The following are the 5 best wrinkle treatments , which will not only remove the signs of aging but also provide a glowing and younger looking skin.
1.Wrinkle Fillers
Fillers are substance for achievement of desired cosmetic result. Doctor injects fillers to skin or beneath the skin. Fillers are primarily based on Hydroponic acid, silicon or collagen or combination of each of them. Hydroponic acid, naturally type substance found in dermis, may also be contained in fillers, that fills the house between collagen and elastic fibers. Hydroponic acid effectively attracts and retains moisture creating skin plump and supple.
Between wrinkle treatments, doctor fills wrinkles with previously mentioned substances. Effects are seen immediately, filler renew volume of your skin and turn out firmness. most frequently appeared facet effects are swelling and redness within the place of sew.
2.Laser Resurfacing
In laser resurfacing, a carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is employed to get rid of areas of broken or wrinkled skin, layer by layer. The procedure is also performed on the complete face or in specific regions like on the mouth. In several cases, facial wrinkles type in localized areas, like round the mouth. The laser will be exactly controlled so solely these specific areas are targeted. Often, the procedure is completed in conjunction with another cosmetic operation, like a face lift or eyelid surgery. Risks related to laser resurfacing embrace burns or alternative injuries from the warmth of the laser energy, scarring, and obvious lightening or darkening of the treated skin. It’s among the dearer choices for mouth wrinkle treatment.
3."Spa" Treatments
These fast, non-invasive treatments, that embrace micro dermabrasion and delicate chemical peels, are typically offered as "lunch-time" procedures in spas and by aestheticians. (For the safest and simplest results, make sure the aesthetician is well trained and works beneath the steering of a physician.) Yet, though effective at freshening up the skin's look, these treatments cannot address a lot of serious age-related rejuvenation desires.
4.Chemical Peels
With this treatment a chemical answer is applied to the skin inflicting the treated skin to peel off and get replaced with "new" (smoother, less wrinkled) skin. Used to cut back fine lines round the mouth and beneath the eyes, treat wrinkles caused by aging and sun harm, scale back age spots and freckles, etc. Not for severe wrinkles or sagging skin. Chemical peels are categorized in lightweight, medium and deep treatments. lightweight peels are rock bottom risk with very little to no recovery time. There are many do-it-yourself kits on the market however if you opt on this, perceive what you're shopping for and also the expected results. Medium peels and particularly deep peels are a lot of serious treatments (qualifying as medical procedures) with doable facet effects being swelling of the face and extended recovery times.
5.Wrinkle Creams
One of the simplest ways that to induce rid of wrinkles round the mouth is by applying anti-aging creams. the foremost well-known of those creams are made of retinoids, like Strivectin.Retinoids work by accelerating the speed during which skin cells grow and die,according to the Skincare Academy of Dermatology. because the wrinkle-affected skin cells slough, smoother skin cells are revealed,reducing the design of wrinkles round the mouth.
Strivectin is a solid name when talk about wrinkle cream as a wrinkle treatment. Strivectin is the wrinkle fighting hero which is clinically tested to provide good result on wrinkle. Read Strivectin Reviews to Know More what the people says about it.
Article Source:
http://www.articlebiz.com/article/1051550826-1-five-best-wrinkle-treatments/
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Obama says health care law is working
Seeking to regroup from his health care law's disastrous rollout, US President Barack Obama has insisted that the sweeping overhaul is working and warned Republican critics that he would fight any efforts to strip away its protections.
'We're not repealing it as long as I'm president,' Obama said during a health care event on Tuesday at the White House.
'If I have to fight another three years to make sure this law works, then that's what I'll do.'
Earlier on Tuesday, the administration released a 50-state report saying that nearly 1.5 million people were found eligible for Medicaid during October.
As website problems depressed sign-ups for subsidised private coverage, that safety-net program for low-income people saw a nearly 16 per cent increase in states that have agreed to expand it, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The White House is trying to cast the health care law in a positive light after the first two months of enrolment for the centrepiece insurance exchanges were marred with technical problems.
With the majority of problems with the sign-up website resolved, by the accounting of administration officials, Obama and his team plan to spend much of December trying to remind Americans why the administration fought for the law in the first place.
