Archive for July, 2014

The skin is said to be normal if it does have a minimum of 10% water in it, however, 20-35% is the ideal range. An oily substance known as Sebum produced by the skin’s glands is what helps the skin from losing water. The sebum substance can be overpowered by some environmental factors causing the skin to crack since more water will be evaporating.

Having a back pain can be a symptom of very many diseases. The cause of the back pain can be a problem with the back itself or a problem with another part of the body. In many occasions the cause of the back pain is not identified and when the cause is identified these are the common explanations.

By the researchers counting the number of the prostate cancer cells, they have found out that them help the doctors predict which drug works best. From the clinical test of the drug Johnson and Johnson, a newly approved drug by Zytiga  the men who had the lowest level of the tumor that floats off from the main  tumor had the best chances of survival.

A fault in the Harvard affiliated hospital has led to a third of the world donated brain tissue for autism research being destroyed. A spokesman for the hospital has said that it’s too early for the hospital to assess the damage that was discovered the previous month in Mac lean hospital located in Massachusetts.

During pregnancy, most changes are noted in a pregnant woman. The obvious being, the growth of belly bumps and other things like craving for certain foods, which are normal and harmless. There are two other changes are high blood pressure and diabetes, which may have a long lasting effect on the heart health.

Recent advancements in the surgical and radiation fields have considerably increased the average survival time of the patient with brain tumor. These treatments have in fact helped greatly in reducing the growth and the size of the brain tumors.

In a new study conducted by Dr Richard Haynes of the University of Oxford in England and released on May 1, statins were said not to have an effect on the kidney function and thus won’t help individuals suffering from kidney diseases. Statins are drugs meant to lower your cholesterol levels in your body.

Did you know that you might be having a chronic disease and truly unaware of it? Unfortunately, this seems to be the case with most Canadians according to a newly released study that was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in May 2013.

Autosomal dominant interstitial kidney disease is a rare collection of diseases affecting the known functions of the kidney. In simple terms, the condition is characterized by: one develops a kidney disease and undergoes a kidney transplant and other diseases associated with acidic concentration in the blood and gout.

Kidney failure is simple terms means that your kidney has lost its ability to perform its functions in normal spectrum. Of worth noting is that it occurs in two stages namely: chronic and acute; where the former occurs in the long term and the latter is almost sudden.