health insurance an issue in his last, losing campaign for the White House, and successive efforts to get it enacted have lost, too.

The basic issue, affordable health care for all Americans, has not changed. But possible solutions have not evolved either, in part because new proposals seldom build on old ones. Obama's broad, leave-the-details-to-Congress proposal has little in common with the 1,300-page measure President Bill Clinton couldn't even get to a vote in a Democratic Senate in 1993.

The Obama strategy was designed to avoid mistakes Clinton made in confronting Congress with a massive bill written in the White House under the management of Hillary Rodham Clinton and essentially telling the House and Senate to take it or leave it. Clinton threatened to veto any bill that did not deliver universal health care. He got nothing to veto.

The Obama team missed part of the lesson when the president pressed for passage of House and Senate bills before Congress took its summer vacation so that they could negotiate a final version when they reconvene in September. What he got was narrow committee approval in the House, a preface to debate and action after Labor Day. In the Senate, the Finance Committee was trying to meet a Sept. 15 deadline to deliver its bill.

Obama's push for action before the summer recess created a goal the Democrats couldn't meet and a psychological setback he didn't need to risk. He now says that it was no big deal and that what he wants is a reform law by the end of the year, to get all Americans insured and curb medical costs.

That is a big deal, underscored by his aggressive television and traveling campaign to try to build public support — and pressure in Congress — to enact health care overhaul this time.

"Now is the hard part — because the history is clear — every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got," Obama told a town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday. "They use their influence. They use their political allies to scare and mislead the American people. They start running ads. This is what they always do."

Short of it, he and the Democrats could have a major political burden going into the 2010 congressional elections, just as Clinton did when Democrats lost the 1994 elections after his health care failure.

An issue that affects all Americans, their doctors, insurers and employers is bound to carry political risk.

Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted national health insurance but, even with his power in the New Deal Congress, he did not dare to tie it to Social Security in 1935 lest he lose the whole program. Harry S. Truman pushed it on a Congress that wouldn't buy it.

While Dwight D. Eisenhower balked at national insurance, he tried to get Congress to support a reinsurance program to buttress private insurers and gain coverage for high-risk patients and the needy.

Congress said no, twice.

John F. Kennedy made health care a major issue in his 1960 campaign. He concentrated on what then was called medical care for the aged, a title that wouldn't play well with the current Medicare set, people now described as senior citizens. He couldn't get it through Congress.

Lyndon B. Johnson did, but even with his legendary legislative skills and the overwhelming Democratic majorities in Congress after the 1964 elections, it took more than a year of hard, sometimes arm-bending persuasion to get Medicare enacted. It was a hard sell with conservative Democrats, not unlike the problem Obama faces now.
That one major victory for government health insurance was an exception to the pattern of starting each attempt from scratch instead of evolving it from what had gone before. When Johnson signed the Medicare bill in 1965 and gave Truman card No. 1, he traveled to Independence, Mo., to share "this moment of triumph" with the president who had first proposed it 20 years before.

It provided government health insurance at age 65, tied to Social Security. Broader coverage, which FDR, Truman and Johnson all would have liked to gain, was beyond political reach.

Not only for LBJ, but also for Republican Richard M. Nixon, who proposed universal health insurance in 1974, seeking to use employer-based coverage along with federal subsidies so that all Americans would be insured. It was to be done by private insurers, not the government. There was bipartisan support until Watergate intervened.

The political perils of change were dramatized in 1988 after Congress enacted a Medicare overhaul that included prescription drug benefits financed with higher fees on upper-income recipients, who rebelled. They protested, demonstrated and even chased the sponsor, then-Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill.

Low vitamin D Increase Risk of Mother to Infant Transmission of HIV and Infant Mortality

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:57:00 +0000

Low vitamin D in women associated with an increased risk of HIV transmission from mother to child (mother-to-child transmission of HIV / MTCT) and infant mortality. It was reported the researchers in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, online version.

"Increased risk of HIV infection or death at birth observed in babies born to mothers with low vitamin D levels at the beginning; level low vitamin D in mothers was also associated with HIV transmission through breastfeeding, and infant mortality is higher during follow-up , "wrote the researchers.

