Health Care

After taking abortion pill RU-486, two more women died in March — one in the U.S. and one in Canada. These recent deaths raise the total to seven women. Used for more than 560,000 abortions in this country, the abortion pill still carries a small risk, affecting slightly over one in 100,000 women. In comparison, the risk of death associated with surgical abortion is only a tenth of the risk of pill-induced abortion, or one in a million. RU-486 is administered at various abortion clinics. Women are instructed to take another drug, misoprostol, two to three days later. After taking scheduled doses of both drugs, women generally have a miscarriage that takes place at home. Some find the medical abortion preferable or more “natural” than surgery.  The first five women are known to have died from infection with the bacterium Clostridium sordellii. FDA officials dispute any definitive link between the infections and RU-486 or that women taking abortion pills are more at risk for ...

Man reaching to the moon is the perfect example of fast growing technology and world around us but one should not forget that these rapid changes happening around us have killed our natural environment and thus created a number of health problems. Though fast and modern life is good for the society to an extent but our poor lifestyle has created several infectious diseases at the same time. The planet is flourishing with a variety of micro-organisms such as fungal spores, parasites, protozoa, viruses and bacteria. These spread in human beings and cause several diseases. There are healthy bacteria too that are present in your body which help in the digestive process. Despite their usefulness, they can create imbalance in the body which lead to different illnesses. Lyme disease, ebola virus, severe acquired respiratory syndrome, anthrax, legionnaire’s disorder and HIV infection are certain infectious diseases that can be life-threatening. These occur due to evolution of an existi...

Deep vein thrombosis is a condition of clotting of blood which is generally seen deep inside the vein. It actually affects the vein present deep inside the leg or veins present deep beneath the pelvis. This is a disease which at time occurs without any specific symptoms. Most of the cases the patient find the swollen area irritating, it gets red, the superficial veins get themselves engorged, the pain is extreme. Deep vein thrombosis is generally regarded as medical emergency, any kind of swollen found in the vein should be initially regarded as DVT until it is proven by the doctor. The mortality rate for DVT is generally 3% this is for lower extremity and for higher extremity the mortality cases are rare. If this DVT becomes complicated then the situation is regarded as post thrombic syndrome. The treatment deep vein thrombosis mainly aims at different levels, which are: The treatment should check that the blood clot do not become large It should also help in preventing the c...

Hepatitis is a viral infection caused due to HCV (hepatitis C virus). This is a liver infection which is tremendously difficult to eradicate the infection and the virus. This infection is continual and can even cause liver failure. When the body is infected with the virus there are no symptoms at first. So, newly infected people fail to clear the virus and remain infected for long. Hepatitis C is basically swelling of liver. It’s unusual disease because it’s mostly hidden. It can even take a complete year for you to realize the symptoms. People with Acute Hepatitis C pass dark urine, queasiness, severe tiresomeness-these are the very first symptoms of this infection. Only 25% people have a tendency to make progress once they obtain the cure. The rest of 75% people will get into chronic hepatitis C. The difficulty in the chronic Hepatitis C is that people who are suffering from the same have no same symptoms or condition. This virus can remain inactive in the body for many years...

But for babies age 6 months to 1 year or older children who sometimes wheeze in breathing, the research showed that old-fashioned shots are safer. In a worldwide test on 8,400 preschoolers completed during the 2004-2005 flu season, 8.6% of children receiving shots developed flu, while only 3.9 children given the spray succumbed to the virus. The spray was shown to dramatically reduce the risk of flu-related ear and lower respiratory tract infections, as well. Needle vaccinations are made of killed virus particles that provided less protection to children under age 5 than to adults. Preschoolers given the needle also exhibited more side effects. The nasal spray uses live, weakened viruses. Researchers at the St. but half as many of those who received the nasal spray became ill as those getting flu shots. So, for children over a year old who don’t have a history of wheezing (about 80% of children), it appears that the intranasal vaccine is better. The spray vaccine could carr...