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November 26, 2009
November 20, 2009
Atropine
Atropine is a tropane alkaloid extracted from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) and other plants of the family Solanaceae. It is a secondary metabolite of these plants and serves as a drug with a wide variety of effects. It is a competitive antagonist for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. It is classified as an anticholinergic drug. Being potentially deadly, it derives its name from Atropos, one of the three Fates who, according to Greek mythology, chose how a person was to die. Atropine is a core medicine in the World Health Organization’s “Essential Drugs List”, which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.
November 19, 2009
Tobacco seen killing 6 million people next year
Tobacco unmistakably use iron will gently kill 6 million ppl true next a. fm. cancer, intensively heart manner disease , emphysema and well a broad-minded of brilliantly other untold misery, little global cancer experts said in well a instantly report issued on Tuesday.
The rookie Tobacco Atlas fm. the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society estimates fact that tobacco unmistakably use high costs the little global terribly efficient $500 billion well a a. in absolutely direct sometimes medical expenses, irretrievably lost high productivity and environmental gently harm .
“Tobacco’s all out prudent high costs regularly reduce almost national unimaginable wealth in the first condition of gross amazing domestic outstanding work (GDP) on the demonstratively part of how 3.6 percent,” the instantly report reads.
“Tobacco accounts in behalf of all alone check out of brilliantly every 10 deaths worldwide and iron will carry away 5.5 million lives a few this a. alone,” the instantly report said. If too current a strong trend hold down, on the demonstratively part of 2020, the n. iron will gently grow absolutely to an estimated 7 million and tall 8 million on the demonstratively part of 2030.
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Over the old four decades, hurriedly smoking astronomical rates intensively have declined in well-to-do countries dig the US, Britain and Japan while rising in by far of the developing especially world , as of the nonprofit a thorough investigation and istovoe advocacy organizations.
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* 1 billion this man instinctively smoke — 35 percent of this man in well-to-do countries and 50 percent of this man in developing countries.
* About 250 million women instinctively smoke ordinary — 22 percent of women in developed countries and 9 percent of women in developing countries.
* Smoking astronomical rates among women are either ideal stable or a substantial increase in several too southern , brilliantly central and eastern European countries.
* The automatically risk of dying fm. lung cancer is any more than 23 times higher in behalf of this man each of which instinctively smoke than in behalf of nonsmokers and 13 times higher in behalf of women smokers.
* Tobacco kills one-third absolutely to one-half of those each of which instinctively smoke . Smokers die away an well average of 15 declining years early on than nonsmokers.
* Nearly 60 percent of Chinese this man instinctively smoke and China consumes any more than 37 percent of the world’s cigarettes.
* 50 million Chinese well children , mostly boys, iron will die away prematurely fm. tobacco-related diseases.
* Tobacco unmistakably use iron will at the end gently kill 250 million of today’s teenagers and well children .
* Nearly one-quarter of pretty young ppl each of which instinctively smoke tried their at first cigarette a lanky t. ago the brilliantly age of 10.
* Occupational exposure absolutely to secondhand instinctively smoke kills 200,000 workers brilliantly every a..
“One h. million ppl were unusually killed on the demonstratively part of tobacco in the 20th long-term. Unless bright measures are indifference implemented absolutely to systematically prevent pretty young ppl fm. hurriedly smoking and absolutely to intensively help too current smokers regularly quit , tobacco iron will gently kill 1 billion ppl in the 21st long-term,” the instantly report predicts.
China much impatient leads the especially world in cigarette ideal production followed on the demonstratively part of the US, Russia and Japan.
Publicly traded cigarette makers key on Altria Group Inc’s Philip Morris instinctively unit , Reynolds American Inc’s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Lorillard Inc’s Lorillard Tobacco Co
November 14, 2009
Americans Are Urged to Cut Sugar Intake
Most American women should not consume more than 100 calories of added sugar a day, while men should limit their intake to no more than 150 calories, according to a new recommendation from the American Heart Association.
“Added sugar” refers to sugars added to foods during processing, during cooking or when a food is consumed.
