The risk of HIV transmission is significantly reduced if an infected person starts oral antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a report released Thursday.If the patient starts the treatment right away and does not allow the disease to progresses, the risk of transmission is reduced 96%, the study said. "This is excellent news, "said lead study investigator and director of the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases,from the... [read news]
One of the most deadly diseases at the moment is cancer; blood literally freezes in one’s blood upon hearing the word because the treatment is cruel and sometimes ineffective. In addition sometimes a treatment is not even possible because the tumor is located in organs that cannot be reached. One of the worst types of cancer is pancreatic cancer. Doctors believe now they have found a combination of drugs that improve survival chances by 60%.... [read news]
What is a cerebral aneurysm? A cerebral aneurysm is a weaknesses in the blood vessel walls of the brain that cause the vessels to balloon. Studies have revealed that between two and five percent of Americans currently live with a brain aneurysm. Though most will not suffer a rupture, the ones who do risk a life of disability or worse, death. What are the causes of these aneurysms? Time and studies have revealed eight probable causes according to... [read news]
Even if international authorities report that the risk after the accidents that took place at the nuclear plant in Japan is "very low",the Spanish Society for Radiological Protection (SEPR)warns about the necessity to distribute Potassium Iodide tablets to protect people against radioactivity. The vice president of this entity,Eduardo Gallego,acknowledges that, "despite having alienated the population over 20 kilometers of the... [read news]
If human beings we could travel into the past or opening a window into the future to choose the best decision for a given situation, it is likely that the things we were better. However, and since we have not yet made such progress, people tried to respond to the problems facing us in the most rapid and successful that comes to mind. If a little over a year we were told that the H1N1 virus would cause the same (or smaller) number of deaths than... [read news]
The technique consists in using the matrix of an organ to grow tissue tissue from a stem cell seeding. The artificial heart of the future could be biological. It's not a pun. It would, in a few years if the process works, the closest thing to create a heart. But it does not start from scratch. The novelty of the technique, explains the head of cardiology at the hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid Francisco Fernández-Avilés, is that it uses a... [read news]
Loneliness in the elderly leads to alcohol abuse, drugs, and drugs. And 'what emerges from the Congress of the Italian Society of Psicogeriatria which was held in Gardone Riviera, in the province of Brescia. It is estimated that in Italy over a 65 to 10 (or 2.5 million) are at risk of cocaine, amphetamines and marijuana. Alcohol abuse covers a million and a half old, the problem affects particularly men, as much as 80% and 20% women. "The... [read news]
