Health and Medical Care Tips
Optimal management of these patients, especially those with severe forms of the disease, requires more than the treatment and prevention of acute bleeding.
Keys to improvement of health and quality of life include:
Following measures help to control bleeding in hemophilia patient.
Treat Acute Bleeds
Acute bleeds in hemophilia should be treated early. Whenever possible they should be treated within two hours. [Read more...]
The autism spectrum disorders is a spectrum of psychological conditions characterized by widespread abnormalities of social interactions and communication, as well as severely restricted interests and highly repetitive behavior.
Incidence is expected to be around 6 per thousand [Read more...]
Short course chemotherapy is the treatment of TB using a combination of new antitubercular drugs in a fixed regime for a set duration. These regimes have shortened the duration of treatment of TB from the 12-18 months of old regimes using streptomycin, isoniazid, thiacetazone or PAS to 6-9 months.
These new regimes with nearly 100 percent cure rates are much more potent than the older regimes and fewer relapses are reported with them. Their potency, shorter duration of treatment and fewer relapse rates make them a very cost effective treatment of choice for TB.
The regimes essentially consist of treating TB in two phases.
Initial intensive phase (for rapid killing)
Several drugs are given in the initial intensive phase to rapidly reduce the bacillary population in the tubercular lesion. This results in the destruction of drug resistant mutants in the bacterial population and prevents their selective proliferation. In addition, the rapid killing also results in very early sputum conversion, which dramatically reduces the risk of transmission of infection.
A tubercular lesion has four different types of bacilli:
Group 1: Rapidly growing, active bacilli (most bacilli in the lesion belong to this group)
Group 2: Those in the acidic environment inside cells and in cavitary walls.
Group 3: Semidormant bacilli which show occasional spurts in growth (mostly responsible for relapses)
Group 4: Few dormant bacilli. (no drug is yet available against this group)
Each of the 4 drugs used in the initial intensive phase acts on different populations in the tubercular lesion. [Read more...]
Do you know the Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and School of Montpellier financed experts indicated that regulating ‘good’ and ‘bad’ levels of cholesterol can help prevent mood problems among seniors?
In a newly released issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry (http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com) written in July 2010, leading researcher Dr. Marie-Laure Ancelin of INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale http://www.inserm.fr) announced that gender specific regulation of cholesterol levels can help stop depressive disorder in the aging seniors. [Read more...]
Hemophilia is manifested by bleeding disorder. But it is more than a bleeding disorder and is complex disorder in terms of diagnosis and management.
Therefore the management of these patients requires a lot more than the treatment and prevention of acute bleeding.
Objectives of Care of Hemophilia are [Read more...]
Hemophilia is an X-linked congenital bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of coagulation factor VIII (hemophilia A) or factor IX (hemophilia B). Hemophilia A is more common (85% of the total) than hemophilia B.
When To Suspect Hemophilia?
Addison’s disease is also called as chronic adrenal insufficiency, hypocortisolism or hypocorticism. It is a rare disorder where the adrenal glands are not able to produce glucocorticoids and less often mineralocorticoids in sufficient quantity. The condition was first described by Dr Thomas Addison, the British physician who first described the condition.
Causes of Addison disease
Adrenal dysgenesis
This means adrenal glands which produce glucocorticoid are absent. [Read more...]
Polymerase chain reaction
With the help of PCR, millions of identical copies of any specific DNA or RNA sequence can be made. This sequence may be a gene, or a part of gene, or simply a stretch of nucleotides.
This is done by using highly specific oligonucleotide primers to amplify the target nucleic acid by repeated rounds of denaturation, primer annealing and amplification. The target DNA is amplified a billion fold within 2-4 hours, and becomes quantitatively enough to be detected by a variety of detecting system. [Read more...]
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