Archives for December, 2008
Around 25 years ago, doctors in the U.S discovered the first cases of Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, generally known as “AIDS” in San Francisco and New York. Now, 42 million people are suffering from AIDS globally, according to estimation, and the mortality rate is almost 3 million, each year, due to AIDS-related diseases.
AIDS is mainly caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus destroys CD4 lymphocyte, which acts as defense cell in the human body. These cells are very essential part of immunity system that wrestles infectious diseases. People infected with this virus become immune deficient and start to get serious infections that they normally wouldn’t.
In such a huge population it is essential to have a HIV test that is quite common now a day. Even you can test your blood for HIV infection via home HIV test kit that is cost effective too.
There are some misconceptions about the spreading of HIV, even in social setup most of us used to keep away the HIV infected human beings as they thought, that the virus can spread through air or touch. It’s totally wrong; HIV requires aqueous media to transmit from one person to another.
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According to U.K researchers, aerobic exercise can prove more helpful to suppress appetite than some non-aerobic activity.
In this study, 11 university students (male) were involved who took part in three kinds of sessions. In the first session, they were asked to run on a treadmill for 60min, and then took rest for seven hrs. In the other session, the participants were asked to do weight training for 90min and then took rest for 6.5 hrs. In the last session, the participants didn’t perform any exercise.
In every session, these students got two meals and they were also asked to report hunger levels at different points in every session. Then the researchers noted the levels of ghrelin and peptide YY—two basic appetite hormones—among the participants.
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A review suggests that fish oil may help to decrease the number of heart diseases’ related deaths, but it appears to have no help for patients with heart beat problems.
The review has been based on the results of various fish oil related studies in which nearly 30,000 patients were involved. The researchers from the University of Alberta conducted the study and it has been published in the journal BMJ online edition.
The researchers found that it was reported in almost 11 studies that fish oil helped to decrease heart problem 20%. But no study could determine the most favorable formulation or recommended dose for fish oil.
As men get older, they often have to suffer from enlarged prostate, as the gland often swells with age. This enlarged prostrate becomes the cause of many painful symptoms and it is essential for men with enlarged prostate to get medical treatment promptly.
According to a study, nearly 52% of men with an enlarged gland do not have any symptoms, but if they have to suffer from the following, they must reckon them as warning signs.
- Slow start of urination and with a weaker stream.
- To face difficulty when passing urine or even in some cases it becomes almost impossible to urinate.
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