Archives for January, 2009
Selectively chosen donors of kidney, experience no adverse affects on renal function, according to the study.
Previous researches have already mentioned that, people who donate kidney have no significant effect on the kidney function or survival, lead researcher Dr. Hassan N. Ibrahim said.
Researchers analyzed the data of 3,698 kidney donors from 1963 to 2007, to examine the long term safety. In 255 donors operated in 2003, researchers evaluated their GFR (glomerular filteration rate) also referred as 24 hours urinary creatinine clearance test, blood pressure and quality of life.
The normal range of GFR in healthy human is 90 to 120 mL/min and result values below 60, express renal dysfunction while value less than 15 express complete renal failure. Albumin in urine is another indication of kidney dysfunction.
There was no significant variation in the lab tests and survival between donors and non-donors, researchers reported. In addition, chronic diseases of kidney were more common in non-donors: 268 vs.180 cases per million per year.
Older age and greater body mass index (BMI) was linked to the high blood pressure and lesser GFR on enduring follow-up. On the contrary, long time after kidney donation didn’t link to GFR reduction and hypertension. Though, the slight decrease in albuminuria has been noticed.
albuminuria, chronic diseases, glomerular filteration rate, hypertension, kidney function
There is only one universal rule to loss weight that is cut down your daily intake of calories than you 
consume. It is an automated mechanism, when your body doesn’t find energy from blood stream; it starts to dissolve the stored fats of the body. Therefore, the most natural way to reduce weight is to use low calorie diet and physical work out along with some agent that can accelerate your metabolic rate.This natural approach to lose weight is the healthiest way to overcome the problem of obesity. But it is comparatively slow process in comparison with the most modern surgeries that includes liposuction, tummy tuck or abdominoplasty, gastric bypass and many more. To speed up this natural way you can add a diet pills that may increase your metabolic rate.
This will boost up the burning process and will dissolve your body fats more quickly than you thought. Another type of diet pills is commonly used to limit the absorption of fats called fat blockers. These fat blockers inhibit the action of lipase enzyme in small intestine and make the fats indigestible. As a result the undigested fats pass freely through the feces.
abdominoplasty, body toxins, diet pills, low calories, obesity, weight loss information
A group of researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee U.S stated on Tuesday said that
a child’s response towards cancer treatment is affected by genetic variations. These small variations are more than 100.
The researchers aimed to find genetic variations in inheritance that affect the cell functions in children. 476,796 inherited variations known as SNPs; single-nucleotide polymorphisms were examined. The SNPs influence the cancer cell number that is left after the first administration of chemotherapy, also known as the ‘minimal residual disease’.
To undergo the research, samples from two groups of children who were recently detected cancer patients, were taken. Around 102 inherited genetic variations were found in the results.
Mary Relling of St. Jude, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said, “We took those 102 and we tested whether they were involved in other related characteristics,”. It was found that 21 of these were related to active and early response to the treatments, and 21 amongst the rest were linked with relapse.
bone marrow, chemotherapy, lymphoblastic leukemia, single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Infant death rate from obstruct of suffocation have increased fourfold in the past twenty years in U.S. alone, 
most of the victim are those who used to sleep with their parents, government researchers reported.
Most affected babies were black males but why, the reason is still unknown, researchers at the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Study findings are clearly defining the trend. Already campaigns have launched to prevent sudden infant death syndrome also known as cot death or crib death, by putting kids to sleep on their backs instead of their separate beds.
“Mortality rate of sudden death due to suffocation and strangulation, in infants had quadrupled since 1984” the researchers reported.
To prevent such incident babies should be laid to sleep alone, on flat surface with small tight cushions in a cot with bars to keep the child from falling down.
Since 1998, another American woman had delivered eight babies in single pregnancy and has become the
second U.S. lady who gave birth to living octuplets.
Among them two were baby girls and six were baby boys which were nine week premature and delivered through C-section in the hospital of Los Angeles.
The birth weight of all babies was within the range of 0.82 to 1.47 kilograms and all are in good healthy conditions. They are energetically screaming around, staff nurses said
The identification of the mother has not been disclosed and she said that minimum information be liberated about the children. Doctors said that all deliveries took place within five minutes and this is truly amazing.
The team of the doctor had already planed c-section for the seven babies, but they got astonished when eight one came out.
“Lo and behold, after we got to Baby ‘G’, the last one we were expecting, we were surprised by Baby ‘H’.” said Dr Karen Maples.
baby girls, breathlessness, C-section, single pregnancy, six baby boys
