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New version of birth control pill SEASONALE recently approved by FDA

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The FDA recently approved the birth control pill Seasonique, which allows women to cut their menstrual periods from one a month to only four periods a year. This advance in medicine will give women even more freedom and variety of choices in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Seasonique is the latest version of SEASONALE, both designed to give women four periods a year instead of 12. Seasonique provides a low dose of estrogen during a menstrual period, resulting in less breakthrough bleeding than the earlier version approved in 2003. With Seasonale, women took only “dummy” pills during their period.   Both are prescription, oral contraceptives. If used as directed, either drug is thought to be 99% effective in preventing pregnancy. Serious or minor side effects have been reported in using hormonal contraceptives in some women. Among serious risks are blood clots, stroke, and heart attack. In women over age 35 who smoke cigarettes, the risks of cardiovascular side effects are incr
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Ageless Male Muscle Building Review

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With the gush of testosterone products in the market, it has been discovered by the neurosurgeons that Ageless Male is a product which has proven its mettle. This is a product which will not only raise your testosterone levels up to 61%, that too being healthy. Well, this is not a joke and no one is kidding here, so you need not ignore your queries under any condition for the fact that this product will not only make you confident but also makes you fit and healthy. It lessens your weight and surplus fat, boosts up your sex drive and boosts up your stamina as well. The regularity and passion of sexual encounters actually determines happiness of your union with your spouse to a great extent. Any abstinence or negligence will upshot in the termination or demise of your happy relationship. Considering money and comfort levels as the crucial fundamentals for a blissful experience is quite obvious but adding healthy sexual life to this list is also a must which is considerably possi
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Extreme Weight Loss Good or Bad for Health

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If you are on the way of extreme weight loss program, so in this journey one thing that you want to ask that how fast you can lose weight while staying safe on the other hand to? According to me, this is most important thing losing weight because extreme weight loss is another big problem occurs when you are going on this journey. You might saw some people who are on the way to lose weight by hook or crook, and don’t care of anything in their way which is worse thing in this regard as they are playing with their health which is key for their life. So could you think that there is a way to quick loss in weight can be done and not torturing your health too? Now you are thinking that what is the most extreme rate to lose weight that you should adopted to do this? Let’s see what you should according to us. Manage You Time This is very first thing you need to consider when you start working on weight loss plan that how long you can continue it?  If so then you might be thinking
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Condoms Offer Effective Protection for HPV

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A three-year study of 82 women volunteers, initially virgins, at the University of Washington showed that after becoming sexually active, they reduced their chances of contracting human papilloma virus (HPV) by 70% when partners always used a condom. Women in the study kept journals of their sexual practices and were checked for HPV every four months with swabs of the cervix and other genital areas. They noted whether there was any genital contact before using the condom. HPV can cause cervical cancer, genital warts, vaginal, vulvar, anal and penile cancers. It is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), infecting about 80% of young women within five years after becoming sexually active. HPV is frequently killed by the immune system, but in some women, the virus causes lesions that can become cancerous. Worldwide, about 500,000 develop cervical cancer and nearly 300,000 die of it annually. In the U.S., some 3,500 women die of it each year. Known to prevent AIDS a
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Liberia – Officially Ebola Free

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Last week, Liberia announced that it was officially Ebola free. Almost two months have passed since the last known incident. Even though Guinea and Sierra Leone are still fighting this epidemic, it seems as though the worst is over. Liberia was one of the worst hit countries – 4,716 out of the total 11,022 death were from Liberia. Luckily, outbreaks do not have to be as bad. They do not have to spread as far or take the lives of so many. If we take the rights steps and put in the right measures, we can become proactive (rather than be reactive) and fight these diseases. We must remember that disaster relief comes from developed, peaceful countries and goes to places that are poor and conflict-ravaged. Understanding the dynamics of how disaster relief works can be the key to getting the next relief efforts right. Many experts who study the spread of disease were able to foresee Ebola in war-torn Africa. The signs were pointing towards a possible pandemic; the area is already r
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Physicians Using Smartphones Can Help Decrease Deaths

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Atul Gawande never thought he would write a book about checklists. But it turns out, checklists save lives. Gawande, a surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a staff writer for The New Yorker was at Harvard University on Wednesday to discuss his new book “The Checklist Manifesto.” Like Baer, Gawande uses stories to transmit important information on health policy. While an undergraduate at Stanford University, Gawande took a creative writing course because a girl he liked (Kathleen Hobson, now his wife) was taking it. He got a C because he had “nothing to say.” It wasn’t until he began his surgical training that Gawande had something he wanted to write about. He ended up writing two successful books on surgery: “Complications” and “Better.” He is now “Dr. Checklist,” because while working for the World Health Organization (WHO), Gawande demonstrated that checklists reduce surgical complications and death by double-digit percentage points in hospitals around
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African-American Women More Likely to Die from Breast Cancer

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For various reasons, women of African-American descent are more likely to die from breast cancer than their Caucasian counterparts. Recent findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology indicated that black women were nearly 20 percent more likely than white women to succumb to their disease. Researchers took into consideration variables such as socioeconomic status and disease stage. Another study, conducted at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, showed that women in minority groups – including Hispanics — were unlikely to receive complete follow-up treatment after breast cancer surgery. Treatments including radiation, chemotherapy or hormonal therapy are often given as an extra precaution against recurrence. The two studies were controlled for socioeconomic differences, the presence of other illnesses, and whether or not a woman had health insurance.  The likelihood of not getting the best adjuvant therapy (follow-up care) was 16 percent among white women, 23
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