This is usually the time of year when people make New Years resolutions to make better health choices, lose weight, work on their marriages, and many other resolutions. The American Lung Association is encouraging people to stop smoking as part of their resolutions this year. As most know, smoking is extremely bad for your health and is a leading cause of death by lung cancer for half of all adults who are smokers.
There are many ways that someone can quit smoking. Most smokers who choose to quit try to go about it by going cold turkey, quitting without any support system in place. The majority of those who choose this method of quitting usually fail. The American Lung Association highly recommends that someone gain a support system whether it be through a smoking cessation class, friends or family, or a regular meeting group. There is also prescription (more…)
As we all know, cancer has always been a big thing for everyone to be aware of and is not considered a very beautiful thing. Being aware of the many types of cancers that exist within this planet’s atmosphere is vital to the survival of the human species. Nevertheless, there may be a few or it may be that even many say and truly believe that it is the earth’s way of controlling its population.
One cancer taken very much into consideration is cervical cancer. This cancer, cervical cancer, has even managed to be recognized especially in the month of January. For cervical cancer is not famous for being very good at presenting itself as in its developing stage. Unlike many cancers, cervical cancer appears in the cervix area and will eventually begin to allow itself to be detected through the simple symptom of vaginal bleeding. It would be very nice to say that this is just the beginning but in most cases cervical cancer is known for being detectable mostly during the serious and advance stage of this horrible disease. However, much like many cancers, cervical cancer is something that can be treated if done correctly.
Women are a very important part of life and deserve the right be aware. January being Cervical Cancer awareness month is a very thoughtful way to appreciate ones health and the health of many others’. Thus dedicating this Month of January to all the women out there and advising them to be careful of such malignant cancers is a great way to be on the alert.
January has been designated as Cervical Cancer Awareness month. Approximately 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed each year. The American Cancer Society offers suggestions at www.amercancancer.org to help women become aware of this disease.
Cervical cancer is not easy to detect. The symptoms may not appear until the cancer is in an aggressive advanced stage. Regular Pap Smears, which are presently the only method of detection, are encouraged in the fight against Cervical Cancer.
Cervical cancer is caused by the Human Papillomavirus or HPV. The HPV can attack females at any time during years they are sexually active.
There is new hope on the horizon for an old failed hormone treatment for obesity. A new study was published this week in the journal Cell Metabolism that shows the natural hormone Leptin, first discovered in 1994, when combined with two FDA-approved drugs, may be able to help overweight people lose weight by keeping them from eating too much.
Leptin is a hormone that helps suppress the appetites of people, and showed great promise in human weight loss trials over ten years ago. It was discovered, however, that obese people became resistant to the hormone after a short period of time, therefore making it ineffective. Researchers, led by Dr. Umut Ozcan of Children’s Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School may have (more…)
Many people in the United States of America are overweight. Obesity is a big problem because so many Americans eat junk food. Most Americans do not exercise; they spend a majority of their free time watching television.
Nutritionists have said that some people who have too much fat on their bodies and are overweight do not burn off fat and calories the way that people who have a normal weight do. Many Americans have tried different types of diets without positive results. People lose a few pounds and then they end up gaining back the weight they lose or even adding more weight to their bodies. This is (more…)
A study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that when surgeons look over a comprehensive checklist before beginning a surgery, patient complications and death are greatly reduced. Eight hospitals in several countries have participated in this study. Hospitals in the study were located in places like Manila, Amman, Seattle, Toronto, London, Auckland and Ifakara in Tanzania. Complications were reduced by more than thirty percent, while patient death was reduced by more than forty percent. These checklists are similar to the ones used by airline pilots before taking off.
Although many of the items on the list are common sense, doctors say (more…)
President Elect Obama is hopeful that the Senate will pass this resolution so that he can sign it into act when he is inaugurated, saying that not only is it a benefit to us in this time of crisis in the economy but it is also the moral obligation to those who need the assistance.
If the resolution is passed by the Senate then it is expected for the taxes imposed on ciggerates to be raised by sixty-one cents to one dollar a pack to help for the extra money that would be used to expand the program to more children. The bill that is also being sent before the Senate is saying that a tax increase on tobacco should be put into play.
On Friday, Colorado Senators has allowed a resolution asking for the health program to help out needy children with health insurance to be sent forward. If passed this would allow for an additional $31 million to be towards the SCHIP program over four and a half years. President Bush vetoed this same resolution last year saying that he had the concern of socializing medicine being a result of the program.
The resolution is now in front of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cover an additional 4 million children who are in need of the health care program on Wednesday. There are currently 7 million people using this benefit, most of which are children. If the resolution is (more…)
At Cincinnati’s Children’s Medical Center, along with 5 other medical centers, researchers took on the task of giving gastric bypass surgery to 78 teens ranging in age from 13 to 21 years of age. They were chosen based on the fact that their bodies were nor receptive to the hormone insulin. Insulin helps the body to metabolize food into energy. Also all of the teens that had the surgery were overweight by at least 100 pounds for their ideal weight, height, and age. They were monitored for one year and showed some surprising results.
In the eleven teens that were treated by Cincinnati’s Children’s Medical Center all but one (more…)
There’s no lack of irony in the fact that pregnancy, the very agent of life, is one of the leading causes of death in the developing world among women. According to UNICEF’s 2009 State of the World Children report, approximately 99 percent of deaths around the world are the result of pregnancy and complications from childbirth in developing countries, and the risk of death during pregnancy is 300 times higher for mothers in developing countries than in their developed counterparts.
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