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According to the health officials of China, the death rate due to AIDS was the ever highest, last year compare to all other infections. In the history of China, this has happened in the first time.
Now the report from country’s state media has revealed that the 7,000 people get died because of AIDS in the first nine month of 2008. So this disease overlapped and pushed the other diseases like T,B and rabies to second and third places.
China’s Ministry of Health has expressed their worries that the number is increasing widely. The total number of death count due to AIDS was just 8,000 altogether till three years back.
Available data of the AIDS patients in China are unpredictable but the official reports of new cases have got lowered.
Drugs widely known as steroids can be categorized as anabolic steroids or corticosteroids. Anabolic steroids, such as cortisone or prednisone are drugs that physicians use to prescribe for the control of inflammation in the body. Corticosteroids are slightly different from anabolic steroids and now are linked with the illicit use in sports.
Anabolic steroids also known as anabolic-androgenic steroids are synthetically made on the structure, similar to the male hormone “testosterone”. You can buy steroids legally with the help of prescription as these are specifically prescribed to treat various health conditions that cause the degeneration of muscle mass.
Use of anabolic steroids without any medical condition is illegal and majority of sports organization has already banned this drug.
Unsafe sex sets women at higher HIV risk than men, as the results of a study show that the virus can penetrate even safe vaginal tissue.
Previously, it was believed that just damaged vaginal tissue could pave a way for the virus. But now the current findings suggest that HIV can breach the healthy tissue as well.
Different HIV charities in UK urged women to avoid unsafe sex without knowing about the health of their partner.
Squamous epithelium, the vaginal lining was believed to keep the infection at bay, but the study says that the Virus can penetrate it as well.
damaged vaginal, HIV, infection, Unsafe sex, women’s vaginal skin
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy now can be used, safely to treat prostrate cancer in men suffering from AIDS, without any long-term adverse effect on CD4+ cell count or in the severity of viral infection. A small study suggested.
While treating patient of prostrate cancer with radiotherapy, it’s out of question to put HIV-infected patients on different machine than their HIV-negative counterpart, lead researcher Dr. Anthony M. Berson, from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, and colleagues said.
The study was published in the November issue of Urology. In the study 14 HIV-infected patients with prostate cancer were included which have undergone the treatment with external beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy or both. PSA level, CD4+ cell count, and intensity of viral infection were evaluated at baseline and again at latest follow-up, which ranged from 8 to 73 months.
AIDS, CD4+ cell count, HIV, prostrate cancer, radiotherapy, sexual diseases
