Archives for November, 2008
Breast cancer is one of the biggest women killers not only in the US, but in other parts of the world. To avoid breast cancer women are often advised to examine their breasts regularly and immediately contact their physician if they find any change or some other problem. But you must keep one thing in mind that a self-exam can never prove an alternative of a physician’s check or a mammogram.
However, self-exam is a good practice and you need to know about how to do it. Usually some days after period, breasts are not swollen or tender and it is the best time for self-exam. If you notice any of these following signs, you must consult your doctor:
appearance, armpit, breast cancer, little pain, mammogram, texture, warmness
Acne is often considered a problem that is hard to get rid of, but if you take good care of your skin and clean it in a regular proper way, it becomes quite easier to avoid as well as get rid of this nagging problem.
Here are some tips that can be very handy if you are willing to make the most of them.
- Use a quality face wash, which suits your skin condition, and wash your face after waking up, before going to bed and after such workouts as make you sweat heavily.
- Try to wash your face in such a way as no area of it should leave unwashed. Areas like below jaws, forehead and hairline must be washed in a proper way.
A review of existing data shows that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have no help with some well-known inhalers to improve their life spans.
Contrarily, they may increase the risk of pneumonia (one of the biggest killers in the US) in these patients.
However, without doctor’s recommendation, patients with COPD must not avoid using these inhalers as these devices prove beneficial in a number of cases, said Dr. M. Bradley Drummond, the lead author of the review.
Dr. Drummond, who is a fellow at the pulmonary and critical care medicine division at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, says: “Aside from well-known benefits, there are some possible risks and the review is about balancing them.”
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Nov.26 issue.
According to some experts, hot temper bosses make working environment stressful as well as they may be a risk factor for their employees’ heart health.
In their study that includes 3,000 employed men, researchers from Sweden found that there was a strong link between the risk of heart attacks and other heart diseases, and bad leadership. This risk goes up if the employee works under this boss for long time.
The study has been published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
bad boss, blood pressure, heart attacks, heart diseases, heart health, Medicine
It’s an often expressed idea about medicine that if you have high blood pressure, the steps you take to lower it will have a dramatic impact on your risk for heart disease, stroke and more.
But a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says that almost 70 percent people with high blood pressure are not doing enough to control it.
Dr. Keith Siller, who is medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Care Center at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, says: “High blood has links with stroke and heart disease, it’s a treatable and preventable condition, but unfortunately majority of people are not doing a good job for controlling it.”
exercise, heart disease, high blood pressure, Medicine, stroke