'We believe that in America, nobody should have to worry about going broke because somebody in their family or they got sick,' Obama said, flanked by people the White House says have benefited from the law.
Despite Obama's sunny presentation, officials are furiously working behind the scenes to rectify an unresolved issue with enrolment data that could become a significant headache after the first of the year.
Insurers say much of the enrolment data they're receiving is practically useless, meaning some consumers might not be able to get access to benefits on January 1, the date their coverage is scheduled to take effect.
source: skynews.com.au
Walking could prevent 37,000 UK deaths
Almost 37,000 deaths in England could be prevented every year if people walked for just two-and-a-half hours every week, according to a new report.
A further 12,000 cases of people needing emergency hospital treatment for heart disease could be stopped and almost 7000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented.
The study, from the Ramblers and Macmillan Cancer Support, also showed that just 150 minutes a week of moderate activity - such as cycling or fast walking - could prevent almost 5000 cases of bowel cancer and almost 295,000 cases of diabetes.
'People who stay active are less stressed, sleep better, have a 30 per cent lower risk of getting depressed and reduce their risk of developing dementia,' the report - Walking Works - said.
It added: 'Physical inactivity now rivals smoking as one of the nation's biggest health problems. Today it's responsible for 17 per cent of early deaths in the UK.
'Physical inactivity is the principle cause of a huge number of common health conditions including 10 per cent of heart disease cases, 13 per cent of type 2 diabetes cases, 18 per cent of colon (bowel) cancer cases and 17 per cent of breast cancer cases.
'But that's not all. Research reveals that being inactive increases your chances of developing cancer, heart disease or having a stroke by 25-30 per cent and can take three to five years off your life.'
Britain's National Health Service recommendations are for adults aged 19 to 64 to try and be active every day. This includes at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity such as cycling or fast walking every week.
The report comes after a study published last week found that postmenopausal women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer by 14 per cent. Those who were more active cut the risk by 25 per cent.
source: skynews.com.au
Kidney stones force rocker Vince Neil from stage
(CNN) -- "Severe pain" from kidney stones forced Motley Crue singer Vince Neil to cut short a show in Sydney on Sunday night and check into a hospital, his manager and a bandmate said.
"He was doubled over on his dressing room floor five minutes 'til show time and was told by the promoter to not even play, but Vince said he couldn't do that to the fans," guitarist Nikki Sixx told fans on his Facebook page. "I've seen Vinnie go onstage with broken bones, his voice completely blown out and torn ligaments but he never ever cancels. Just like an athlete you sometimes have to play through the pain, but last night it became to excruciating."
After four songs, Neil gave up and walked off stage and was taken to a hospital, Sixx said.
Neil, 52, underwent surgery for the kidney stones, band manager Allen Kovac said Sunday. "Vince is in the recovery room," he said. "All went well and we will know more soon."
"He has been having problems for the last few days with kidney stones," Kovac said.
The next show on the group's Australian tour, in Brisbane on Tuesday, is still scheduled, he said.
"The doctors said everything went well in the operating room," Sixx said. "I am going to the hospital to see him before I head to Brisbane."
"Vince is a warrior who has played shows through a wide ranging list of injuries. If there is a way to safely perform, he always does," Kovac said. "In nearly 20 years of managing Motley Crue, I can't recall a show the band has canceled."
source: CNN
5 Tips for Buying Your Own Private Health Insurance
Vision insurance linked to better vision
U.S. researchers suggest vision insurance was associated with eye-care visits, better reported vision and lower healthcare costs.
Yi-Jhen Li of the University of South Carolina in Columbia and colleagues compared the rates of eye care visits and vision impairment among working-age adults with vision insurance and without insurance.
Li said the study involved 27,152 respondents between the ages of 40-64 to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey 2008 and a sub-sample of 3,158 respondents, or 11.6 percent, with glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and/or cataract.
The study, published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, found about 40 percent of the study population and the sub-sample with eye disease had no vision insurance.
