I’ve blogged before about the irresponsible way that stomach amputation is being promoted as a “cure” for diabetes when the promoters’ own data show that it doesn’t cure it, but merely slows it down for a few years. If you haven’t read that post, I’d urge you to read it. You’ll find it HERE.

But I bring up the topic again because this latest study–a rodent study–both confirms the temporary nature of the fix and suggests that many people could achieve the same effect without risking a surgery whose kill rate is so high that if it were associated with a drug, that drug would never have made it through the FDA approval process. (Surgery doesn’t need to go through any approval process.)

The doctors who profit mightily from selling obesity surgery are NOT going to tell you that there is a drug which is far safer than the surgery and which controls blood sugar and provides dramatic weight loss to one third of those who take it: BYETTA.

Byetta is a synthetic form of GLP-1. It dramatically slows stomach emptying, making it very hard to overeat. For many people it changes the brain’s way of processing hunger, making them not feel like eating. It may stimulate insulin release, too.

An FDA report found fewer than 100 cases of pancreatitis in the hundreds of thousands of people who had taken Byetta, which sparked a panic among doctors who stopped prescribing it. For some reason, the fact that 25 people out of every 10,000 who have weight loss surgery die shortly after having the surgery went unnoticed by these same doctors. That same statistic is rarely mentioned by the gastric surgeons they refer their patients to, either.

To date, no sure test exists for diagnosing the disease: Alzheimeir’s disease can be confirmed only at autopsy. Dr. Zaven Khachaturian, director of the Office of Alzheimeir’s Disease Research at the National Institute on Aging, calls the possibility of such a test “an exciting development”. However, experts caution that Harvard team’s results with 58 volunteers must be duplicated in larger studies.

GRAY AREA

According to a recent study, Boston University Medical Center researchers have found that individuals who had 50 percent of their hair turn gray by age 40 were four times more likely to develop osteoporoses. While more studies are needed to confirm these findings, researchers speculate that the link between the conditions may be related to genes that control premature graying and bone mass.

Says chief of the department of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism Dr. Michael F. Holick:”The association between premature graying and osteoporosis provides people with either premature graying or a family history of it with an opportunity to seek advice from the doctor on how to prevent the ravages of osteoporosis.

ASTHMA ALERT

Every year about 5000 Americans die of asthma-related complications. Looking into difference between those who survive and those who die, Japanese doctors found that people with asthma have reduced capacity to sense when they’re in danger.

Most asthma suffers automatically compensate for low oxygen levels in the blood (due to spasm of the airways) by breathing more deeply and more rapidly, but those who have near-fatal attacks fail to do so. They don’t recognize that they were in trouble until almost too late; thus they delay taking medication and seeking medical attention.

Severe asthmatics should know how to monitor their daily exhalation rate with peak-flow meters. If the rate falls by more than 20 percents of their personal best, they should know at what point to take extra medicine, to call the doctor or go straight to the hospital. They should also consider wearing a Medic Alert bracelet identifying their problem.

CANCER UPDATE

1. Lumpectomy. New data from breast cancer studies show that a woman who discovers the disease early and chooses a lumpectomy has as good survival chance as a woman opting for mastectomy. The information update was reported at a U.S. National Cancer Institute conference on the state of breast-cancer treatment. Last spring, falsified reports by a doctor participating in a large trial evaluating lumpectomy’s effectiveness raised questions about the study’s findings: lumpectomy, with follow-up radiation, produced survival rates as good as the more drastic mastectomy. Researchers said that conclusion is supported by reports from worldwide trial and from an audit of original lumpectomy trial. Says Dr. William Wood of Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine: “Lumpectomy’s effectiveness appears to stand on the basis of these data”.
2. Gene Flaw in Prostate Cancer. Johns Hopkins University researchers have found what appears to be most common genetic defect linked to prostate cancer. In nearly all of 91 prostate cancers studied, the defect apparently blocked the production of an enzyme that protects against environmental carcinogens. Earlier studies have shown that high level production of protective enzyme is stimulated by consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as Brussels sprouts and broccoli. “We can’t advice people to just eat Brussels sprouts,” adds Nelsons, but these vegetables are a clue we’ll chase after aggressively”.

