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Continue use of Biphosphonate after an atypical index femur fracture increase fracture in the contralateral femur
Those with atypical index femur fracture should not continue use of biposphonate because recent study found that this could increase the risk of fracture in the contralateral femur. This caution reported at annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2012, after the researchers from Kaiser Permanente, California, examined Kaiser’s database involved 126 patients with atypical femur fracture in 2007, 2008, and 2009, which is more than 50% of them have been continued bisphosphonate therapy after the first atypical fracture. And because of this very moment there was an increase of continuing of bisphosphonate therapy after the first atypical fracture, the study authors suggested to stop it or it will give a great chance for the fracture in the contralateral femur. While based on the results of their study, compared with continuing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bone
Hypertension remedies and its alternatives
Hypertension is a risk factor that plays important role in developing coronary heart disease. If uncontrolled, hypertension can cause complications to the brain causing stroke, affecting the kidneys and heart. The risk to the heart can reach over 70% for the swelling of the heart (left ventrical hyperthropy), narrowing of the coronary arteries (coronary artery disease), or combination of both. All those complication risks would increase the rate of cardivoscular death or heart failure. Drugs commonly prescribed for hypertension include diuretics, beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, vasodilators, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers. Despite its ability in lowering blood pressure with various mechanism from all type of those medications, use of these medications should be prescribed by a doctor because it has side effects that can be fatal. For example, beta-blockers … Read entire article »
Filed under: Circulatory System
Causes of absence of menstrual period (Amenorrhea) in young woman
Amenorrhea is one of menstrual problems in young woman that characterized by the absence of menstrual period other than abnormal and excessive menstrual bleeding. Although this disorder can be caused by many factors such as drastically weight loss and less intake of calories but still vigorous in exercise resulting hypothalamic dysfunction or health problem in brain areas, side effect of oral contraceptives, or effects of severe bone loss, a new study shows if increasing prolactin levels (normal levels for woman and man are less than 500 mIU/L and 450 mIU/L) in the blood or known as Hyperprolactinemia (HP) aslo plays an important role in causing amenorrhea, especially secondary amenorrhea. This said by researchers from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, after … Read entire article »
Filed under: Menstruation
Cure ringing ears or Tinnitus
Basically, the ringing ears or Tinnitus is not a serious problem because this disorder may disappear by itself. This is usually caused by an impact of hearing loud sound or noise, dirt in the ear, infections, or the presence of air pressure that strong enough to the ear. However, in some individuals, this disorder can be a constant and long lasting. In this case, it can reduce the quality of life and can even worsen the condition of being deaf if not treated. This condition is usually associated with nervous system of the ear and brain tissue associate with the ear, as well as blood vessels in those organs (ear and brain). In severe cases, some Otolaryngologists recommend Niacin to treat tinnitus. However, there is no scientific evidence that shows niacin can help … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ear
Causes and cure for male pattern baldness
As previously announced the results of research done by researchers from King’s College London and GlaxoSmithKline, that even they have identified two genetic variants in Caucasians as well as chromosome 20 to increase the risk of male pattern baldness, but it remain difficult to find a cure for male pattern baldness due to this factor. DNA abnormalities that cause parents and children have pattern baldness is a difficult thing to overcome before knowing how this gene works. But, of many cases of hair loss and baldness in both men and women, in general, the role of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that causes hair follicle to shrink and inhibit the nutrients needed by the hair is a common source of the occurrence of hair loss and pattern baldness. If you have no family history with premature … Read entire article »
Filed under: Hair
Woman is 5 times at the risk of developing thyroid disease
Thyroid diseases are the diseases that arise due to abnormality activities in the small gland in the neck, just below the Adam’s apple. These diseases were more found in women. The prevalence is 5-7 times than in men. Thyroid diseases including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and thyroid cancer. Until now, yet it can be concluded clearly the cause of this risk in women. One of the possible occurrence of these cases is hormonal factors. This disease seems related to an autoimmune reaction. In this condition, the body attacks the thyroid gland because it is considered as foreign cells that enter the body. This causes the cells in the thyroid gland is dead and can not produce thyroid hormones. While the problem of stress, is not as an originator, but a factor that will make things worse. Autoimmune reactions can be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Thyroid
Drug adverse effects from Anticoagulants and Diabetes meds causes almost hundred thousands of hospitalization
Several studies have shown adverse drug events of emergency hospitalization from several types of drug classified as insulins, warfarin, oral antiplatelet, and oral hypoglycemic agents both alone or in combination. However, most of those studies established outside of the United States. By using national database to access the incidences of emergency hospitalizations due to adverse drug events, recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 24, 2011, said that most of anticoagulants and diabetes medications both alone or in-combination causes almost hundred thousand emergency hospitalization in adult and older patients. According to the findings (ref), 67% of an estimated 100,000 emergency hospitalization of senior each year caused by those medications and almost of half (33%) caused by warfarin. Interestingly, the drug classified as red-flagged causes only less than 7% of … Read entire article »
Vaginal prolapse therapy with robotic sacrocolpopexy more cost and longer than conventional laparoscopy
In a recent prospective randomized surgical trial in gynecology, the researchers found that convention laparoscopy for vaginal prolapse therapy still lower in cost and takes shorter than robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy in operating time. The trial involved 78 women with stage 2-4 post-hysterectomy vaginal prolapse, and randomized to robotic sacrocolpopexy or laparoscopic. Reported in Obstetrics and Gynecology this month, the comparison between these procedure as follows: - Robotic sacrocolpopexy need 67 minutes longer than conventional laparoscopic in operational, including more longer in the time of anesthesia, total operating room, total sacrocolpopexy, and total suturing. - Robotic sacrocolpopexy resulting greater pain than laparoscopic at weeks 3 to 5 after surgery. - More longer of NSAIDs use (20 days) than laparoscopic group (11 days). - More higher in cost ($16,278 with robotic sacrocolpopexy vs. $14,342 with conventional laparoscopic). Since robotic sascrocolpopexy … Read entire article »
Filed under: Vagina
Potential treatment to prevent lesions of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM)
Currently, there is no treatment that can prevent the lesions of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) or its maturation, which is characterized by grossly dilated capilaries. CCM or cavernous angioma itself can lead to vision or hearing problems, seizures, hemorrhages, and strokes, while current available treatment only in complex vascular surgery. However, the researchers from Chicago Medical Center seen if Fasudil, a Rho kinase inhibitor approved in Japan for the treatment of cerebral vasospasm has a good potential in preventing those lesion development, although it requires additional experiments before initiation of clinical trials. The results of initial experiments conducted on mice showed overall CCMs and individual caverns significantly fewer after treated with 100 mg/kg/day of Fasudil from weaning to 5 months of age compared with placebo, including smaller diameters of lesion. However, the senior author … Read entire article »
Filed under: Pulmonary circulation
Penis enlargement: what should you need to know?
Often we heard or seen an ad that is able to enlarge the penis without surgery or with surgery so that both the length and diameter of the penis will increase significantly. Among men, many of them think if they have micro penis is not manly and not favored by women so they have tried various ways to enlarge penis size. Unfortunately, not a few who later regret due to a mistake in choosing a method in penis enlargement, having erectile dysfunction and even lead to amputation if the damage difficult to repair. Before you decide to enlarge penis size, you should know that woman’s sexual satisfaction is not determined by the size of the penis, nor sexual satisfaction for the man himself. An ability of penis erection actually have more dominant role in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Penis
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