Archive for November, 2009

What are the symptoms affected by cholesterol?

November 29th, 2009

meat_foodsYou need to maintain health by improving healthy eating. Try you notice that one source of the disease comes from food. Sometimes “yummy” food is not healthy, and otherwise undesirable food but it makes a healthy body.

In this post, I will discuss about the fact that cholesterol would be useful information for you. I am writing this with CNN quoting as follows:
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Beware of toxic hepatitis Due to Allergy Drugs

November 25th, 2009

hepatitis-toksikToxic hepatitis may still foreign to most people. But if not handled properly can cause liver failure. Anything that can cause toxic hepatitis?

Toxic hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Toxic hepatitis due to liver affected by too much exposure of toxic chemicals, taking drugs or consuming a poisonous mushroom.

In some cases, toxic hepatitis can occur in a matter of hours, days or even months due to the use of toxic continually.

“Toxic hepatitis was divided into two, namely due to allergies and medications, but the most common are allergic reactions due to antibodies,” said Dr. Dante Saksono H, SpPD, PhD, when contacted detikHealth.
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Timing Pregnancy Test

November 20th, 2009

testpack-pregnancyPregnancy test kits currently used by the women to see if she was pregnant or not. Because before a doctor checks a lot of couples who checked with this tool first. But when the right time in order to get accurate results?

Pregnancy tests that can be used at home is usually useful to see whether or not the instructions pregnancy hormones called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) contained in the urine of women.

This hormone is produced by cells of the placenta the first time into the bloodstream when the fertilized egg and implanted in the uterus, which is about 6 days after fertilization. The amount of hCG in the body will increase rapidly the next few weeks and later doubled every two days.

Many pregnancy test results claiming 99 percent accurate and can be used as early as possible. But researchers from the University of New Mexico revealed most of the test results only sensitive enough to detect early pregnancy by 16 percent.

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