It is known that vitamin D levels may affect immune system function and that maternal vitamin D levels affect fetal growth. Furthermore, supplementation of vitamin D therapy showed an improvement of tuberculosis (TB), which is meaningful when associated with HIV because TB is the only one of the most important causes of illness and death with AIDS.

However, few studies examining the effects of vitamin D levels in pregnant women are HIV-positive and adverse outcome, including birth, MTCT, infant mortality during the early months of life, or the transmission of HIV due to breastfeeding.

Low vitamin D Increase Risk of Mother to Infant Transmission of HIV and Infant Mortality

Low vitamin D in women associated with an increased risk of HIV transmission from mother to child (mother-to-child transmission of HIV / MTCT) and infant mortality. It was reported the researchers in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, online version.

"Increased risk of HIV infection or death at birth observed in babies born to mothers with low vitamin D levels at the beginning; level low vitamin D in mothers was also associated with HIV transmission through breastfeeding, and infant mortality is higher during follow-up , "wrote the researchers.

It is known that vitamin D levels may affect immune system function and that maternal vitamin D levels affect fetal growth. Furthermore, supplementation of vitamin D therapy showed an improvement of tuberculosis (TB), which is meaningful when associated with HIV because TB is the only one of the most important causes of illness and death with AIDS.

However, few studies examining the effects of vitamin D levels in pregnant women are HIV-positive and adverse outcome, including birth, MTCT, infant mortality during the early months of life, or the transmission of HIV due to breastfeeding.

Research on the use of vitamin D supplementation in pregnant women are HIV-positive people in Tanzania gives researchers the opportunity to assess the importance of maternal vitamin D levels of these results.

A total of 884 women who were included in the analysis of the researchers. The majority (80%) had asymptomatic HIV disease. Vitamin supplementation began between weeks 12 and 27 of gestation. However, the provision did not include vitamin D, vitamin levels are assessed at the beginning.

No relationship was found between vitamin D levels and poor pregnancy outcome such as premature birth, or babies born with low weight, or infants born with a small size compared to the age of the womb.

However, maternal vitamin D is low at the beginning (below 32 ng / ml), was associated with a 49% increased risk of fetal death or HIV infection at birth (CI: 95%; 7-109%), compared to infants of mothers with vitamin levels D is enough.

In addition, infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are low 50% greater risk of contracting HIV at six weeks compared to infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are normal (CI: 95%; 1,02-2,20).

After 24 months of follow-up, 30% of infants were HIV-positive. Infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are not sufficient, the HIV-negative at the age of six weeks twice as much risk of contracting HIV from the mother during breastfeeding than infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are sufficient (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 2, 03; CI: 95%; 1,08-3,82).

Overall MTCT rates after 24 months was 46% higher in infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are not enough, compared to infants of mothers with vitamin D levels are normal.

Further analysis by the researchers showed that women with the lowest vitamin D levels are at greatest risk of MTCT (P = 0.01), and the risk decreases as the level of vitamin D in the mother increases.

Finally, the researchers found that low vitamin D in the mother increases the risk of infant mortality during follow-up.

"Vitamin D is known to support the development of the fetal immune system; immune system is stronger perhaps more resistant to HIV infection and may explain the observed decrease in MTCT," commented the researchers.

The researchers continued, "these findings may also be associated with opportunistic infections and diseases less during follow-up and the result is a decrease in mortality. In addition, more and more evidence supporting the role of vitamin D to fight TB infection; TB is one of the major killer of HIV infected population. "

The researchers concluded that if giving vitamin D supplements have proved effective in the study, giving vitamin D "will prove to be a way that is quite simple and inexpensive way to reduce infant mortality and help to prevent MTCT is used in conjunction with HAART."

Finally, the researchers found that low vitamin D in the mother increases the risk of infant mortality during follow-up.

"Vitamin D is known to support the development of the fetal immune system; immune system is stronger perhaps more resistant to HIV infection and may explain the observed decrease in MTCT," commented the researchers.

