Archive for June, 2009
It is really good news for those who are overweight but not obese as a new 
study has revealed that these extra pounds may add to you life span. So its no worry if you weigh a bit higher as it might help you live longer. The survey was conducted among 11,000 Canadian adults and the results showed that overweight people lived for longer time than people who were extremely obese or those who are underweight. The researchers also added that these results never compels normal weight people to gain some more.
Tuberculosis is a chronic inflammation in terms of medicine called
granulomatous inflammation in humans. The cause of this infection is a bacteria known as tubercle bacillus or mycobacterium tuberculosis which affects lungs and other tissues of the human body.
This bacteria have different strain out of which hominis and bovis infective to humans.
We have seen great advancements in chemotherapy and immunology but TB still its world widely distributed. More common in poor countries like Africa, Latin America and Asia. Some factors that can increase the incidence of tuberculosis are Malnutrition, Inadequate medical care, Poverty, Crowding and some chronic diseases like diabetes, AIDS
Swine flu which is the recent outbreak has started spreading all through
the globe and it requires that each and everyone take the necessary precautions to avoid it spreading. But what if even the health workers are not taking the precautions correctly? The study of the health workers of the U.S. who are affected by swine flu indicates that most of them didn’t take enough measures to protect themselves while at work. It seems like most them dint even mind to wear gloves.
In the United States deaths due to cancer are falling vigorously, this is 
because of better prevention methods they are using. This is a statement as per the cancer society annual statistics in the United States and the incidence rates are also going down. This report is well published in the society’s cancer journal for clinician: that was available earlier online on the 27th of May. In this report it indicates that the number of men with cancer has dropped by around 19 percent from the year 1990 to the year 2005, it also shows that the number of women with cancer decreased with by almost 11 percent from 1990 to around 2005.
