Healthcare

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 ...

The physician should make deep discussion to their older patients regarding to the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), such as for eligibility and self decision based on discussion. This is because the benefits of defibrillator against cardiac arrest in such population may not helpful for them to live more longer. This suggestion ...

Pregnant women who use antithyroid drug should be careful because it can affect to low birthweight risk in their baby, including small for gestational age babies. This warning based on case control study of 2830 hyperthyroidism mothers and 14,150 age-matched control mothers. According to the findings, the comparison between women with hyperthyroidism ...

Antenatal indomethacin is a medication which also given to suppress premature labor. Despite little evidence showed on this non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) in improving neonatal outcomes, the drug continues to be used so far. However, because postnatal indomethacin has been associated with necrotizing enterocolitis in preemies and it readily crosses the placenta, ...

The parent should be aware when their children had experienced with traumatic matters such as from abuse, neglect, and violent histories either from domestic and community. A new study has indicated that childhood trauma could linked to learning problems and obesity risk. This suggestion based on medical records reviewed of 701 patients ...

There are many benefits from an essential water soluble B vitamin of folic acid such as in fight of bipolar disease, depression, reduce the risk of birth defect, increase red blood production, and much more. However, because there were some cases of people with B12-vitamin deficiency suggested that high level of ...

Excessive fluids in the lungs often occur in the patients with acute lung injury (ALI). This causes the patient hard to breathe and sometimes causing death. So far in medicine world, mechanical ventilation with ventilator and intravenous fluid are best solution so far to help spontaneous breathing. Since using salbutamol or albuterol ...

It is very important to know deeply the impact and success rate of peri- and post-operative of joint replacement surgery or arthroplasty. While the elective arthroplasty patients have large number in the U.S., but there is also possibly risk of blood clots, cardiac complications, or infections that may increase morbidity and ...

The research of negative effects from second hand smoke has been well established so far for many of health risks. From sleep problems in children, breathing problems, heart disease, kidney disease and many more, including increasing blood pressure. However, there is less study for blood pressure effect in children. Due to this, ...

Although selenium supplements may have benefits to immune system, prevent the risk of coronary heart disease, improve fertility, and possibly cancer prevention, however, there is possibly negative effects when consumed in people who have selenium levels higher at baseline. A new study from United Kingdom said that taking selenium supplements for ...

Accurate diagnosis for early onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very important to get early proper action in the prevention or medications. However, the diagnosis often more likely to give a false result, because the symptoms given often does not related to memory problems, as memory loss always suggested to the ...

Paracetamol or Acetaminophen (for U.S) is common analgesic/antipyretic drug often prescribed with off label. Since the agent in both single ingredients of the drug or part of several ingredients of other drugs are widely used as primary care, therefore the use of inappropriate dose of paracetamol/acetaminophen is very possible. According to ...

More evidences of zinc supplementation, including vitamin A and other micronutrients showed that they have significantly help children with acute diarrhea. According to new findings reported in Pediatric on May 18, 2011, as an adjunct oral rehydration solution, these micronutrients can give big impact in recovery process and healing for the ...

Any types of chronic lung disease that categorized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly make the patients hard to breathe. Although pharmacologically there is no cure for this disease, current inhaled medications for such patients already help them to treat the disease. However, this medications seem had adverse events that should ...

The proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drug is one of popular drug to reduce gastric acid secretion. Together with histamine 2 receptor antagonist (H2RA) drugs, both of them are often used in patients for long term period to treat the disorders. In addition, some disorders are also often use these drugs. However, until today ...

Selenium (Se) is an essential mineral nutrient that important to human body. Due to its benefits, some diseases often use selenium supplementation as part of the healing or prevention, such as in patients with AIDS, those who at risk or prevent from cataracts, multiple sclerosis, asthma, cervical dysplasia, osteoarthritis, rheumatism, and ...

For those with colon problems, especially to colorectal cancer, small vascular malformation of the gut, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, or acute diverticulitis, colon resection surgery is common treatment medically used by surgeons to remove it. However, this surgical procedure associated with mortality risk. An estimated of 2% to 6%, overall, this surgical ...

Pregnant women who use amphetamines that widely used to improve the functions of mental and physical such as related to allertness and wakefullness, and reducing fatigue and appetite, should be careful because this drug can worsening their birth outcomes. At least, new meta-analysis study confirmed that this drug can increase the ...

Previous trial has suggested that Baclofen oral (Arbaclofe placarbil, AP) had benefits for patients with gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), which is reduce its reflux. However, this oral drug required frequent dose for the treatment. Meanwhile, common side effect often seen from the frequent oral dose of baclofen; the drowsiness and somnolence, which ...

Depression is one of chance for the people have a commitment to suicide. It is affect to the teenagers until older people. However, depression characteristics between these groups are significantly different. Older adult often had lot of complicated matters than young people. From the burden of living up until illness and ...

Without any apparent reason in the report from the influence of heroin or injection drugs against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, the data showed the HCV infection cases had increased significantly and become new disease epidemic in youth American, especially in injection drugs user. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Increasing the dosage of centrolizumab pegol in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who had no response with this agent is no help to improve the disease activity, even with selected candidates. This conclusion appeared after the researchers conducted open-label extension trial among 240 RA patients. Overall, the investigators said that "dose escalation from ...

Monitoring creatinine levels in the patients after lung transplantation can be important as acute kidney injury (AKI) that occurs in these patients after lung transplants may increasing the death risk by 2-3 times within 2 years. This suggestion appeared after the researchers evaluated the data on 657 patients who underwent lung ...

Until today, individual studies related to impact from the treatment for insulin resistance among patients with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection remain controversial, although it was common on these patients. As the treatment to reduce insulin resistance may came from lifestyle intervention and medication, therefore, some experts suggest to treat their ...

An agent of birth control pill of drospirenone had compounds nearly close to natural progesterone, an synthetic progestin. Yasmin is one of birth control pill contain drospirenone, while it also contain ethinylestradiol. This agent not androgenic hormone and may had contraindicated for specific patients, such as those with malfunction adrenal glands, liver ...

Several studies had indicated that toxins produced by bacteria in accumulated plaque at the gum line in pregnant women may influence their pregnancy outcomes. From premature delivery, low birth weight of infant until preeclampsia. As this gum disease also linked to increased systemic cytokines because the bacteria in the gingival inflammation ...

Previous research has showed that sleep apnea can lead to coronary heart disease. In the recent study, the researchers also found that while sleep apne can increase the risk of heart attack, those who had a heart attack would exacerbates their suffering of sleep apnea. The results of this latest research based ...