The researchers continued, "these findings may also be associated with opportunistic infections and diseases less during follow-up and the result is a decrease in mortality. In addition, more and more evidence supporting the role of vitamin D to fight TB infection; TB is one of the major killer of HIV infected population. "

The researchers concluded that if giving vitamin D supplements have proved effective in the study, giving vitamin D "will prove to be a way that is quite simple and inexpensive way to reduce infant mortality and help to prevent MTCT is used in conjunction with HAART."

Response of hepatitis C treatment can be estimated with a genetic test

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:46:00 +0000

The researchers found genes that can predict response to treatment of hepatitis C with interferon and ribavirin pegilasi. It was reported the researchers in the online edition of the journal Nature. According to the researchers, high knowledge of the parent genotype in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the future may become an important element for making clinical decisions about when to begin treatment.

There are an estimated 170 million people infected with HCV worldwide. Treatments that can eradicate the HCV infection is available, but can cause side effects and not always successful. Therefore, required a better understanding of the factors associated with response to HCV therapy.

The researchers studied human genes support the efficacy of HCV treatment. Study sample involved 1137 people infected with HCV genotype-1 (HCV type the most difficult to treat). There, patients were included in the IDEAL study, clinical trials examining the safety and effectiveness of interferon therapy for pegilasi HCV infection.

The researchers found that certain genes are most closely associated with sustained virologic response to treatment. The relationship was most obvious in people of European descent, with patients who have a gene that has a significantly increased chance of treatment response to anti-HCV than patients who did not have the gene (odds ratio [OR], 7.3; CI: 95%; 5 .1 to 10, 4). Genes that also increase the chance of success in the treatment of African Americans and Hispanics, but with a lower level than in whites.

Furthermore, the researchers found that the gene was more associated with treatment response in Americans of European descent than HCV RNA at the beginning or liver fibrosis, a general predictor of HCV treatment response. However, the European Americans and Hispanic descent, two common risk factors is a better guide to treatment response than the presence of genes.

The researchers argue that the discovery of genes that can explain the response to HCV therapy is better observed in white patients than African-Americans.

Some anti-HCV drugs currently being developed. The drug was included PI, and the researchers noted that research is needed to examine whether the gene also affects the response to drugs of this class. The researchers also argued that research should be conducted to determine whether genes play a role in the response to therapy in patients infected with different HCV genotypes.

As the gene also appears associated with eradication of HCV by nature and also the response to treatment, there was the impression "may be the result of genes involved in controlling HCV naturally." The study involved people infected with HCV only, so that still needs to be observed if the genes can predict response to treatment in patients coinfected with HIV / HCV.

Obesity starts from toddler

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Obesity in childhood is formed before a five-year-old child. Ditahun condition compared with the 1980s, the children are more obese. Most of them were overweight before school age. Therefore, the prevention of obesity should begin before children enter school.

EarlyBird Diabetes Study of 233 newborn child until the age of puberty is published in the journal Pediatrics shows, one of four children aged 4-5 years in England are overweight. At birth, the children in the study had the same weight with the average baby 25 years ago.

They grow fat when entering puberty than children with same age in the 1980s. The experts noted, before a fat girl who enters school age, he has gained 90 percent of excess weight, and boys 70 percent of excess weight.

Leadership research, Prof.. Terry Wilkin of the Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, stated, "When they reach the age of five years, kepurusan to control the rate of weight loss should have been taken."

Only, the cause of obesity is still very hard to identify. Said prof. Wilkin, there are factors that must menbuat children become more obese now, that does not exist at the time 25 years ago.

Age children were still very young indicates that obesity is terjdi from home, rather than from the school environment. This also means related to parenting school education than

He believes this diet was to blame. It is possible that the density of calories from food and portion sizes bigger now.

Prof. Wilkin said the strategy to prevent obesity in childhood and its relationship with health problems, such as diabetes, better focus on preschool children. "Rather than focus on school meals, watch television, school activities, and playing games," he said.

However, added, a mandatory measure of height and weight all children in England at the age of school entry (4-5 years) can help. Not only record the national obesity trend, but as a guide for the individual child's risk in the future.

Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer for England, said, "We need to build the foundation for healthy living from a very early age."

"It's never too late. Obesity is one of a number of problems that can medisserius restored to its original state very quickly, "he added.

Meanwhile, David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum insisted, "obesity in children tend to occur because the environment and learned behavior."

Therefore, since early give a good example to the children about a healthy balanced diet. dee

benefits grapes

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:32:00 +0000

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Consumption of wine may help lower blood pressure and improve heart function in lab rats. Mitchell Seymour of Cardioprotein Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, United States, assessing the effects of ordinary grapes on rats with hypertension when given a salty diet.

Some rats were given powdered diet of red wine, green and purple as well as high-salt diet. Others were given grape powder and low-salt diet. "The powder contains the same nutrients in fresh grapes," Seymour said, as quoted by Reuters.

After 18 weeks, mice with a diet of wine, low blood pressure, better heart function, inflammation and signs of heart muscle damage is less than rats that were given salt without wine.

Dr. Steven Bolling of the University of Michigan, adding that the flavonoids found in wine have an effect on blood pressure. In another study, flavonoids showed benefits for the heart. The recommended servings for men 15 grains a day. dee

Life expectancy Cancer Patients

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Mood depression is often experienced by patients suffering from a chronic disease, particularly cancer. Given that the psychological condition of the problem only experienced by most cancer patients are depressed. Ever reported incidence of depression in patients with breast ca by 60%. The prevalence of depression has increased in line with the progression of the disease and symptoms.

A survey ever conducted suggests that the patient had cancer and oncologists believe depression mood can affect the progression of cancer. But there is no valid evidence to that effect. A meta-analysis study that will be submitted latest below evaluate the extent of symptoms and disorders affecting the progression of major depression and life expectancy of cancer patients. Summarized the following:
Study: (Satin. Jillian R, Linden. W, Phillips, Melanie J)
Method: The study meta-analysis
Primary Objectives: assess the impact of depression (including depressive disorders and depressive symptoms) to the progression and mortality of cancer patients.
Results:
Found 5 article (n = 2097) that assess the impact of depression on cancer recurrence (publications between 1992 - 2008)
Risk Ratio symptoms of depression to cancer progression of 1.23 (95% Confidence Interval [CI], 0.85 to 1.77, p = 0.275).

* Found 27 observational studies (n = 9417) that assess the impact of depression on mortality (publications between the years 1990 to 2009). Type of cancer: breast ca, lung ca, ca brain, melanoma, malignant hematology, and so on.
* Risk ratio of increase in depression symptoms mortality of 1.25 (95% CI, 1.12 to 1.40, p <0.01).
* Risk ratio of minor depression / major of the increased mortality of 1.39 (95% CI, 1.10 to 1.89, p = 0.03).
* The impact of depression on mortality seen in the research - research with the monitoring time for 5 years or less (p = 0.001) and in the 5 years (p = 0.024).
* After adjusting for other prognosis factors, depression was still significantly increased mortality prognosis factor.

Conclusion:
Depression is a predictor of mortality, but not progression, of cancer patients. The relationship was statistically significant but relatively small magnitude. The impact of depression on mortality still seen after adjustment, thus indicating a causal role of depression.

Cancer and Mood Depression

Mechanism psychophysiology of depression with cancer journey disregulasi axis includes the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal, especially the diurnal variation of cortisol and melatonin. Depression conditions also affect the immune components that can affect life expectancy. In addition, the state of depression also adversely affect patient compliance with medication.

An animal study showed the onset of symptoms / behavioral depression / anxiety in mice with mammary ca. An increase in cytokine production in the hippocampus and proinflamasi which induces symptoms of peripheral / depressive behavior. Corticosterone levels, which inhibit the cytokine signal delivery, having suppression.

State of depression, either because the tumor directly and psychological impact, it is often the case and needed separate attention, either by the family and clinicians. In addition to an adverse impact on quality of life, compliance with therapy, was from a meta-analysis of studies on depression negatively impact a patient's life expectancy (although the impact is relatively small).

