Archive for March, 2008

In May 2007, a wide study completed with the aim of wayward electronic blast as of IPods; could cause implantable cardiac’s trendsetters in the direction of break down. This immediately could not jingle exactly on the way to the cardiac electro physiologists by the side of Children’s, sanatorium Boston, which encompass hundreds of children, teen aging along with adolescent by means of heart condition entails trendsetters.

“Many of our pacemaker patients have IPods and other digital music players, and we have never seen any problem,” assumed by Charles Berol; He is the MD and the director of the Pacemaker Service at Children’s. “But kids and parents bring up this concern all the time, prompting us to do our own study.”

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“The Journal of Neurology” has recently published a new study which brought up an interesting link between increase in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia decades later, if you are in your 40s and have belly fat. Dr. Randolph, author of “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” also commented about this new finding and said that ‘Estrogen Dominance’ can be taken as that missing link which seems to be playing important role.

C.W. Randolph, co-author of the newly released best selling book “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” says that he is not surprised by the results of this study. He further adds that the traditional medical community took long to establish the link and the most unfortunate thing is still many doctors and patients are unable to understand the underlying causes of neurological function, being impaired due to weight gain and storage of fat in the belly area.

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Pharmaxis has recently circulated ‘IOC Consensus Statement on Asthma in Elite Athletes’ in which it declared Aridol (mannitol) to get an approval as test by the “International Olympic Committee’s independent Medical Commission”. These athletes are competing in the Beijing Olympics.The IOC Medical Commission focused on finding whether the elite athletes were diagnosed correctly and they were administered the correct therapy for asthma. The commission didn’t test the efficacy of the treatments known as beta-2 agonists however it recommended a bronchial provocation examination like Aridol to diagnose asthma in Olympians.

There has been an increase in the occurrence of respiratory symptoms like recurrent breathlessness, cough, wheezing, chest tightness and excessive mucous production in the athletes, which may suggest prevalence of asthma. However these symptoms could not be singly relied upon to make a diagnosis of asthma in an athlete. Moreover, there is a possibility of the clinical examination to be normal so certain objective tests like spirometry are required to confirm the diagnosis.

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It is stunning to hear that Food and Drug Administration has declared Singulair as a fatal drug which leads a person to death. Actually it happens that when the patient of asthma is using this drug for a longer period of time; he suddenly changes in his temper and behaviors’. Such patient gets physically and mentally hyper and tries to a suicide.

FDA has clearly reported on the fact that there has been some deaths due to the suicidal attmepts.They have shown these cases which were caused to death by the use of Singulair in last year during the month of October 2007.Therefore FDA has clearly announced that the patients who are involving in asthma and using singulair; they should check to their doctor on a regular basis FDA also reported that it is not to say to the public that the patients of asthma who are using singulair should stop that drug in the tremor and changing behaviors’.

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A recent study which is soon going to be published in the April issue of the journal “Diabetes Care”, published by the “American Diabetes Association”, has come up with alarming news for those suffering from diabetes. According to it, diabetes also affects the lung capacity thus carrying repercussion on the prospective use of inhaled insulin.

The issue also emphasizes the need for more consistent efforts to control lipids to reduce cardiometabolic risk. It also focuses for the first time on the need to test for and treat high levels of apolipoprotein B, a protein which plays an important role in causing heart disease (atherosclerosis). It has been evidently proven that levels of this protein are a better indicator of heart disease risk than total cholesterol or LDL (“bad cholesterol”).

As a part of a larger investigation known as the ‘Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)’ study, the lung study has affirmed the previous link between diabetes and increase in lung abnormalities. The same researchers in the previous researches have confirmed that downfall in lung capacity could be an indicator towards onset of diabetes. The editorial also credits the downfall in the lung capacity to the diabetes mortality and morbidity.

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