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Does Smog Increase Organ Rejection Risk

Feb
05

Date: February 5th, 2016

People who receive lung transplants are at a higher risk of rejecting the new organ, and of dying if they live in areas that have more air pollutants than if they lived away from busy roads. The World Health Organization released data stating that people who live in places with higher air pollution were ten percent more likely to reject an organ after a lung transplant than people who lived in areas with a better quality of air.

The Study on Organ Transplant

Researchers recently conducted a study on five thousand patients who had undergone lung transplants. The time period for the study was between 1987 and 2013. The data collected in the study on the patients and their living environments was used to determine that the lung transplant patients who lived in high pollution areas were more likely to have difficulties with their transplants or die from complications after their surgery.

Workout Practices that make Psoriasis Worse

Feb
04

Date: February 4th, 2016

According to Delphine Lee, MD who works as a dermatologist with Providence St. John’s Health Center, it is more important for people with psoriasis to get proper exercise than it is for people without the skin condition. You may not know that people who have psoriasis tend to be overweight, or to become overweight. The added pounds cause the condition to actually be worsened and a vicious cycle begins.

People who have psoriasis have a higher than average risk of cardiovascular diseases and conditions. Exercising will help these individuals to maintain a healthy weight, and to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system.

When do Breast cancer Drugs help Infertility?

Feb
03

Date: February 3rd, 2016

Many people do not realize that the breast cancer drug letrozole, or Femara, is frequently given to women who are experiencing infertility due to a condition known as polycystic ovarian syndrome. The women with polycystic ovarian syndrome were more likely to have successful pregnancies when they took letrozole than when they took clomiphene for infertility.

When the cause of the infertility was unclear, the letrozole did not have the same positive effects according to a study cited in the New England Journal of Medicine last month.

Tips on When to Keep a Kid Home from School

Feb
02

Date: February 2nd, 2016

All parents have had the mornings when they wake the kiddos up for school and one of them says they are sick, or threat they feel bad. At these moments, the parent is faced with the question of whether the child is too sick to attend classes, or if they could go to school and would likely feel better in a little while.

Parents feel guilty because if the child stays home they will likely need to hire a sitter, and if the child was not too sick to attend they have missed an important day in their educational instructions. On the other hand if the parent sends the child to school and the child is sick they risk being judged as a bad parent by school staff, and they risk exposing all of the other children at the school to an illness.

Fall Foods and Menopause

Feb
01

Date: February 1st, 2016

Menopause is a naturally occurring process that women go through as they age. Hot flashes, irritability, and other symptoms that come with menopause can be lessened by knowing what foods to eat, and what foods to steer clear of while you are going through “the change”.

By eating the proper balance of food you will gain a better control over your body’s needs. You will be able to control your hot flashes and thus live a little more comfortably during this time in your life.

How Music Affects the Heart

Jan
31

Date: January 31st, 2016

Doctor Bunch recently wrote a review article that was published in the European Heart Journal that describes the ways that music can help in both the prevention of, and the treatment of, heart conditions.

Stimulation and Relaxation of the Heart

Two nervous systems control the stimulation and the relaxation of the heart muscle.

  • The sympathetic nervous system is adrenalin mediated. This nervous system is responsible for increasing our heart rate and for the squeezing the heart does.
  • The parasympathetic nervous system is what is responsible for slowing the rhythm of the heart down so that it can rest, or relax.

BLS Certification Is Important for Business Organizations

Jan
30

Date: January 30th, 2016

To grow a business, it is right potential need massive diligent work and duty to meet due dates before time. Taking care of weights, gatherings, meetings, measurements, overall revenues, expense issues, market investigation, and so on, encompasses the specialists unfailingly. Every single such issue causes different wellbeing issues, and one of the wellbeing issues is the heart failure. Businessmen and office workers are the most conspicuous casualty of the capture because of substantial weight and work weight and having an employee with BLS Certification can help save lives.

The heart failure rate

Compulsory wellness activities and legitimate eating routine do help in keeping the heart failure rate low however, can’t be stayed away from totally. The better route is to decide on the answer to battle issues instead of maintaining a strategic distance from the issue.

Blood Pressure Drugs and Type II Diabetes

Jan
29

Date: January 29th, 2016

A group of Spanish researchers discovered that when people took their blood pressure medications at night rather than in the morning, they were cutting their risk of developing type II diabetes by as much as half.

The link between high blood pressure and type II diabetes

A large portion of the people who have high blood pressure suffer from a condition where their blood pressure does not lower during the night when they are at rest like people with normal blood pressures do. The doctors and researchers refer to this as “non-dipping” blood pressures.

Possible Drug to Treat “Superbugs

Jan
28

Date: January 28th, 2016

What is a “Superbug”?

The term superbug is applied to deadly infections that are antibiotic resistant. When patients seek medical attention for the symptoms of one of these deadly infections, the doctors are at a loss as to how to treat them. Doctor’s end up treating the symptoms, but have difficult times killing out the infection that is creating the complications.

What “Superbug” is Ebselen able to control?

The research study shows that when mice who were infected with C. difficile, a deadly intestinal infection, were given Ebselen that there was major improvement in their conditions.

The Role Sleep Apnea Plays in Depression

Jan
27

Date: January 27th, 2016

New research studies have concluded that people who suffer from a condition of sleep apnea has a greater risk of being depressed. The use of a CPAP to apply positive pressure on their airway can reduce the effects of the depression.

What is Sleep Apnea?

When a person has difficulties breathing when they are sleeping, or when a person has short periods where they stop breathing while they are asleep, doctors say they have sleep apnea.