Healthcare

Some bad things could happen unexpectedly, and this will cause uncontrolled emotion. The common effect of this condition is a stress. Many events causes stress, such as working pressure, the burden of life, death, loss of something, disease, disability, etc. In fact, stress can also occur in pregnant women, although pregnancy is ...

Constipation or difficult in bowel movements is a complaints that frequently reported during pregnancy. Why this complaint occur during pregnancy? and what tips that can handle it? The occurrence of constipation during pregnancy can be caused by several reasons. - Increasing of hormone progesterone which cause muscle relaxation so that the gut is ...

Previous studies have suggested that low testosterone levels may associated with early death risk in men. However, although the decline in testosterone levels can affects male sexual desire and the risk of health problems, but the risk of early death associated with testosterone levels seemed to be too excessive. Even recently, the ...

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody used intravenously to treat metastatic breast cancer because its ability in binding a protein overexpressed in some breast cancer. However, the patients should be also advised if this medication can cause the risk of cardiac complications, and therefore regular cardiac screening may needed during ...

For women, pregnancy can be a difficult time for those who have eating disorders in both characterized by anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). This further exacerbated with less heedless of health professional in responding the effect of eating problems on pregnancy and fertility. In a recent large cohort study which ...

Since a few published cases reported some forms of birth defect in infant as a result of the mother who consumed high doses of fluconazole (400-800 mg/day) (Diflucan from Pfizer) during pregnancy (both in the first trimester or all), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the use of ...

Vaginal discharge in women Women who experienced with vaginal discharge in general would be very disturbing their activities. Vaginal discharge itself like a kind of slim that came out too much, it was white like sago or flour rather thick and slightly yellowish. Slim is the mucus from the vagina, which if not ...

Currently, prostate disorders has become a growing problem suffered by many men worldwide. Some people might think of prostate dysfunction is a minor problem, but if not handled properly, it will cause more dangerous disease and even cancer risk. Therefore, 10 of below tips hopefully useful for you to maintain prostate health. 1. ...

Keishi-Bukuryu-Gan is a popular herbal remedy and most recommended by gynecologists in Japan to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. In this country, this herbal remedy has been regulated as a prescription drug for menopausal symptoms with rare of side effects. Whether the effects may have similar result in the ...

If lately your desire to urinate unlike usual, you should be suspicious. You can just blame your bladder, but from all of the possibilities, your problem may be in the prostate. The prostate is a small gland like a walnut that surround the top of urethra, the drain from the bladder. The ...

The babies who are born very prematurely are vulnerable to the risk of chronic lung disorder of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) which is characterized by inflammation and scarring in the lungs. However, thanks to the presence of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). This is because the high dose of DHA supplements intake from their ...

Oxygen (O2) supplement or vitamin O is supplementation designed to provide cell needs with oxygen. Although this supplement helpful for body's health, while suspected could reduce the risk of wound infections after cesarean because the oxidative can kill bacteria, however a new study said that O2 supplement won't reduce infectious complications ...

Breast implants with silicone gel is one of popular treatment in cosmetic purpose to enlarge breast size. Although this treatment can give instant results, however, the safety of the device should be aware by the user. While the device itself may require to be removed after used in several years, the women ...

Breastfeeding advantage is not only provide almost complete form of nutrition for infants or mother's health, from immunity until the growth and lowering overweight risk of the mother, but also reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk. SIDS is unknown reason of death incidences of infant which statistically ...

As the trial of antiandrogenic drugs of Dutasteride and Finasteride; a 5-alpha reductase (5-AR) inhibitor drug to treat enlargement of prostate size or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) including hair loss caused by androgenic alopecia, showed mixture in result, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just release a caution to ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a disease that can extend to the risk of chronic or acute ischemia, not only limited to severe pain. While this obstruction of peripheral arteries more common in men then women, but for cigarette smoker's women, the risk can increase significantly. This warning based on new findings ...

The problems of erectile dysfunction (ED) is very common among diabetic patients. However, the first line therapy of their ED from their physicians often had less effective. As a result, these patients often require more lines and aggressive therapies until surgery procedure. A recent report says that it affects to more than ...

Most people agreed that early prevention for future risk is important, especially during childhood and adolescents. Several studies has showed strongly that irregular menstrual cycles in older women linked to heart disease and diabetes risk, however, when this is happening to teenagers, the impact remain unclear. Since irregular menstrual cycles in teenager ...

The benefits of breastfeeding not only provides proper nutrients for baby's growing or raise their immune system, but also reduce behavior problems in their childhood. This positive effect may resulting from essential fatty acids of breast milk and intensive interactions between the mother and baby during breastfeeding. That is conclusion from recent ...

The impact of prostate cancer may different between straight and gay men. According to new survey study that conducted online and presented at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) on May 15, 2011, Thomas L. Griebling, MD, MPH, an AUA's spokeperson from the University of Kansas ...

For most people, hair loss is a terrible tragedy. Besides many of them considered as 'destructive' appearance, they also worried about the sign of any diseases associated with their hair loss phenomenon. Some clinical indications suggested that the individual with hair loss may indicated had poor of nutrient, which is also affect ...

A new study adding more evidences that coffee consumption reduce the lack of estrogen receptor that associated with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer. This type of breast cancer risk often linked to postmenopausal women. As previous study has increase the concern regarding to coffee intake associated with breast cancer risk, current study ...

Based on reviewed database of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, National Science Digital Library, and China Biological Medicine, from January 1, 1990, to August 31, 2010, the investigators concluded that mothers with hepatitis B virus (HBV) will not transfer their disease to their infants during breastfeeding after having active vaccine immunization ...

Until today, there is no clear for ideal lower weight of gestation in obese women. However, recent findings suggested that it should not more than 20 pounds in weight gain of gestation in obese pregnant women. For the reason, according to new findings, based on electronic medical records of 2080 obese women ...

Testicular cancer defined as cancer cells that occurred in the testicles with the symptoms includes a lump in either testicle, any enlargement or significant shrinking of a testicle, a sensation of heaviness in the scrotum, a dull ache in the groin or lower ...

Consume breast milk with protein fortifier from tube feeding in very preterm infants often done recently. This procedure also had support from several suggestions that adding fortified breast milk may improve very preterm infant's growth. Due to this the researchers from Denmark investigate whether adding protein fortifier to breast milk could ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a therapy that most often used in menopausal women to treat the symptoms of hot flashes, including to prevents the risk of osteoporosis. As postmenopausal women commonly experienced with hot flashes between 30 to 150 times per month, this therapy become popular in this area, despite ...

Oral contraceptives are birth control medications taken by mouth both in single contain of progestogen type or combination between progestogen and oestrogen type. However, for the women who at risk of formation of a blood clot within the vascular system or knwon as had a Thrombus risk, the side effect of ...

The vasomotor menopausal symptoms of hot flashes that typically last for a few minutes is described as declining estrogen levels associated with menopause that characterized by a sensation of warmth of the face and upper body, flushing of the skin, sweating, rapid heart rate, irritability, and headache. An observational study led ...

Prostate cancer usually grow very slowly, and individuals may not display symptoms for some time. If the prostate is enlarged, preliminary diagnosis can be made by rectal examination or transrectal ultrasound (TRUS). A blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used to detect prostate tumors in their earliest stages. If any of ...