OF MICE, KIDNEYS AND MEN

Polycystic kidney disease affects hundreds of thousands of people. Victims are born with thousands of microscopic cysts, the growths accumulate fluid and enlarge over three to five decades, and they can eventually destroy the kidney. In the last stages, patients need dialysis and kidney transplants. So far, no known treatment has stopped the disease’s progression. But now researchers, working with mice having naturally occurring form of the disease, have shown that the anti-cancer drug taxol halts the loss of renal function. Compared with untreated mice that died four to five weeks after birth, those that received taxol lived several months.

Though taxol is not yet practical for treating humans with disease, Dr. Jared Grantham, nephrologists at the University of Kansas Medical Center, says, “This is the first time a medication given to an animal with polycystic kidney disease has stopped the codition.

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Today I have good news for you, I got this information from the best resource called foodmag……which inform that; Professor Connie Katelaris from University of Western Sydney who is Professor of Immunology and Allergy, and Campbell town Hospital Allergy Specialist, has said that Australia has topped the list in food allergies as most people believe they are suffering from the same. Australians seem to be the world’s worst food allergy hypochondriacs, blaming food for their bloating, fatigue and other symptoms, when in more than 90% of cases there is no evidence their diet has anything to do with it. However statistics tell a different story. One in 10 Australians believes they have a food allergy, but just 1 to 2% has a true allergy to some types of food. Immunologists and other doctors agree that food allergy is being overblown. “What’s more, these imagined food allergies are far more likely to be reported by women than by men,” Professor Katelaris said at a meeting of dermatologists. “And food allergy is a diagnosis favored by alternative practitioners, despite the lack of evidence showing that it is to blame. Although some of the difference can be accounted for by less dangerous but still unpleasant food sensitivities, both categories still seem to be over-diagnosed. As a result, many people are needlessly limiting their diets in the false belief this does them an element of good. In fact, they are simply putting themselves at risk of malnutrition and further ill-health. According to Professor Katelaris, the popularity of these diagnoses comes from the fact that they are easily understood by the average person, and easily reacted to. An immune system problem, which is far more complicated, I not as ‘attractive’. Although genuine food allergies affect about 6% of children, most of these cases are usually resolved. About 97% of children allergic to dairy products shed their sensitivity by adulthood, while two-thirds of children outgrow allergy to eggs and 20% lose their allergy to peanuts. Professor Katelaris told a recent medical conference that the phenomenon is being fuelled by the popularity of instant tests offered by some alternative medicine practitioners, who purported to detect food allergies by analyzing hair or blood, but are in fact entirely bogus.

Planning for Treatment

What types of treatment are available and which might be appropriate for us.

SURGERY

Breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy), mastectomy, and lymph node dissection, and what to expect from each.

CHEMOTHERAPY

We should get it, how it works, different types, side effects, and how to manage them.

RADIATION THERAPY

What it is, who it’s for, advantages, side effects, and what to expect when you get it.

Hormonal Therapy. The link between hormones and breast cancer and how different groups of drugs—including ERDs, SERMs, and aromatase inhibitory.Targeted Therapies

Including Herceptin: How they work, who should get them, how they’re given, side effects that my be happen, and the complete major studies.

COMPLEMENTARY & HOLISTIC MEDICINE

How complementary medicine techniques such as acupuncture, meditation, and yoga could be a helpful addition to your regular medical treatment. Includes research on complementary techniques and ways to find qualified practitioners.