The cause of cervical cancer

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:03:00 +0000

In developing countries like Indonesia, cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. In the world, every two minutes a woman dies of cervical cancer. So, no longer look at the threat of this disease in one eye. Here are 13 things you must know about cervical cancer.

1. What is cervical cancer?
Cervical cancer or cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the cervical region. That is, part of the uterus that lies at the bottom, which opens to the vagina. Starting from the cervix, if it has entered an advanced stage, this cancer can spread to other organs throughout the body.

2. How dangerous this disease?
World Health Organization (WHO) stated, the current cervical cancer ranked top among the various types of cancer that causes death in women in the world. In Indonesia, every year more than 15,000 detected cases of cervical cancer, and approximately 8000 of these cases end in death. According to WHO, Indonesia is a country with the number of cervical cancer patients the highest in the world. Why be so dangerous? The reason, cervical cancer appears as an enemy in a blanket. It was difficult to detect until the disease has reached an advanced stage.

3. What causes it?
Cervical cancer caused by HPV (Human Papilloma Virus). This virus has more than 100 types, where most of them are harmless and will disappear by itself. HPV virus types that cause cervical cancer and the most fatal consequence is the HPV virus types 16 and 18. However, other than caused by the HPV virus, abnormal cells on the cervix can also grow due to exposure to radiation or chemical pollution that occurred in the long term.

4. How transmission?
HPV transmission can occur through sexual relations, mainly to do with changing partners. This virus transmission can occur either by transmission through genital to genital, oral to genital, or manually to the genital. Therefore, the use of condoms during intercourse is not too powerful to prevent transmission of HPV virus. Because, not only transmitted through the fluid, the virus can move through the touch of skin.

5. What are the symptoms?
In the early stages, this disease does not cause symptoms are easily observed. That's why, you are sexually active are highly recommended to do a pap smear test every two years. Physical symptoms of this disease is generally only experienced by advanced stage cancer patients. Namely, the emergence of pain and bleeding during sexual intercourse (contact bleeding), excessive discharge and abnormal bleeding outside the menstrual cycle, and the drastic weight loss. If the cancer has spread to the pelvis, the patient will suffer from back pain complaints, difficulties in urination, and kidney enlargement.

healthy exercise for diabetes

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Want to avoid the risk of diabetes? There is nothing wrong every day jogging or even sprinting for 30 minutes. Apparently running sports brings many benefits.
"Actually it was only obtained health by running for 7.5 minutes per day," said Dr. James A Timmons from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Timmons and his colleagues studied 16 men aged 20 years. They were asked menjalanai six sessions of physical exercise. Each session consisted of among others sprint for 6 to 30 seconds, interspersed with four minutes rest. After resting they are asked to run again. So the total exercise reaches 17 to 26 seconds.

The exercise was conducted for two weeks. They were also given a sweet solution every day. Apparently their sugar levels remain normal. According PAdalah glucose penelitia laruta usually raise blood sugar levels above normal.
Timmons recommended that every person doing intensive exercise every day. Besides sports jogging can do is cycling fast or running up the stairs two times a week.
Special diabetics aged 20 to 40 years, recommended increasing physical activity gradually under medical supervision. "The key we are better 7.5-minute workout routine each day rather than running for 30 minutes but only once a year," he said / Reuters / itz

Dialysis at home is a good choice for Kidney Disease Patient

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:12:00 +0000

A recent study found that people with kidney disease can do any treatment at home after undergoing a kidney transplant from a donor. The researchers in Canada to 12-year follow-up study of 1239 patients who received kidney transplants from dead donors or who received hemodialysis at home at night.

4195 people from Canada on the waiting list for a transplant, 71 percent need kidneys. According to research, while waiting for donors, about 2 percent of the people on the waiting list died.

This study found that patients who receive care at home, survival rates similar to those that have been transplanted. On the night hemodialysis, the patient's blood is cleansed of toxins normally be removed by the kidneys during sleep. Treatments last six to eight hours, much longer than in conventional dialysis centers, up to seven times a week.

According to a study published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation September 2009 edition, survival rates for those receiving kidney transplants from living donors is better than doing dialysis at home and recipients of the deceased.