"Our study empirically tracks an important consequential, process-outcome link both among the total sample of respondents and within the eye-disease sub-sample," the study authors said in the study. "In both groups, respondents who reported having had an eye examination in the prior year, on average, had better vision. These associations highlight the long-term benefits of vision insurance for preventing eye impairment."
"Our study empirically tracks an important consequential, process-outcome link both among the total sample of respondents and within the eye-disease sub-sample," the study authors said in the study. "In both groups, respondents who reported having had an eye examination in the prior year, on average, had better vision. These associations highlight the long-term benefits of vision insurance for preventing eye impairment."
The study also found those with vision insurance were more likely than those without insurance to report having had eye care visits, had no difficulty recognizing friends across the street and had no difficulty reading printed matter.
source: upi.com
Yi-Jhen Li of the University of South Carolina in Columbia and colleagues compared the rates of eye care visits and vision impairment among working-age adults with vision insurance and without insurance.
Li said the study involved 27,152 respondents between the ages of 40-64 to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey 2008 and a sub-sample of 3,158 respondents, or 11.6 percent, with glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and/or cataract.
The study, published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, found about 40 percent of the study population and the sub-sample with eye disease had no vision insurance.
"Our study empirically tracks an important consequential, process-outcome link both among the total sample of respondents and within the eye-disease sub-sample," the study authors said in the study. "In both groups, respondents who reported having had an eye examination in the prior year, on average, had better vision. These associations highlight the long-term benefits of vision insurance for preventing eye impairment."
"Our study empirically tracks an important consequential, process-outcome link both among the total sample of respondents and within the eye-disease sub-sample," the study authors said in the study. "In both groups, respondents who reported having had an eye examination in the prior year, on average, had better vision. These associations highlight the long-term benefits of vision insurance for preventing eye impairment."
The study also found those with vision insurance were more likely than those without insurance to report having had eye care visits, had no difficulty recognizing friends across the street and had no difficulty reading printed matter.
source: upi.com
Battling the odds against pancreatic cancer
The fact that he’s battling pancreatic cancer long after most have succumbed to it barely enters Bob Maloney’s mind — until he does the most trivial, mundane tasks that will, in all likelihood, outlive him.
When he’s detaching the battery cables to their car in Queens, New York before heading to their condo in North Palm for the winter, he wonders, “Will Diane know how to do this if I’m not around in six months?”
Or will his wife of 22 years, Diane Curry, be left to figure out the task alone?
“I don’t think about any of that stuff,” she tells him, her eyes welling up. “I think about missing you.”
Maloney and Curry have had what few other with this disease have had: Time. Despite three surgeries, Maloney is alive nearly 3 and a half years since he was diagnosed. That number is an outlier for a disease that has the lowest survival rate of any cancer.
Three out of four people die within the first year of being diagnosed. A staggering 94 percent will not live past five.
Maloney, a retired New York firefighter, is battling in that treacherous middle ground.
“You live waiting for the other shoe to drop,” he said.
But if his example shows anything, he says, it’s hope. Hope for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and their families. Hope that this disease will gain more attention — November was pancreatic cancer awareness month, though most people think of it only as diabetes awareness month. And the hope that has made breast cancer and prostate cancer survivable conditions.
Hope that personal stories like his — and those of actors Patrick Swayze and Michael Landon, who died of the disease — will bring attention and, more important, research dollars to this cause.
“You have to try to make the best of every day,” Maloney said.
Why has he lived this long? Mostly, doctors think, because he listened to his body.
When Maloney felt a consistent pain in his stomach and side in July of 2009 for more than a month, he went to see the doctor. Statistics say that men are reticent to acknowledge a medical condition and worse about following up with a doctor. But when Maloney went in for a sonogram check of his abdomen, doctors immediately saw the tumor on his pancreas.
“We knew almost nothing about it,” Maloney said, “except all these famous people who had died from it.”
That afternoon, he was meeting with an oncologist. And 10 days later, he was undergoing an 11-hour surgery to remove a cancerous mass on his pancreas.
They had caught it early.
In the years since, he has undergone two more surgeries to remove masses that spread to his liver. And he has withstood two rounds of chemotherapy that zapped him of his strength and his hair. He lost more than 25 pounds and sometimes felt on the edge of death itself.