TREATMENT FOR SIDE EFFECT

A complete reference list of side effects and their explanations must be organized. Building Long-Term Health is to be more important action

Why it’s so important to stick to your treatment plan, take the full course of medications, and continue with regular tests and doctors’ visits to keep and protect yourself healthy into the future

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One theory of the cause of migraine is a central nervous system (CNS) disorder.

The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. In migraine, various stimuli may cause a series of neurologic and biochemical events which affect the brain’s vascular system. Serotonin syndrome occurs when the body has too much serotonin, a chemical found in the nervous system. Serotonin syndrome symptoms may include restlessness, hallucinations, loss of coordination, fast heart beat, rapid changes in blood pressure, increased body temperature, overactive reflexes, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Serotonin syndrome may be more likely to occur when starting or increasing the dose of a triptan, SSRI or SNRI.

This problem is very bad for woman, because woman has much job that use thinking…

Dr. Kenneth R. Bridges, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School says that
“Sickle cell disease and thalassemia are very different disorders . “Both diseases affect red blood cells, but they manifest themselves differently. Each condition has two abnormal genes, but beyond that they have little in common.”

To understand a diagnosis of sickle cell anemia or thalassemia, you have to learn about the origins of each disease. Hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying element of red blood cells, helps your tissues and vital organs receive oxygen. Hemoglobin contains two distinct proteins: alpha and beta and other related that diseases.

sexually transmitted diseases (orSTD s) are a varied group of infections that usually are passed from person to person by sexual contact. Some also spread from mother to child during pregnancy or childbirth. Widespread around the world, STD s are particularly common among people in their teens and early twenties. STD s range in severity from pubic lice, which usually cause only discomfort, to AIDS, which has caused millions of deaths in a worldwide epidemic.

Most STDs primarily affect only the sexual organs and other parts of the reproductive system. That is true of chlamydial (kla-MID-i-al) infections, gonorrhea (gon-o-REE-a), genital herpes, genital warts, and trichomoniasis (trik-o-mo-NY-a-sis). Other STDs may enter through the sexual organs but affect other parts of the body. That is what happens in AIDS and syphilis.

Besides AIDS, some STDs can have serious complications, especially for women. Chlamydia and gonorrhea often cause no symptoms in women (and sometimes in men), which means they can easily go untreated. But

If syphilis goes untreated in men or women, it can cause fatal heart problems, as well as blindness, deafness, and insanity, many years later.

All Infections of the Genital Tract Spread by Sexual Contact

No. For instance, yeast infections of the genital tract usually do not involve sexual contact. Most often, the yeast (a kind of fungus) spreads from a person’s own skin or intestinal tract, where it does no harm, into the person’s genital tract, where it can cause symptoms. So a person could get such an infection even if he or she had never engaged in sexual activity. The most common of these yeast infections is called candidiasis (can-di-DI-a-sis).

The Risk for STDs

Just about anyone who has sexual contact with another person can get an STD. People who are infected with one STD are likely to have other STDs as w

ell. Once cured, they also are at higher risk of getting infected again.

STDs are particularly common among young people, aged 15 to 24. Experts see several reasons for this: Young people are less likely to be married, so if they engage in sex, they may tend to have more sexual partners than older people. Young people more often fail to use condoms during sexual activity, even though condoms can protect a person from most sexually transmitted diseases. Young people may be too embarrassed, too short of money, or too worried about privacy to get regular checkups or to get prompt medical treatment for STDs. As a result, they may stay infected—and may be able to infect others—for longer than necessary.

In general, people run a higher than usual risk of getting infected if they begin sexual activity at an early age, have a number of sexual partners, do not always use condoms, and do not get regular medical checkups. But even a person who has sex only one time, with only one partner, can get an STD if his or her partner is infected. The only clear way to prevent getting an STD is to abstain from sexual activity.

The way of STDs in Spreading

People with STDs often do not realize they are infected, an

d so they spread the disease to others, including people they love most—wives, husbands, and children.