Hemodialysis at night may be a "bridge to transplant" or "suitable alternative" for a transplant if a patient's risk is too high to do the transplant or can not find a suitable donor because the donor organ shortage.

Dr. Christopher Chan, medical director of home hemodialysis at Toronto General Hospital and a professor at the University of Toronto said in a news release that the study allowed him to actually answer what the patient had asked him for more than a decade: "What mean nighttime hemodialysis for my life? "Now I can tell them that this is a good choice of specific dialysis received the transplant from a donor who had died.

In this study, the researchers take into account age, race, diabetes status and duration of treatment with conventional dialysis center using data from the U.S. Renal Data System.

Study findings for 12 years, 14.7 percent of hemodialysis patients at home at night died, compared with 14.3 percent for patients with transplants from donors who have died and 8.5 percent for patients who have received live donor transplants.

According to Chan, although previous studies have shown that patients who receive transplants have survival rates better than those on dialysis, these findings suggest that repeated and long dialysis provided by nursing night may have advantages over conventional dialysis.

After trying conventional dialysis, Florence Tewogbade, 27, switched to hemodialysis in the home in April 2008. According to this Tewobage has changed his life. Now he can work, go to school, waiting for the future and become independent.

Balance your spine

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:30:00 +0000

Learn how to sit, stand, move and exercise in a balanced manner to reduce the neck and lower back pain to a great extent
STRETCHING regularly and correctly is one of the three ways to protect the spine and keep the body in baance. Its relaxing effects contribute significantly to your ability to recuperate and tone up. Who hasn't suffered from low back pain or stiffness at one time or the other? Even children are not immune to it.
The spine has three natural curves and a change in one curve affects the other two. The thoracic or middle back area is less mobile because of the ribs attached to it. This results in the neck and lower back being very closely related and an injury to one can often harm the other..

For example, if you suffer from whiplash injury and the neck muscles are not repaired immediately, the lower back tries to compensate it by balancing the body and thereby over-stressing itself. This can decrease the pressure on the nerves of the neck and decrease the pain. But, unfortunately, now the lower back is prone to injuries due to the increased stress on it.
A similar situation often occurs if the lower back is injured. The neck compensates the injury by providing the balance needed ot the body. This can lead to chronic problems later unless the muscle damage is repaired fast. Prevention, therefore is very important.
The pain in the neck and lower back is usually caused by stress or damaged muscles putting the spinal vertebrae and other related bones out of their normal positions.
The solution is three-fold. The first step is to learn how to sit, stand, move and exercise in a balanced manner to minimise muscle stress. Here are few tips for proper sitting:

...Sit with your feet flat on the floor. Knee should level with or slightly above your buttocks. Sit as straight as you can and then relax about 10 to 15 minutes after that. This is a good sitting posture. When writing, use a flat surface and look downward instead of flexing your neck forward. When reading, keep your book in such a way that your head remains straight. Muscles in front of your neck, if kept tight, will restrict the blood flow to the thyroid gland which would slow down the metabolism. This would make the bodya gain weight.

...The second important factor is to stretch the muscles that contract while sitting. The muscles involved are the hamstring muscles (back of the thigh), the muscles in front of the neck, the hip flexures and pectoris minor muscles (in the chest). The hamstring muscles can be stretched by standing with the legs straight and bending forward while maintaining your normal lower-back curve. Stretching can be done a few times a day for 30 to 40 seconds or more. The most effective time for stretching is when the muscles are warm from exercise. Stretching is extremely powerful in reducing stress and tension and in preventing lower back and neck pain.
...The third important part is the musculoskeletal structure of the body. The exercise programme should be balanced as to give exercise to all the muscles. For example, many give exercise to the chest muscles ignoring the back. This can lead to an imbalance in the shoulder joints, neck and upper-back. Properly balanced training techniques can prevent the back and neck pains to a great extent.