But mostly, he withstood, enduring long enough to see a life many other pancreatic cancer patients do not.
In these 40 months, he has lived another lifetime: He watched their two daughters get married; his daughter Tara had twin babies and Maloney and Curry were at the hospital for the birth; they’ve traveled, despite his condition, to Spain, Vienna, and Prague.
And for the last three years, he has participated in the annual Lustgarten Foundation’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Jones Beach, New York, along with his wife and daughters.
“A lot of great things have happened since he was diagnosed,” Curry said. “I hope we look back in 10 or 15 years and laugh about how we tried to squeeze all these things in.”
More than living his own life, Maloney wants to help other pancreatic cancer victims live, as well. It is, after all, the fourth-deadliest cancer.
But funding is a major obstacle. Breast and prostate cancers not only have the highest survival rate past five years — 94 and 100 percent, respectively — they are also the best funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Pancreatic cancer, which has only a 6 percent survival rate, receives only about 2 percent of the research dollars. No early-detection tests have been developed for a disease whose symptoms (abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, diabetes) can be overlooked.
Two of Maloney’s close friends — former fellow New York firefighters — died from the disease. One died within months, his cancer caught late — as are most cases of pancreatic cancer. The other, who was treated early, lived more than two years.
Maloney has seen that where there is research money, there is hope and life.
And he has shown, in his own example, how much one family can do with just a little more time.
“We’ve started to feel luck,” Diane Curry said. “And we want to do something to make a difference in the lives of other people.”
source: palmbeachpost.com
When he’s detaching the battery cables to their car in Queens, New York before heading to their condo in North Palm for the winter, he wonders, “Will Diane know how to do this if I’m not around in six months?”
Or will his wife of 22 years, Diane Curry, be left to figure out the task alone?
“I don’t think about any of that stuff,” she tells him, her eyes welling up. “I think about missing you.”
Maloney and Curry have had what few other with this disease have had: Time. Despite three surgeries, Maloney is alive nearly 3 and a half years since he was diagnosed. That number is an outlier for a disease that has the lowest survival rate of any cancer.
Three out of four people die within the first year of being diagnosed. A staggering 94 percent will not live past five.
Maloney, a retired New York firefighter, is battling in that treacherous middle ground.
“You live waiting for the other shoe to drop,” he said.
But if his example shows anything, he says, it’s hope. Hope for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and their families. Hope that this disease will gain more attention — November was pancreatic cancer awareness month, though most people think of it only as diabetes awareness month. And the hope that has made breast cancer and prostate cancer survivable conditions.
Hope that personal stories like his — and those of actors Patrick Swayze and Michael Landon, who died of the disease — will bring attention and, more important, research dollars to this cause.
“You have to try to make the best of every day,” Maloney said.
Why has he lived this long? Mostly, doctors think, because he listened to his body.
When Maloney felt a consistent pain in his stomach and side in July of 2009 for more than a month, he went to see the doctor. Statistics say that men are reticent to acknowledge a medical condition and worse about following up with a doctor. But when Maloney went in for a sonogram check of his abdomen, doctors immediately saw the tumor on his pancreas.
“We knew almost nothing about it,” Maloney said, “except all these famous people who had died from it.”
That afternoon, he was meeting with an oncologist. And 10 days later, he was undergoing an 11-hour surgery to remove a cancerous mass on his pancreas.
They had caught it early.
In the years since, he has undergone two more surgeries to remove masses that spread to his liver. And he has withstood two rounds of chemotherapy that zapped him of his strength and his hair. He lost more than 25 pounds and sometimes felt on the edge of death itself.
But mostly, he withstood, enduring long enough to see a life many other pancreatic cancer patients do not.
In these 40 months, he has lived another lifetime: He watched their two daughters get married; his daughter Tara had twin babies and Maloney and Curry were at the hospital for the birth; they’ve traveled, despite his condition, to Spain, Vienna, and Prague.
And for the last three years, he has participated in the annual Lustgarten Foundation’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Jones Beach, New York, along with his wife and daughters.
“A lot of great things have happened since he was diagnosed,” Curry said. “I hope we look back in 10 or 15 years and laugh about how we tried to squeeze all these things in.”
