How to decide the problem of androgenic alopecia?

July 8th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Treatment of androgenic alopecia – a long and costly process, which requires a lot of patience and a willingness to carefully follow doctor’s advice. Despite the fact that the issue of androgenic alopecia in women and men are not yet fully understood, researchers propose many effective ways to slow down hair loss.

Studies have shown that androgen levels in women with androgenic alopecia are often higher than normal. This suggests that the pathogenesis of androgenic alopecia plays a major role sensitivity of follicles to the action of DHT. In men, DHT-sensitive follicles located on the top and on the border of hair growth, which explains the characteristic shape of the male baldness. Female androgenic alopecia is diffuse and rarely leads to baldness.
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Pushing Western medicine with fear in India

July 8th, 2011 by admin No comments »

f you sleep less than six hours a night, you’re increasing your risk of developing or dying from heart disease by 48 percent. At least, that’s what U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott would have 1.2 billion people in India believe.

But doctors say the grim message, which appeared in a newspaper ad in India earlier this year, is baseless. In fact, they worry Abbott’s marketing campaign may be the bigger threat, scaring healthy people into buying potentially harmful sleeping pills they don’t need — such as the company’s own drug Zolfresh.

“They are implying that taking sleeping pills may help you live longer, whereas the data shows that taking sleeping pills is associated with increased mortality,” said Dr. Daniel F. Kripke, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego.
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Treatment of allergic reactions at home

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Allergies reaction became more popular with every year. That’s why at the market there are presented various medication, which will be useful for those who fight allergy and those who prevent it.

Treatment at home will be inadequate in the event of severe allergic reactions; here you should seek immediate medical help. Shortness of breath, wheezing, swelling of soft tissues of the face and mouth, inability to swallow and hives – main signals of severe allergic reaction.
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Colon cancer deaths down except in Mississippi

July 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America — except in Mississippi, health officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report that echoes earlier findings of a national decline in colon cancer deaths. Rates fell by as much as 5 and 6 percent in a few states — Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Mississippi was the only state that saw no real decline, according to the CDC report. “The big picture is screenings are up, death rates are down, and even more progress is possible,” said the CDC’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden.
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Decreasing of high body temperature in children

July 1st, 2011 by admin No comments »

Increase in body temperature – the most typical manifestation of not only SARS, but any infectious disease. The organism itself stimulates, while developing a substance that will compete with the pathogen. The temperature of a child can rise for different reasons: colds, flu, teething, childhood infections, and even banal overexcitation.

Every child is unique and tolerates fever in different ways. There are kids, calmly continued to play at 39 degrees, but there are and those, who at only 37,5°C almost lose consciousness. Therefore, there can’t be universal recommendations as to how long one must wait in order to start treatment.
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Medicare confirms payment for prostate cancer drug

July 1st, 2011 by admin No comments »

Medicare officials confirmed Thursday that the program will cover the $93,000 price tag for prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that typically gives men suffering from an incurable stage of the disease an extra four months to live.

The decision from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid essentially reiterates an earlier proposed ruling that the biotech drug, made by Dendreon Corp., is a “reasonable and necessary” medicine. As expected, the government will cover the cost for men who meet the drug’s approved criteria: those with prostate disease that has spread throughout the body and has not responded to hormone therapy or radiation. The government will not pay for alternate, or so called “off-label,” use.
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Anti-smoking program with Zyban

June 25th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Generic Zyban – an antidepressant, fundamentally new drug in treatment of smoking. This drug does not contain nicotine, which acts directly on the mechanism of nicotine addiction, which affects the dopaminergic and noradrenergic pathways involved in the formation of nicotine dependence and quitting. The therapeutic effect of Zyban begins before the patient stops smoking. While its reception, in patient greatly reduces the desire to smoke. Zyban constrains and the addition of body mass in patients after smoking cessation.
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Lifestyle Changes Might Alter Breast Cancer Rates

June 25th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Lifestyle changes such as losing weight, drinking less alcohol and getting more exercise could lead to a substantial reduction in breast cancer cases across an entire population, according to a new model that estimates the impact of these modifiable risk factors.

Although such models are often used to estimate breast cancer risk, they are usually based on things that women can’t change, such as a family history of breast cancer. Up to now, there have been few models based on ways women could reduce their risk through changes in their lifestyle.
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Propecia and alopecia: what is the link between them?

June 21st, 2011 by admin No comments »

Androgenic alopecia is hair loss, often genetic, caused by one of the following reasons: the excessive content of the male sex hormone DHT (dehydrotestosterone) and increased sensitivity of hair follicles to DHT. Dehydrotestosterone, affecting the hair follicle, causing reduction in the growth stage, so that hair prematurely enters the stage of rest, followed by the deposition stage.

Often accompanied by signs of androgenic alopecia oily seborrhea and acne (blackheads), possible excessive hair growth on face and other body parts. In men, androgenic alopecia usually starts in front of the hairline and moving toward the top. In women, there is progressive thinning and loss of hair over the head and especially in the hair roots.
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Docs overtesting for cervical cancer virus

June 21st, 2011 by admin No comments »

Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer. The days of one-size-fits-all screening for cervical cancer are long gone. How often to get a Pap smear — and whether to be tested for the cancer-causing HPV virus at the same time — now depend on your age and other circumstances.

But a government study reports Monday that a surprising number of doctors and clinics aren’t following guidelines from major medical groups on how to perform HPV checks, suggesting a lot of women are getting unnecessary tests. That wastes money and could harm women who wind up getting extra medical care they didn’t need, says Dr. Mona Saraiya of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the research.
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