Posts Tagged ‘Health’
LONDON (AFP): Some new results showed by the Department of Health as ample amount of girls under the age of 14 containing an abortion enhanced by 20 percent during the period of 2007 leading a huge worry to the regime in order to use and counsel the contraception services both for young girls and boys.
While a statistical survey released on Thursday that the total number of abortions increased in all aging groups in England and Wales, but most conspicuous was the increase in extinction among adolescents as a higher proportion of pregnancies are terminated.
The Department of Health elucidated high abortion rate among 14s had gone from 135 in 2006 to 163 in 2007, an enlarged of about 21 percent.
There was as well a 10 percent increase among the under-16s to 4,376 abortions.
Kaye Wellings, professor of sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine highlighted about under14 figures that the raise in abortions in this age group hysterics the samples in women aged around18 by and large. That is a top percentage of pregnancies ended. Read the rest of this entry
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is being demanded by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to instantly issue its latest figures about the new cases of HIV infections in the United States. New questions about the actual figure of HIV cases in the United States have been raised after an editorial published in the esteemed British medical journal, The Lancet, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s remarks who is director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
The CDC issued its data for the public last time in 2005 and now it has been expected that it would show an alarming higher HIV rate and it is going through a through an attentive review process and that’s why it has not been finalized about its publication. This has been stated in a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter from CDC officials on November 26, 2007.According to some specialists there may be more than 50% increase in new cases per year countrywide.
A study published on April 9, 2008 in JAMA reveals that medical scientists got better results to improve the survival time for advanced liver cancer patients by combining one type of chemotherapy with another radio thermal therapy instead of each therapy alone.
Liver cancer is a worldwide increasing disease and it is described as tumors or growth on the liver. Most of these cancers are not diagnosed until advanced stages and at that moment no standard therapy works as treatment
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE)
The therapy called transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) sedate the progression of tumors and increase survival rates for patients by unifying two effects: that of targeted chemotherapy with blockage of the blood supply to the tumor. Another therapy, radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) is a latest technology that is usually performed using a particularly designed probe to apply radiofrequency energy after insertion into the tumor. TACE and RFA have some limitations and neither satisfactorily controls liver cancer tumors that are larger than 1.2 inches (3cm). The survival benefits for TACE used in combination with RFA therapy have not previously been studied.
There are certain common beliefs which try to distinguish between the motivating factors determining the attraction quotient in a man and a woman. The two common factors among them are attractive looks and earning power. The tradition belief says that women are primarily attracted with earning power of a man and a man is motivated by good looks of a woman. These two factors still hold well in the modern society too.A recent study compiled by two Northwestern University psychologists however suggests that the gender differentiation however doesn’t play a very prominent role in getting motivated by the two factors of attraction and earning power. In reality both men and women are equally inspired by either the good looks or the earning potential of his or her partner.
The study “Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Revisited: Do People Know What They Initially Desire in a Romantic Partner?” was conducted by Paul Eastwick, a graduate student in psychology in the ‘Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences’ and Eli Finkel, assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern.