Health Tips How to Overcome STRESS

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Try out juices of grapes, watermelon, banana, jack fruit, lemon and pineapple during summer.
STRESS cannot be done away unless the cause itself is removed. Good health and stress free life is all that one craves for. According to the American Dietary Association, the main hazard of stress is not that we need more nutrients, but that anxiety or pressure can cause us to neglect proper dietary habits. Prolonged periods of stress lead to depletion of Vitamin C, B and D. Food changes our brain chemistry in a way that it influences our moods.

The key to our emotion lies in certain chemicals in the blood stream. These are called neuro-transmitters. These are produced from the nutrients in the food. Hence, the need for nutritious and balanced diet is a must to free ourself from the physical and mental diseases and relieve stress. A balanced diet should be defined from the nutritional point of view. As one which contains different types of food in such qualities and proportions; the micro-nutrients like minerals and vitamins and macro nutrients like proteins, fats and carbohydrates is adequately met. And a small provision is made for extra nutrient to withstand short duration of leanness (infections in the body).

cure sore throat

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Researcher Dr Carl Heneghan, deputy director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford UK, said that the people who get a sore throat, a single dose of oral steroids effective in relieving pain in 24 and 48 hours. Dr. Heneghan menakankan that this treatment is not recommended for mild sore throat, which will disappear by itself. If you appear in the ER and you have really experienced severe tonsilitas and you experience pain at all, additional treatment is to take one dose of corticosteroids, he explained.

Corticosteroids reduce pain by reducing inflammation and is usually prescribed for conditions such as asthma and shortness of breath. According to British researchers, its use as a pain reliever for sore throat can help reduce the need for antibiotics, which are often overused and helps create resistant bacteria.

For this study, groups of eight experiments Heneghan analyze the effectiveness of corticosteroids compared with placebo in adults or children with severe sore throat. In total, the study included 743 patients, 369 of whom are children.

The researchers found that patients given an antibiotic corticosteroid appears three times as many who reported no pain 24 hours after treatment compared with patients given antibiotics and placebo.

After two days of this effect is less clear, which indicates that only one dose of corticosteroids needed, according to the researchers. In addition, corticosteroids also reduce the time required to remove the sense of saki about six hours.

Tim Heneghan noted that significant pain was observed only in adult patients and not in children who received corticosteroids. In addition, the researchers found that pain medication other no difference in the results of research. "What we do not know is: Are corticosteroid replace antibiotics?" "That's the topic of research we want to do next," Heneghan said.

Dr. Julie Wei, an assistant professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, agrees that the steroid works well in relieving sore throat pain is severe, but he warned that antibiotics are no substitute for corticosteroids, which treat the infection, not pain. "The use of steroids should not substitute for antibiotics," said Wei.

Single-dose steroid use is a common practice, said Wei. "For example, all child patients who undergo tonsillectomy and adenoidektomi get a single dose of intravenous kortikostreroid at surgery, because steroids are anti-nausea and anti-vomiting medication most potent that we have," he said.

Single-dose steroid also helps improve the eating and drinking, and feel good, said Wei. "Also, people in the emergency room or the children admitted to the throat abscess usually get a dose of steroids if they experience severe pain or difficulty opening their mouths because of inflammation. ENT experts have suggested this unusual," he added. "The point is, corticosteroids are commonly used in anesthesia, ER, etc., but does not replace antibiotics,"

Green Tea is good for your Health

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:42:00 +0000

The more processed the leaves are, the darker the tea becomes, which means that green tea has had the least processing.
Processing of green tea usually involves quickly steaming the leaves, while black and red teas are usually dried, crushed and fermented which makes them seem stronger and more potent.
Don’t be misled by this visible characteristic, as many believe that the closer it is to its natural state, the more valuable the medicinal and healing properties.
Tea is known to have polyphenols, an antioxidant which helps protect our bodies from free radical damage.
ORAC score is used to measure antioxidant amounts, and tea scores higher than many fruits and vegetables. Because of this, you should seriously consider including tea in your daily diet.
In addition to the prevention of unwanted blood clotting, studies indicate that polyphenols may lower cholesterol levels and when consumed four to six cups a day my reduce gastric, esophageal and skin cancers. A quick internet search of the benefits of drinking green tea will reveal a seemingly endless list of ailments, aches, and pains that may be relieved through the daily enjoyment of this non-prescription drink.