More than living his own life, Maloney wants to help other pancreatic cancer victims live, as well. It is, after all, the fourth-deadliest cancer.
But funding is a major obstacle. Breast and prostate cancers not only have the highest survival rate past five years — 94 and 100 percent, respectively — they are also the best funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Pancreatic cancer, which has only a 6 percent survival rate, receives only about 2 percent of the research dollars. No early-detection tests have been developed for a disease whose symptoms (abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, diabetes) can be overlooked.
Two of Maloney’s close friends — former fellow New York firefighters — died from the disease. One died within months, his cancer caught late — as are most cases of pancreatic cancer. The other, who was treated early, lived more than two years.
Maloney has seen that where there is research money, there is hope and life.
And he has shown, in his own example, how much one family can do with just a little more time.
“We’ve started to feel luck,” Diane Curry said. “And we want to do something to make a difference in the lives of other people.”
source: palmbeachpost.com
Your tummy fat can make you look young again
Believe it: That stubborn fat that has clung to your tummy like a barnacle on a crustacean’s shell? It has a purpose. And it’s not to keep you warm on a frigid winter day.
A clinic in the country has just introduced autologous fat stem cell therapy, or fat stem cell repair therapy (FSCR), a procedure that its proponents claim to have not only aesthetic, but also medical and wellness benefits. The treatment makes use of your own tummy fat.
FSCR is for anti-aging and skin rejuvenation, hair loss, and improved general health and even sexual function, according to Dr. Jung Kwang Seup, a South Korean-Brazilian plastic surgeon with a private practice in Seoul.
The treatment is also aimed at patients with diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as those with hematological, liver and immune disorders, said Dr. Jung, who was in town as a guest of Dr. Aivee Aguilar-Teo and Dr. Z Teo of The Skin Laser and Aesthetic Center (www.aiveeaguilarteo.com; tel. nos. 4033245, 5562533, 8280197, 4031982).
Dr. Jung has been performing FSCR for eight years. FSCR, he said, may also benefit patients with autism.
The first step is the removal of fat from a patient’s stomach through a mini lipo or lipo aspiration. The harvested fat is processed in a machine called an automatic stem cell isolation system. The fresh stem cell is then injected into the patient.
The fresh stem cell is intended to stimulate the patient’s body into producing new, healthy cells, to repair and rejuvenate the body’s tissues. The procedure takes two to three hours on an outpatient basis.
No risk for rejection
Fresh adult stem cells are typically harvested from one’s bone marrow, umbilical cord, blood or fat, Dr. Jung explained. Since it’s harvested from and injected into the same patient, there are no risks of rejection, unlike in the popular sheep stem cell therapy. It also doesn’t carry ethical issues, unlike the controversial embryonic stem cells, he stressed.
“We prefer fat because it’s easy to isolate from the body, and there’s a lot of stem cells in the fat,” said Dr. Aguilar-Teo, a dermatologist whose clinic pioneered the treatment here about six months ago. The umbilical cord typically produces less stem cell, and bone marrow tends to take more time to process and is, therefore, more expensive.
FSCR has been available abroad for at least eight years now, but it was only recently that everything has become automated: A state-of-the-art machine has been developed to ensure that the process is sterile, to avoid risk of contamination. If everything is done in the clinic, there’s also less risk of damaging the stem cells, which could happen if they are cultured in a lab and transported to and from the clinic.
n a recent demo at Dr. Aguilar-Teo’s clinic, a middle-aged female patient was put under twilight sedation in preparation for lipo aspiration. A minimum of 50 cc of fat is needed in one treatment. The amount is determined by the patient’s condition, and how much fat he or she has on his or her tummy or inner thigh, said Dr. Aguilar-Teo.
The quality of stem cell differs with every person. Age, state of health and lifestyle are key factors, said the dermatologist. (In other countries, patients are sometimes injected with the stem cell of their close blood kin when the patient, for instance, is too sick or too old.)
After one-and-a-half hours, the isolated stem cells—a syringe-full of pale-pink translucent liquid, derived from 200 cc of opaque, red-orange fat—were injected on the patient’s face and butt to achieve aesthetic goals. It was also injected in her joints—the patient was showing early signs of osteoarthritis, said Dr. Aguilar-Teo.
