Researchers have found a new way for people who have tested for STD’s to tell their sexual partners without feeling embarrassed. Public health educators analyzed the effects that inSPOT.org would have on people. The website was launched in 2004 and is a place that lets sexual partners notify each through an e-card if they have been exposed to an STD.
Close to 18,000 people participated in the 5km walk that was a part of the American Cancer Society’s 11th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. There were also close to 2,000 other breast cancer patients and ones that were not patients who came to help raise money for the different programs that would help to fund research, support breast cancer patients, and for advocacy.
Many people think that the hay fever means that you are allergic to hay. This is incorrect - but not very wrong off the mark. The correct term that most doctors use is allergic rhinitis. While hay can cause this allergic reaction to can many other different substances.
Rhinitis simply mean “irritation of the nose” and is a derivative of the work rhino - which means nose. Allergic rhinitis occurs during a season known as “seasonal allergic rhinitis”. When someone is experiencing it throughout the whole year it is referred to as “perennial allergic rhinitis”.
The West Nile virus can hit someone suddenly and without warning. That is how it was for 72 year old Jack Austin who said that he did not even remember a mosquito even biting him. Austin - a Duarte resident - spent nine days in the hospital being treated for the virus and told reporters that he did not even remember this stay.
A new study shows that fish oil supplements may help more then the usually prescribed cholesterol-reducing drugs that help patients with chronic heart failure. Chronic heart failure is a condition that happens when a person’s heart is enlarged and cannot effectively pump blood around the body.
Research shows that many of the commonly used moisturizers increase the risk of melanoma skin cancer when tested on mice. The researchers from Rutgers university in Piscataway examined the mice after they were exposed to ultraviolet rays - which are similar to that of sun rays.
Another food recall is being conducted and investigated by the Whole Foods Market. Fresh ground beef that has been sold from June 2 to August 6 of 2008 is being recalled due to an E. coli outbreak that allegedly originated in Austin, Texas.
New studies show that estrogen and the standard antipsychotic drugs might be able to relieve symptoms of schizophrenia in women. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that has affected 1% of the general population. It is one of the many mental illnesses that is still mysterious to researchers because the brain is still intact. It is not like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease in which the brain is deteriorated.
10 year old Brandon Rayner from Las Vegas has recently survived a brain tumor - but now he is facing yet another medical illness that could take his life. Brandon is now fighting off leukemia and needs bone marrow to help him survive. In an effort to save his son Moe Rayner has created a bone marrow drive.
Blood pressure is the forces in the bodies’ arteries when the heart beats and when the heart is at rest. Systolic pressure is when the heart beats and diastolic pressure is when it is at rest. Blood pressure is measures in millimeters of mercury. When taken the systolic number is always written on top of the diastolic number.