Adverse events of Aspirin is not only related to short- and long-term effects, such as loss of blood in the gastrointestinal tract, ringing ears, liver diseases, impaired brain functions, urticaria, headache, swelling, and some others, but also to blindness risk when used it more frequently. According to recent study conducted by ...
Wingspan Stent is one of new device in endovascular surgery for blood vessels stenting technique along with current invasive surgeries. However, the intracranial arterial stenting with this system remain questioned whether increasing complication rates or not, although the trial beyond approval of this techniques claimed more challenge than other blood ...
Although the transplants fairly effective and become one of the main treatment in treating patients with hematological cancer, such as acute and chronic leukemias, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, aplastic anemia, and Hodgkin's disease, but patients also need to know that even the cancer cells can be cured, there remains the possibility of ...
Many health practitioners has suggested that if current cancer treatments are not helpful at all in improving cancer patient condition, rather than extending survival in the short time and additional complications that worsen the patient's condition. And this is not only voiced by health practitioners, but also by individual or family ...
Despite highly cost of hip joint replacement therapy and some successful stories in reducing pain and improving quality of life of patients, current therapies however still have the risk of re-operation due to several factors, such as infection and problems on the device including imprecise location. While there are various method ...
Adipose tissue or fat around the heart (pericardial fat) can weaken the heart functions, and this risk will be worst in the obese patients with type-2 diabetes. Meanwhile, diabetes medications available today are less likely to provide effective treatment solution, such as free from dependence on insulin injection in type-2 diabetes ...
Therapy cost of end-stage renal disease of dialysis is not cheap and may require far enough mileage to dialysis clinics that can be at risk of decline in quality of life and increased mortality rates. The risk has been found by previous studies that found indications of declined of quality of ...
Breastfeeding is not only provides nutrients for a baby needs, but also for the mothers' health. There were many studies of breastfeeding benefits for the women, such as reducing the risk of ovarian cancer and breast cancer in postmenopausal period. Even more, recent studies also indicate that breastfeeding also could reduce the ...
The benefits of exercise in general is undoubtedly for health. Besides good for heart health, exercise is an easy preventive treatment to do. In fact, a new study from Austria found that exercise can improve diastolic heart failure. Of course, this is good news for heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. Even ...
Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) drug often used to treat breast cancer and has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This drug has been used to treat both early and advanced stages of breast cancer. Although previous studies suggested that tamoxifen did not cause diabetes, but ...
Currently, early aggressive fluid therapy has become a guidelines for patients with acute pancreatitis during the first 24 hour of hospitalization. However, this guidelines is lack of supportive evidence that directly addresses the benefits of such procedure. Recent observation study from Spain concluded that this procedure have no benefits in outcomes. In ...
The use of antibiotics should not be exaggerated or used only if necessary and supervised by your doctor. This is because the side effects on health, including disrupt the balance of flora in the intestine. Previous studies have also found those indications. Recent study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology add more ...
Although human pavillomavirus (HPV) and tumor biomarkers are more closely related to the patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, but the side effects of smoking should not be underestimated. Recent studies have found that this cancer patients who continued to smoke have lower rate of survival than ...
Adenoidectomy is surgical removal of a mass of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat behind the uvula (adenoids or pharyngeal tonsil). This procedure is often performed immediately in case of recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) in children. However, since the infection can heal itself over time, the researchers from ...
Amblyopia or lazy eye is reduced visual acuity and sensitivity to contrast due to the brain ignores the image received from the eye. The onset of this disorder because the eye long time unused due to interference in affected eye. However, that interference does not damage the optic nerve and the ...
The relationship between sleep disturbances (such as obstructive sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, or less of sleep duration) and the risk of high blood pressure has long been known. Many studies have also confirmed those relationship. However, the effects on the elderly seem unclear. Therefore, the researchers investigated the effects of sleep disturbances ...
Alcohol beverages consumed by pregnant women can adversely affect the fetus. The adverse effect is damaging in brain center or known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Having a healthy baby, certainly a dream of every couple. However, to get a healthy baby certainly requires a real effort, such as maintaining the ...
Telmisartan is an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (ARB) used in the management of hypertension. In a meta-analysis of hypertension studies, this drug that marketed under several brands also beneficial in diabetes prevention. However, based on latest trial from Kaiser Permanente, the researchers said that telmisartan (Micardis from Boehringer Ingelheim) no help for ...
The signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD)in older people (aged 80 years or older) may be different than younger individuals which commonly associated with cognitive and changes of brain areas. In other words, if the health practitioners would like to see the signs and symptoms of AD from the prototypical ...
Fluoride is hydrofluoric acid contained in many fluoridated water and also frequently used by dentists. However, long exposure of fluoride to the health remain debated many scientists. Since greater than 90% of body's fluoride resides in the skeleton, the researchers studied long-term exposure of fluoride and development of osteogenic sarcoma or osteosarcoma. They ...
Previous study have indicated that immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood (FOB) test is more precision in detecting bleeding in the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract or even in the upper GI tract. In order to confirm those suggestions, the researchers from Taiwan conducted a large population-based study (a population with prevalent upper gastrointestinal ...
Some time earlier, the researchers have found an evidence of negative effects of obesity on individuals with chronic liver disease, which can worsen the condition of their disease. Because of such evidence, the researchers hypothesized that increase in body mass index (BMI) will increase the risk of transition from compensated to ...
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an amino acid that found in the central nervous system. As neurontrasmitter, it helps inhibit the transmission of nerve impulses. Meanwhile, the concentration of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) also highly found in those area, including in retina which is part of the central nervous system. However, little known ...
Diet and physical activity are fancy suggestions recommended by health practitioners in addition to the treatment for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), although there were no strong systematic review that support those suggestion. But now, those recommendation could be more true after the researchers from United Kingdom found that ...
The benefits of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol has been known associated with reducing coronary heart disease risk. This is because HDL cholesterol had direct effects on endothelium by increasing production of nitric oxide (NO), which had the effects of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-thrombotic, and serves to regenerate endothelial. However, for patients ...
Some evidences has indicated that type 2 diabetic patients who have depression can worsening cardiovascular outcomes. Therefore, to obtain detail risk of illness due to this relationship, the researchers examined the database of St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Missouri, which consisted of 77,568 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), ...
Doctors are expected to provide information to the patients for the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter when prescribed their patients with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or selective COX-2 inhibitors. This is suggested by the researchers from Denmark who reported the findings in the British Medical Journal on July 4, ...
Strawberry is not only just a delicious fruits, but also has many benefits for health due to rich of antioxidant, anti inflammatory, detoxification effect, and other properties. All the benefits are very profitable for every organs of the human body, from immune system, organ functions (such as liver, heart, eye, ...
Minor head injury in children often occurred during sport activities, fall incidences, or bike and vehicle accidents. Despite some of them may hospitalized for several observations of neurologic deterioration, the researchers from Davis School of Medicine said that it does not necessary when the results of computed tomography (CT) scan was ...
The treatment for disorders in the rectum and colon has been increased with open colorectal and laparascopic colorectal surgery. It is well known that both of those methods may associated with the risk of blood clot within the vein or known as venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, there is little knowing the ...