Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Gombe First Lady Offers Free VVF Surgery To Women

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The wife of the Gombe State Governor, Hajia Adama Dankwambo has introduced a health assisted project scheme that offered free Vesicular Vagina Fistula (VVF) surgery to women across the state in Gombe Specialist Hospital. The Special Assistant to the first Lady on media, Alh. Hassan Adamu said VVF, has caused untold health challenge to some women in the state especially in the rural areas. Alh. Hassan said the project was planned to give VVF treatment free of charge to about 50 women drawn from 11 local government areas of the State. He...
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The Dangers of Yo-yo Dieting

2:41 AM samizares
What is Yo-yo Dieting? Yo-yo dieting is extreme dieting. You generally lower your caloric intake so much that you are essentially starving yourself to lose the weight you want to lose. This might seem to work for the time being; of course, if you lower your caloric intake, you will lose weight. However, as soon as you go off of the diet and start eating again, you will gain the weight right back and maybe more. Crash diets can be extremely harmful to your health, and can cause ineffective weight loss. Most people who crash diet end...
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Lower death risk seen with heart bypass

2:14 AM samizares
Older patients with clogged heart arteries may have a little lower death risk over time if they have bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem. In a bypass operation, doctors move healthy segments of blood vessels from other parts of the body to create detours around clogged arteries supplying blood to the heart. Angioplasty repairs the damage through a tube pushed through a blood vessel. A tiny balloon is inflated to flatten the clog and a mesh scaffold, a stent, is placed to prop the artery open. Researchers compared...
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Early dose of glucose may stop heart attack

2:05 AM samizares
Patients showing heart attack symptoms who received a mixture of glucose, insulin and potassium from paramedics were half as likely to go into cardiac arrest or die than those who did not receive the dose, a study found. Researchers trained paramedics to administer the treatment after determining with an electrocardiograph-based instrument that a patient was likely having a heart attack. The results of the study were presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago. Although the treatment did not stop the heart attack from...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

14-Year-Old Girl, Dies After Drinking 2 Energy Drinks

9:49 AM Anonymous
A 14-year-old girl from Maryland died last December after downing two Monster energy drinks in a 24-hour-period, according to news reports, and the incident is stirring concern over the safety of the beverages for kids.It should be noted that the girl, Anais Fournier, had a heart condition, called mitral valve prolapse -- which means that one of her heart valves has malfunctioned. The National Institutes of Health reports that the condition is usually harmless, and as many as one in 10 people has a minor form of the condition.After she drank two...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Bottled water may boost kids tooth decay cos 'it isn't fluoridated', dentists say

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It turns out that many dentists and government health officials suspect that the practice of skipping tap water in favor of bottled water may be contributing to rising rates of tooth decay in young children.When the dentist had to fill six cavities in her 4-year-old son’s baby teeth, Amy Wilson was shocked.The New York City mother of three scanned her family’s habits, trying to figure how Seamus, now 7, could have developed such tooth decay so early.“We said, 'No, no, no, they don’t have candy or gum or soda regularly,'” recalled Wilson, 42,...
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Blood test could predict heart attacks: US study

4:19 AM samizares
Todaysgist-Lagos. Some US researchers have found oddly-shaped blood cells in heart attack patients, indicating that a blood test could help predict whether a patient is at risk of an imminent cardiac emergency.The study by the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) found that the endothelial blood cells from heart attack patients are abnormally large and misshapen, sometimes appearing with multiple nuclei. That could make them reliable indicators of an impending heart attack, according to the study published this week in Science Translational...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Want An Asthma-Free Child? Get A Pet While Pregnant

4:23 PM Anonymous
Mothers who spend time with pets during their pregnancy are less likely to have children with allergies and asthma, a study has revealed.But the race of the child - and how they were delivered - also plays a part.Researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that babies who have indoor prenatal pet exposure have a pattern of lower levels of the antibody Immunoglobulin E, or IgE, between birth and their second birthday.IgE is linked to the development of allergies and asthma.Levels of the antibody were, on average, 28 per cent lower during...
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Eating Red Meat Linked To Premature Death