In some cases, a patient may request to have the stem cells injected in their genitalia for renewed sexual vigor.
Repurposing fat
“No matter where you inject it, it will spread all over the body,” Dr. Aguilar-Teo added. “It becomes part of the body, to stimulate the body to produce cells.”
In her clinic, they have performed full liposuction and FSCR at the same time on some patients, repurposing the fat removed from the patients’ bodies.
Dr. Aguilar-Teo’s husband, Dr. Z Teo, who was suffering from chronic knee pain that made him walk with a limp and unable to do any sport, underwent FSCR a year ago.
“If you’ve dealt with crippling pain every day, I can’t put into words how amazing the results were,” said the Singaporean doctor. “Since then, I’ve been playing tennis twice a week for two hours each time. And I’m running again. You see, if you take painkillers, and you ice and compress, you’re just getting rid of the symptoms; the problem is still there. The cartilage is finished. The point is to regrow your cartilage.”
As the person ages, the wear and tear on the body will require the patient to return for treatment “as soon as the symptoms come back,” said Dr. Teo. The frequency of treatment will depend on the patient’s need. “I haven’t had to do it in a year,” he said.
Dr. Aguilar-Teo clarified that “stem cell is not a cure and we don’t claim it to be a cure for any diseases… There’s no scientific proof, but we hope that it can also help chronic conditions. We can’t guarantee, but we can’t also discount that it could help.”
She stressed, “Stem cell is meant to repair. It aims to wake up latent cells to produce new ones. It’s meant to retard the aging process.”
A surgeon and an anesthesiologist are usually present during an FSCR procedure. Depending on the patient’s case, a dermatologist, an orthopedist or even a pediatrician may also be present.
There’s no age limit as to who may undergo FSCR, for as long as one has fat—on their tummy and in their bank account.
Dr. Aguilar-Teo declined to discuss the treatment’s cost, but based on rates for similar treatments abroad, good health and the fountain of youth certainly don’t come cheap.
“The good thing is that, you have use for your fat,” she said with a laugh. “So you shouldn’t feel bad.”
source: lifestyle.inquirer.net
New sleeping pill may help insomnia
Merck's experimental sleep drug suvorexant helps insomniacs fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer, early data suggest.
Later studies reported at a sleep conference last June confirmed the findings, says W. Joseph Herring, MD, PhD, Merck's executive director for clinical neuroscience. Those studies are not yet published, but they've been sent to the FDA in Merck's filing for approval of suvorexant.
"What we've seen here and confirmed in [the later studies] is that suvorexant helps people with insomnia fall asleep faster and wake less," says Herring, who led the published study. "It is effective over the long term and well tolerated."
The published study tested whether a range of doses, each given in a sleep lab to about 60 people suffering from insomnia, improved sleep better than an inactive placebo pill. Without knowing which was which, each study participant took either suvorexant or the placebo for four weeks, then switched to the other for another four weeks.
The main study measure was sleep efficiency -- that is, the percentage of an eight-hour night people slept. At the beginning of the study, participants’ average sleep efficiency was 66%. After falling asleep, they woke for an average 101 minutes during the night.
"There was a range of results, but generally sleep efficiency improved 5% to 13% compared to placebo," Herring says. "We also found that patients have 21 to 37 minutes less time awake during the night."
Every Bit Helps
That may not seem like a lot. But it could mean a lot to a person suffering from insomnia, says Richard Simon Jr., MD, director of the Kathryn Severyns Dement Sleep Disorders Center in Walla Walla, Wash.
"Insomnia patients seem to feel better and function better when they get 15 to 20 minutes more sleep," Simon says. "This is an intriguing study that shows this drug does improve sleep. That is big."
What Simon finds particularly exciting is that suvorexant doesn't work like other sleeping pills. Current sleep drugs enhance brain functions that increase sleepiness. Suvorexant inhibits orexin, a hormone that acts on the brain to increase wakefulness.
Brain levels of orexin are naturally lower during the night. While Merck has focused on developing suvorexant specifically for people with insomnia, Simon suggests it might be particularly helpful for shift workers, who need to sleep during the day when orexin levels are high.