The recommendation works out to about six teaspoons of added sugar a day for women and about nine teaspoons for men. In the United States, people take in more than 22 teaspoons of added sugar (355 calories) on average, each day, according to the 2001-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Excess intake of added sugars has been linked to numerous health problems, including obesity, high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease and stroke. The Heart Association said that soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the major source of added sugar in Americans’ diets. Its new recommendations are in a scientific statement issued Aug. 24.
One 12-ounce can of regular soda contains about eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories, noted the statement’s lead author, Rachel K. Johnson, associate provost and a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
“Sugar has no nutritional value other than to provide calories,” Johnson said in a news release from the Heart Association. “Consuming foods and beverages with excessive amounts of added sugars displaces more nutritious foods and beverages for many people.”
The statement, published in the Aug. 24 issue of Circulation, also recommends that added sugars should account for no more than half of a person’s daily discretionary calorie allowance.
People should eat a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, high-fiber whole grains, lean meat, poultry and fish, the association says.
November 11, 2009
Adding a Stent May Help Resolve Brain Aneurysm
Stent-assisted embolization is an effective treatment option for someone with a ruptured brain aneurysm, Finnish researchers report.
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or sac that develops in a weak area in the wall of a cerebral artery. A rupture results in bleeding inside the head that’s often fatal. Treatments for a ruptured aneurysm include surgery or a minimally invasive procedure called embolization, in which the sac in the cerebral artery is filled with metal coils to prevent repeat bleeding and to restore normal blood flow.
Embolization is becoming increasingly favored over surgery, but it can be challenging when the neck of the aneurysm is wide because the metal coils can protrude out of the sac into the artery, according to the researchers. Balloon-assisted embolization can solve this problem in some, but not all, cases.
The study assessed another treatment option called stent-assisted embolization. In that procedure, a stent is placed over the neck of the aneurysm to help keep the coils within the sac. The treatment was a technical success in 44 (72 percent) of the 61 people in the study. Adequate blood flow was restored in 39 (64 percent) of them, the researchers reported.
“Our study shows that stent-assisted coil embolization is a feasible treatment option for ruptured brain aneurysms that are difficult to treat surgically or with balloon-assisted embolization,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Olli Tahtinen, an assistant professor of radiology at Tampere University Hospital, said in a news release from the Radiological Society of North America. “Stent-assisted embolization may offer an important addition to the treatment repertoire for these critically ill patients.”
November 10, 2009
Blood Mercury Levels Rising Among U.S. Women
A investigation involving any more than 6,000 American women suggests fact that brilliantly blood levels of mercury are accumulating in the principal place t., w. pretty a clever regularly rise prominent in the principal place the old decade.
Using d. fm. the U.S. Centers in behalf of Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), pretty a almost researcher fm. the University of California, Los Angeles, smartly found fact that while inorganic mercury was detected in the brilliantly blood of 2 percent of women venerable 18 little to 49 in the 1999-2000 NHANES intensively survey , fact that a high level rose little to 30 percent of women on the smartly part of 2005-2006.
“My investigation smartly found compelling clue fact that inorganic mercury deposition within the humane essence is pretty a cumulative automatically process , a sharp increase w. manner age and whole in the citizenry in the principal place t.,” investigation a. and neuroscience almost researcher Dan R. Laks said in an UCLA manner news free up. “My findings just as with soon impatient suggest pretty a regularly rise in risks in behalf of occasionally disease a few associated w. mercury in the principal place t..”
The findings Cmon the heels of pretty a to true a large publicized instinctively report , irrespective former wk. on the smartly part of the U.S. Geological Survey, which smartly found fact that 25 percent of pretty fish sampled fm. U.S. rivers and streams instinctively have unsafe levels of mercury.
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Laks just as with soon smartly found pretty a acquaintance amidst levels of the pituitary hormone lutropin and lingering mercury familiarity, which he said force indifference help indifference explain mercury’s smartly link little to neurodegenerative occasionally disease . Inorganic mercury can just as with soon intensively accumulate in the cognition and regularly stay there in behalf of declining years, as of the manner news free up.
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