4:21 PM Anonymous
A new study links eating red meat with chronic disease, cancer and early death. It found that reducing meat consumption to just 1.5 ounces per day could prevent one in ten early deaths in men.The study, 'Red Meat Consumption and Mortality' was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 12, and is the work of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The Telegraph reported researchers followed 100,000 people for around 28 years.The study "found that for every serving of red meat - equivalent to 3 ounces (85 grams)...
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Losing the fight against the flab? It's your mum's fault! Research shows we are programmed to be fat while in the womb

7:22 AM Anonymous
If you can’t shift those extra pounds, no matter how hard you try, blame your mother.Research suggests we can be programmed to be fat while still in the womb, with a mother-to-be’s lifestyle affecting the health of her baby for years to come.It is thought that her diet, the amount she exercises, whether she smokes or drinks alcohol and even which pollutants she is exposed to can alter the DNA of her unborn child. The changes are not to the letters of the code of life itself, but to its ‘punctuation’. These chemical marks can activate, silence...
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Greedy gene’ that makes you eat more even when you are full is uncovered by scientists

7:10 AM Anonymous
The secret to staying slim may be all in your genes.Scientists believe they have found the ‘gluttony gene’ which fails to tell your brain when you are full.In tests on mice, they showed that a mutation on a single gene broke down communication in the body and led to non-stop eating and rapid weight gain.But the good news is, they hope identifying the gene could help with treatments for obesity which affects nearly one in four adults in the UK.Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre in the U.S. studied variations in the Bdnf gene in...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

7 things you need to know to keep kids safe online

10:49 AM Anonymous
In the past ten years, the amount of time our kids spend online daily has tripled; online screen time has become a regular part of even our younger kids' lives. (Four in ten 2- to 4-year olds and half of 5- to 8-year-olds now use smartphones, video iPods or iPads). Though there are clear benefits, the Internet also poses unique parenting challenges. Fortunately, there are clues that help us monitor our cyber-kids. These seven tips will help you know what to look and listen for – and keep them safer online.1. Tell kids you will be online and...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

White rice may increase your risk of diabetes

2:10 PM samizares
Eating white rice regularly may raise your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.The results showed that people who ate three to four servings of white rice a day were more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than people who ate one to two servings a week. And the more white rice eaten, the higher the risk of Type 2 diabetes; the authors estimated that the diabetes risk rises by 11 percent with each increased daily serving of white rice. The study suggested an association, not a cause-and-effect link. Neither doctors nor patients...
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Fertilizer chemical linked to br*ast cancer

1:44 PM samizares
Ingesting higher levels of cadmium, a metal found in fertilizers, may be linked to an increased risk of br*ast cancer, a new study from Sweden suggests.The results showed that postmenopausal women with a relatively high daily dietary cadmium intake had a 21 percent increased risk of br*ast cancer. The major sources of cadmium in the diets of women in the study were foods that are generally healthy — whole grains and vegetables. These accounted for about 40 percent of the cadmium consumed.The reason for the link may be that cadmium can cause the...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Crazy birth control side effects.

9:00 AM Anonymous
Hormone-based birth control often comes with side effects that can range from slightly annoying to bad enough to make you switch. You may not know what you can tolerate until you've given a couple of them a try. But here are some solutions for the most common problems. Headache, dizziness, br*ast tendernessBe patient. "These side effects seem to go away after you've been taking the Pill for a while," says Hilda Hutcherson, MD, an ob-gyn professor at Columbia University, in New York. If they don't, switching brands may help. NauseaThis...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

‘IVF provides 90% solution to infertility’

12:16 AM samizares
A senior gynecologist with the Bridge Clinic in Kaduna, Dr. Ifeju Omojuwa, in this interview said that IVF technology has taken infertility treatment to a new level in Nigeria, explaining that the ability to fertilize the egg and sperm outside the body alone has overcome problems that women have in fertility. Excerpt:- Can you expatiate more on what IVF entails and briefly tell us the essence of Bridge Clinic forum?In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is basically an advance form of fertility treatment. The conventional fertility treatment looks at the...
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