Although Merck has not disclosed the date by which the FDA must decide on suvorexant’s approval, financial analysts suggest the decision is likely to come in the late summer of 2013.
The Herring study appears in the Dec. 4 issue of the journal Neurology. Simon has in the past consulted for Merck, but no longer consults or has financial ties to the company.
The study was funded and performed by Merck.
SOURCES: Herring, W.J. Neurology, Dec. 4, 2012.William Joseph Herring, MD, PhD, executive director for clinical neuroscience, Merck Research Laboratories, North Wales, Pa.Richard Simon, Jr., MD, medical director, Kathryn Severyns Dement Sleep Disorders Center, St. Mary Medical Center, Walla Walla, Wash.
source: palmbeachpost.com
Women smokers who quit before 40 gain nine years in lifespan
PARIS - Women can add nine years to their lives by quitting smoking before the age of 40 but still face a 20-percent higher death rate than those who never smoked, a study said Saturday.
Published in The Lancet, a survey of nearly 1.2 million women in Britain showed that smoking throughout adulthood chopped on average 11 years off lifespan.
These results echoed the findings of earlier research conducted on men.
Among women who kicked the habit before the age of 40, the researchers measured an average lifespan gain of more than nine years compared with those who never stopped.
For those who quit before 30 the gains were even bigger -- about 10 years.
"Whether they are men or women, smokers who stop before reaching middle age will on average gain about an extra 10 years of life," study co-author Richard Peto of the University of Oxford said.
But the paper warned this did not mean that it was safe to continue smoking until 40 before quitting.
"Women who do so have throughout the next few decades [of their lives] a mortality rate 1.2 times that of never-smokers. This is a substantial excess risk, causing one in six of the deaths among these ex-smokers."
In Europe and the United States, the popularity of smoking reached its peak among women in the 1960s, decades later than for men.
The Lancet study is one of the most extensive probes into the impacts of smoking on this generation of women, the first likely to have smoked substantially throughout their adult lives.
The research is part of a vast survey that enrolled 1.2 million women in the UK between 1996 and 2001. The volunteers were asked to detail their smoking history, and were followed for an average of 12 years.
The women were on average 55 years old when they signed up. Twenty percent of them were smokers, 28 percent ex-smokers, while 52 percent had never smoked.
The researchers found that the group of women who continued smoking had three times the overall mortality rate of never-smokers.
While the risks increased with the amount smoked, "Even those smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes per day... had double the overall mortality rate than never-smokers," warned the study.
It also cautioned against so-called "light" cigarettes, smoked by most of the women in the study.
"Low-tar cigarettes are not low-risk cigarettes and... more than half of those who smoke them will eventually be killed by them," the authors warned.
The key causes of death among smokers were chronic lung disease, lung cancer, stroke and heart disease.
source: abs-cbnnews.com
Published in The Lancet, a survey of nearly 1.2 million women in Britain showed that smoking throughout adulthood chopped on average 11 years off lifespan.
These results echoed the findings of earlier research conducted on men.
Among women who kicked the habit before the age of 40, the researchers measured an average lifespan gain of more than nine years compared with those who never stopped.
For those who quit before 30 the gains were even bigger -- about 10 years.
"Whether they are men or women, smokers who stop before reaching middle age will on average gain about an extra 10 years of life," study co-author Richard Peto of the University of Oxford said.
But the paper warned this did not mean that it was safe to continue smoking until 40 before quitting.
"Women who do so have throughout the next few decades [of their lives] a mortality rate 1.2 times that of never-smokers. This is a substantial excess risk, causing one in six of the deaths among these ex-smokers."
In Europe and the United States, the popularity of smoking reached its peak among women in the 1960s, decades later than for men.
The Lancet study is one of the most extensive probes into the impacts of smoking on this generation of women, the first likely to have smoked substantially throughout their adult lives.
The research is part of a vast survey that enrolled 1.2 million women in the UK between 1996 and 2001. The volunteers were asked to detail their smoking history, and were followed for an average of 12 years.
