Archive for March, 2008
“WoundStat”, a ground breaking product from ‘TraumaCure’ is the most effective wound treatment that stops severe bleeding. Excessive bleeding is among the top causes of death of soldiers in the battlefields.
The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR), a premier ballistic injury research organization, has recently released the findings of a specific study which shows that only “WoundStat” is 100% effective for stopping high pressure arterial bleeding.
ISR conducted a comparative study and tested every leading product including the ‘gold standard model’ conforming products. It was revealed that only “WoundStat” showed 100% survival and achieved 100 percent hemostasis among the test subjects. The results also demonstrated minimum blood loss.
A telephonic survey has been recently conducted by ‘Harris Interactive’ on behalf of the National Council on ‘Patient Information and Education (NCPIE)’ to determine the various circumstances under which consumers are most likely to succumb to self-medication for themselves and their children. The survey was supported by ‘sanofi-aventis’. Sample of 1,005 adults’ ages 18+ were randomly selected and interviewed out of which 650 were exclusively identified for self medication before or instead of visiting their doctor.
It also attempted to know the different factors which encourage consumers to take non-prescription or over-the-counter medications before or instead of consulting their doctor.
The results show that 76% of American adults in spite of knowing the risks involved use non-prescription medications in order to save time, money and a trip to the doctor. Most of the consumers were found self treating seasonal allergies and year-round allergies. Few percent also reported self-medicating for cough and cold, seasonal or year-round allergies, heartburn, or severe headaches. Most of them admitted doing this due to past experience treating the condition however the majority accepted the possibility of risks involved while doing this.
“Luscious Lips” is an innovative pump device which can give you kissable lips within seconds. A recent survey by Richard Fleming and Toby Mayer revealed that the Angelina Jolie lips are at the top in the list of most wanted features among the plastic surgery patients.
‘Luscious Lips’ is a new tool which can make all these people happy with full pouty and more kissable lips.‘Luscious Lips’ is a small device in red color and has been designed in such a way that it increases your lip size up to almost 50 percent. This innovative lip pump provides a completely painless replacement of conventional injected fillers and topical lip substances. Lip redesigning with this new device is extremely cost effective and saves thousands of dollars in a year.
According to Richard Fleming and Toby Mayer, the fuller lips give one a sexier feeling and outlook. It also helps a person in looking younger with the face. Lips generally shrink with increasing age. If your smile starts showing more teeth then it is an indication that you might need a lip tune-up.
‘Luscious Lips’ is a typical hand-held pump device. For lip tune-up the pump would be used only for ten seconds in a day for initial ten to fourteen days. This is basically required for conditioning of lips. Subsequently, the pump use will increase in time. Some of the plastic surgeons use it for 30 seconds while some other use for even 120 seconds in a day in order to create full, pouty lips. This would more depend upon the nature of lips and its required shaping and sizing, says Cynthia Rowland, the creator and innovator of the Luscious Lips.
‘Luscious Lips’ device has also been used by many physicians and has been tested for its functioning and result has been found to be good. Generally physicians have appreciated this as a simple and easy to use device. It is equally safe and affordable method for any person who is looking for temporary increase in the size and fullness of the lips. Experts and practitioners have also recommended this device as suitable for many other non-surgical applications and alternative for patients.
A typical ‘Luscious Lips’ device for lip augmentation is available with a price ranging from $300 to $500. “One can easily maintain fuller lips without going broke when they use Luscious lips for just seconds each day”, says Rowland.
Hair loss is one of the problems which most of men face with age, roughly quarter of them already start experiencing the problem in mid 20s. When they reach their 50s, they had already reached complete baldness. Unlike few past years, when only few options were available with men to cover their baldness, science and medicine has in recent years has already introduced various remedies for the same.
During the cycle of normal hair growth, it is normal to shed some hair each day. However some people face excessive hair loss, which could be due to many reasons. It can result out of any illness or hormonal change due to inactivity or hyperactivity in any of the glands. Among women, they notice hair loss after they have a baby. Even some medicines can cause hair loss, specially used to treat gout, or in chemotherapy to treat cancer. Over use of Vitamin A, birth control pills and antidepressants could also result hair loss. Certain infections and underlying ailments such as lupus or diabetes could also cause the same.
“Erectile Dysfunction(ED)” is not only a sex disorder but also an indication of general health of a person. All the more it is a direct indicator of your heart health. Johns Hopkins Prostate Disorders Health Alerts has reviewed two such studies that were conducted recently and has conformed the growing evidences supporting such effects.
A study involving almost 4,000 men with an average age of 57 years has revealed that the erectile dysfunctions cause negative impacts on cardiovascular and diabetic health of a person. About 50% of these people reported such problems that were on ED medications. Researchers believe that this may be due to the negative impacts of blood vessel function. It is clear that the presence of any cardiovascular or diabetic problem could cause erectile dysfunction as well.
The link between ED and cardiovascular problems along with diabetes is more prominent among the people of 40-49 ages. Probability of ED occurrence among 31% of these people is a result of non-medical reasons. In 52% of cases men with cardiovascular disorders and in 73% with diabetes and CVD both had these ED problems. The risk id evident but it was found that it decreases with age.
There was a clear relation in erectile dysfunction and the low glucose levels or the undiagnosed diabetes. It may result in to diabetes any time. Presence of metabolic syndrome can also bring in the erectile dysfunction and initiate a cluster of heart disease risks.
Undiagnosed heart problems may also be triggered by the erectile dysfunction in the same way. Therefore the presence of erectile dysfunction may be an indication of presence of any heart problem. Erectile dysfunction can even be considered as a warning for incoming of unsuspected heart problems.
The ‘prostate cancer prevention trials(PCPT)’ conducted on people above the age of 55 years and above were also conducted for testing the advantages of ‘finasteride’ in preventing prostate cancer with an involvement of more than 19,000 men.
In a separate study which includes analysis of data collected from 4,247 men in the placebo group and who did not have any erectile dysfunction or cardiovascular problem before the PCPT shows that after a period of five years 57% of men had erectile dysfunction development. After seven years this percentage jumped to almost 65%.This follow up for seven years revealed that those who developed erectile dysfunction had 25% more risk of having some kind of cardiovascular disorder compared to those who did not have any ED.
Erectile dysfunction has also been found to be associated with smoking and family history of heart attacks. ED is therefore not just the lifestyle resulting effect. Popular erectile dysfunction treating drugs like Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis have also been found to be linked with heart related side effects.
Common ED drugs bring dilation effects in blood vessels. The vessels that cause erection of the penis are also among these vessels. The dilation may cause sudden decrease in the blood pressure and could cause cardiac problems. In any case, such drugs should never be administered with the angina drugs that have nitrous medications.