Sexual contacts

These diseases can spread through sexual contact between people of the opposite sex (heterosexual sex) or between people of the same sex (homosexual sex). Sexual activities that can spread STDs include sexual intercourse, anal sex, and oralgenital sex.

Other routes of transmission

STDs also sometimes spread in nonsexual ways. Many of them—including

HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and genital herpes—can be spread from mother to baby during pregnancy or childbirth. HIV can also spread through breastfeeding.

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can spread if an infected person shares needles, or if contaminated blood is given in a blood transfusion. In the United States, strict testing has made blood transfusions extremely safe, but the risk may be higher in some other countries.

STDs that cause sores on the skin, such as genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid^*, can spread sometimes if the sores touch another person’s skin. The sores also can serve as a way for HIV to enter the body, making infection with the AIDS virus more likely. Preventing or treating these sores is important in the prevention of AIDS.

Most STDs cannot be spread by contact with an object, such as a toilet seat. One exception is trichomoniasis, which is thought to spread sometimes through towels or bat

hing suits recently used by an infected person.

What Happens When People Get STDs?

Symptoms

Several of the most common of these diseases—chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis—can cause pain during urination and a pus-like discharge from the sexual organs. In many cases, however, there are no symptoms in these illnesses. Several other STDs cause sores or blisters in the genital region. These include syphilis, genital herpes, and chancroid. The symptoms of HIV/AIDS include getting frequent fungal and parasitic infections.

Diagnosis

From the symptoms and a look at any skin sores that may be present, a doctor may suspect an STD. Tests of various kinds can usually tell for sure which infection, if any, a person has.

Because chlamydia and gonorrhea are very common in young women, but often cause no symptoms and can lead to infertility, doctors recommend that young women who engage in sexual activity get tested routinely for these illnesses so they can be treated.

In addition, anyone whose sexual partner has been diagnosed with an STD, or whose partner has symptoms of an STD, should be tested and treated if they are also infected.

Treated

STDs can be divided into curable illnesses and illnesses that can be treated but not cured.

Curable illnesses

Curable illnesses usually are caused by bacteria or parasites. These include chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and chancroid, all caused by bacteria, and trichomoniasis, caused by a parasite. These can be cured with medication. Syphilis and gonorrhea, in fact, often can be cured by a single swallow or shot of medicine.

treatable illnesses

Ilnesses that are treatable, but not curable, usually are caused by viruses. These include HIV/AIDS, genital herpes,

and genital warts. These cannot be cured with drugs, because the viruses remain in the body. But, in most cases, medication or other treatment can reduce symptoms. In the case of people with HIV infection, medication can increase the life span and the quality of life.

Prevented

Abstinence and safer sex

The only sure way to avoid getting an STD is not to have sexual contact with anyone (called abstention or abstinence).

For people who do engage in sex, the safest relationship is when two people who are not infected have sexual contact only with each other. The problem is that it is impossible to know for sure whether someone is infected or not. People may not always tell the truth about their sexual behavior in the past—or they may mistakenly think they were protected in the past. Many people with an STD do not know or believe they have one.

That is one reason why health officials recommend that people who engage in sex always use latex condoms unless they are trying to get pregnant. Using latex condoms can lower the risk of getting an STD, but the condoms must be used properly, and they must be used every time a person engages in sexual activity.

Education and awareness

At the public health level, education is an important part of preventing STDs. Awareness about the need to prevent STDs has greatly increased in recent decades, largely because of the emergence of AIDS. Information about how to prevent STDs is now widely published in the media and taught in schools. Young people are being urged to abstain from sex or to use condoms if they are sexually active.

Contact tracing

In addition, when a person is diagnosed with an STD, doctors or health officials try to locate the person’s sexual partners so they can be tested and treated. This kind of confidential “contact tracing” is done without revealing the infected person’s name. It prevents the person’s sexual contacts from unknowingly spreading the disease.

But the only sure way to prevent getting an STD is to abstain from sex.

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