The women were on average 55 years old when they signed up. Twenty percent of them were smokers, 28 percent ex-smokers, while 52 percent had never smoked.
The researchers found that the group of women who continued smoking had three times the overall mortality rate of never-smokers.
While the risks increased with the amount smoked, "Even those smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes per day... had double the overall mortality rate than never-smokers," warned the study.
It also cautioned against so-called "light" cigarettes, smoked by most of the women in the study.
"Low-tar cigarettes are not low-risk cigarettes and... more than half of those who smoke them will eventually be killed by them," the authors warned.
The key causes of death among smokers were chronic lung disease, lung cancer, stroke and heart disease.
source: abs-cbnnews.com
Health Accord
PALO, Leyte – The first in the country memorandum of agreement (MOA)
on private-public partnership (PPP) on health for pharmacy was signed
between the drug company and the local government unit, during the
governors’ forum sponsored by Philhealth, conducted at the Oriental
Hotel, here, yesterday.
The memorandum of agreement was signed between the province of Northern Samar represented by Governor Paul Daza and Planet Drugstore, Incorporated, based in Metro Manila, represented by its president Erwin Zshornack.
In an interview with reporters, Governor Daza, said that the MOA was based on the PPP code which was adopted and passed by his province.
Governor Daza cited several advantages saying that the partnership between the drug company and his LGU will solve the shortage of medicines in the hospitals of his province with prices according to the prevailing market prices or even lower. He added that it will also solve the problem of his province on medicine procurement and wastage due to expiry and pilferage.
Daza said that the pharmacy which will start its operations on November 18, 2012, will also be opened to the public. The pharmacy will just pay the rentals for occupied space in the hospital owned and operated by the province and at the same time his LGU is entitled to 5.5 percent of the gross sales of the medicines.
The governor disclosed that the pharmacy will hire its own employees, operate and manage the pharmacy and will be opened 24 hours a day seven days a week. (Restituto A. Cayubit)
source: mb.com.ph
The memorandum of agreement was signed between the province of Northern Samar represented by Governor Paul Daza and Planet Drugstore, Incorporated, based in Metro Manila, represented by its president Erwin Zshornack.
In an interview with reporters, Governor Daza, said that the MOA was based on the PPP code which was adopted and passed by his province.
Governor Daza cited several advantages saying that the partnership between the drug company and his LGU will solve the shortage of medicines in the hospitals of his province with prices according to the prevailing market prices or even lower. He added that it will also solve the problem of his province on medicine procurement and wastage due to expiry and pilferage.
Daza said that the pharmacy which will start its operations on November 18, 2012, will also be opened to the public. The pharmacy will just pay the rentals for occupied space in the hospital owned and operated by the province and at the same time his LGU is entitled to 5.5 percent of the gross sales of the medicines.
The governor disclosed that the pharmacy will hire its own employees, operate and manage the pharmacy and will be opened 24 hours a day seven days a week. (Restituto A. Cayubit)
source: mb.com.ph
Singer Sheryl Crow unfazed by benign brain tumor
LOS ANGELES – Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year but she does not worry about it because it is benign, the singer-songwriter told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In a story posted on the newspaper’s website on Tuesday, Crow, whose hits include “All I Wanna Do” and “Soak Up the Sun,” said the tumor was discovered when she went to a hospital to be tested because she was experiencing memory loss.
“I haven’t really talked about it,” she told the newspaper’s nightclub and entertainment reporter Doug Elfman, “In November, I found out I have a brain tumor. But it’s benign, so I don’t have to worry about it. But it gives me a fit.”
A representative for the singer was not immediately available for comment.
Crow told the Review-Journal that she has a history of memory loss dating back to the 1990s when she forgot the lyrics to her hit “A Change Would Do You Good” while singing in a show in Las Vegas.
“I worried about my memory so much that I went and got an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). And I found out I have a brain tumor,” she said. “And I was like, ‘See? I knew there was something wrong.”
She made headlines in May when she forgot words to “Soak Up the Sun” at a show in St. Petersburg, Florida. Onstage at the time, she joked, “I’m 50. What can I say!”
Crow, who has two children, was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2006, which was successfully treated that year.
source: interaksyon.com
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)