• Prostate Cancer diagonsis

    Two new researches have been presented on the health day which supported two different diagnosis of prostate cancer. One advocates that an uncomplicated urine test could be helpful in picking out 50 percent men suffering from prostate cancer while the other is in the favor of combining the risk factors for prostate cancer to envisage the tendency of emerging the disease.Digital rectal exam and PSA (prostate-specific antigen) are the modern methods to diagnose prostate cancer but they are of low specificity. So, a large number of results of prostate biopsies are turned out negative. There must be a better technique of testing to find out the best way of treatment for the men with aggressive prostate cancer and proper monitoring for those who have local or inactive cancer.

    Keeping in view this factor a team of researchers has developed a test that can spot particular fusions of genes related to prostate cancer and applied the test on men with prostate cancer. TMPRSS2 gene and ERG gene are involved in these gene fusions which can be identified from a simple test of urine.About 50 percent of men are found with the specific gene fusions. This urine test is well interrelated with the measures of determining the growth and intensity of prostate cancer.
    Some researchers combined the PSA readings, the size of prostate, previous negative biopsy and the family history together to calculate the tendency of developing prostate cancer.

     
  • Nutritional supplements

    Every now and then there are new studies, some say vitamins supplements can do wonder, others say no. It seems that people are somewhat in a fix when it comes to pick some product for their good health. Recently, most of researchers revolve around a very interesting thoughts that different herbal supplements, fish oils and other natural products like detoxes and probiotic acidohiplus can be the better alternative of traditional synthetic supplements that are widely used these days.

    Secondly, as cliché goes on ‘health is wealth,’ people of all ages have been accepting it in almost all ages and doing their utmost to keep themselves in good health. The more developed people, the more health consciousness. Different health product makers are quite well-aware of that fact and they promote their products in such an impressive way that people are convinced that they will get all from their product what they want to keep their health good and that’s why healthcare products industry is one of the most thriving industries in almost every part of the world.

    No matter whether there are recession-stricken or perky days, people know well that they can make the most of all sorts of days only if they can maintain their health and this is the very reason that consumers spending on various healthcare products in these days of economic gloom are somewhat the same as they were in normal days. Even some studies suggest that people may prefer to buy more food supplements in economic slowdown as some recent data on healthcare industry shows that health-conscious people get more food supplements when under economic pressure and don’t have enough to spend on healthcare because of their tight budget.

     
  • Abortion Major or Minor

    Abortion means murder of an innocent child. Most of the time women get pregnant out of adult enjoyment & latter when they realize their mistakes, it is too late for abortion. In modern medical science several other options are available for abortion, but most of the time it has some harmful side effects. Abortion is such a process which can rupture the normal functions (mental or physical problems can happen) at the end of the pregnancy.It might change the normal activities of ovum or uterus. Diseases like syphilis, tuberculosis can occur because of several drug uses. Abortion is banned in most of the countries, so there is a possibility that it might be performed by an untrained person.

    Several minor effects of abortion are:

    • Infection, embolism, endotoxic shock, damage to the cervix,uterus damage, cervical injuries, Damage to other organs, Scarring of the uterine lining, Diarrhea, hemorrhage etc.
    • Abortion enhances the risk of further miscarriage or infertility or even breast cancer & ectopic pregnancies