Some of the more popular ailments that can be cured are cancer, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and impaired immune functions.
The benefits of drinking green tea also extends to the treatment of digestive disorders, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s while raising metabolism and increasing fat oxidation. It has also been found to help prevent tooth decay by killing the bacteria which causes dental plaque.
No matter what reason you might have for drinking green tea, it is clear that you can derive some benefit from daily consumption.
It should be stated that many of today’s more popular “herbal teas” may or may not be tea at all because these products have already been blended with herbs and spices with other plant parts included for flavoring.
These do not contain the health promoting qualities of Camellia Sinensis. Check the ingredients carefully and make sure that you are buying the product that you expect.

How can we combat mental illness ourselves?

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:30:00 +0000

How can we combat mental illness ourselves? These tips can help

1. Be communicative. Express your feelings in a non-threatening, non-combative way to significant people in your life, including your family, friends and business associates. Don't wait for the pressure to build and then blow your top. Catch the anger or concern before it causes you stress.
2. Find time for yourself, alone, every day even if it's just 10 minutes in the bathtub or 20 minutes walking or working out at the gym. Spend the time in constructive ways such as meditating, listening to soothing music or just enjoying nature.

3. Don't try and keep up with the Jones'. Seeking material things is healthy until it becomes more important than human things such as sharing time with loved ones, enjoying a sunset or catching some rays at the beach. Find work you love and do it with a happy heart.
4. Build a network of trusted friends with whom you can share ideas, joys and sorrows. Remember to give as well as to receive.
5. Avoid unhealthy relationships that make you feel "blue" or inadequate. No matter what the price, get out of these situations.

6. Do some physical activity every day, whether it be gardening, washing the car, walking or working out. Studies have shown physical exertion releases endorphins in the body that produce good feelings.
7. Share life with someone you love.
8. Be true to yourself.

The vaccine is Better than Drugs Antivirus for Flu

noreply@blogger.com (Main Menu) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:33:00 +0000

A new study from England showed that healthy adults tend to survive better during flu season by getting a flu shot than giving antiviral drugs to make them feel better. The study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 8, 2009 edition.

The research team led by Dr Jane Burch found that Tamiflu (oseltamivir), a flu drug made by Roche, and Relenza (zanamivir), which is made by GlaxoSmithKline, will relieve symptoms faster no more than a day than no drug at all.

Although the researchers did not compare the benefits of the vaccine with superior antiviral drugs, vaccination is known to have preventive benefits. Some are correct at the time where there is a "match" between vaccine and circulating influenza viruses. Thus, more people are eligible to be vaccinated (which is more suitable choices for healthy adults).

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) UK asked Burch, at the University of York, and his team to review 26 scientific studies to determine the effectiveness of oseltamivir and zanamivir as a treatment for adults in the seasonal flu. NICE is responsible for assessing drugs reimbursed by the state health service. Flu-like symptoms disappear within a half up to one day earlier than those not given drugs.

With results like that, Burch and colleagues wrote that the treatment with the drug seems to be the most appropriate thing for the action. They believe that a better policy for a healthy adult is to extend the recommendation that all healthy adults can get it. In fact, these findings may be relevant to pandemic influenza A (H1N1) is currently happening.

As a result of this work, NICE now recommends using antiviral treatment for influenza in people deemed at risk. This includes people aged 65 or older, and anyone older than 6 months with a serious health condition, such as chronic disease that affects the lungs, heart, liver, or kidney disease, and diabetes or people with suppressed immune systems .

Their main concern is to reduce the risk of complications associated with influenza, such as pneumonia or eksaebarsi of other diseases, although studies have not shown such benefits.

In addition to vaccination, the team from Burch register approach may be more effective than starting treatment an antiviral drug once in a sick person. This includes the people who had the flu, the vaccine began to give the drug immediately and make drugs freely available vaccines. They also suggested that family physicians have rapid diagnostic flu test. Thus, the patient will not be treated with drugs that do not will have an effect if they do not have the flu