Archive for the ‘Medical’ Category

The Combination Therapy

Posted by admin on July 19th, 2011

Have you ever encounter the medical term like “Combination Therapy”? Maybe some do, but how about the others who don’t have any idea yet in this regard? The following details that I will mention here will give you idea:

The Combination Therapy (also known as Polytherapy) is use to undergo more than one medication or other therapy. However this is different from the term monotherapy which is use by itself. Most patients who were treated with combination therapy include tuberculosis, leprosy, cancer, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. Because the treatment in a single disease needs a simultaneous administration of two or more medications, combination therapy is most often applied. In the other hand, this expression can be also used when other types of therapy are used at the same time like combination of medications and talk therapy for treating a depressed patient.

To accomplish fully this kind of medication, the combination therapy, the patient will be given a separate drugs or combination drugs which are a dosage form that contains more than one active ingredient. The major benefit of combination therapy is to lessen the development of drug resistance and consequently, other benefits are lower treatment failure rate, lower case-fatal outcome ratios and less expense needed for the development of new drugs.

The Medical Diagnosis

Posted by admin on June 15th, 2011

How do you understand the term diagnosis? Have you already undergone such procedures? To give you idea regarding this term, the following details that I will mention here will help.

Yes, the medical diagnosis is the process of endeavoring to determine or identify a possible disease or disorder. The diagnostic procedure involves classification tests (this is a procedure in which the population set are each allocates to one of the classes).

But why must a person needs to undergo diagnosis? Yes, because through diagnosis, the individual’s condition will be classify into separate and distinct categories that allow the medical decisions what sort of treatment and prognosis are needed. Other details regarding diagnostic procedure are as follows:

  • The detection of any deviation, known as normal – this will measure the patient’s current condition compared to those who are normal.
  • Complaint expressed by a patient
  • The indication to perform diagnostic procedure, like watching patient from waiting room before or has started to present any complaints.

Even in the ongoing diagnostic procedure, there can be an indication to perform another diagnostic procedure and this may occur as a result of an incidental finding of sign unrelated to the parameter of interest and as radiological studies like magnetic resonance imaging or blood test panels.

What is Cardiology?

Posted by admin on May 21st, 2011

What do you know about Cardiology? In medical terms, this is the medical specialty dealing with the disorders of the human heart and in this field it includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects as follows:

  • Coronary artery disease – the heart cannot receive enough oxygen and nutrients from the blood.
  • Heart failure (Cardiac arrest) – failure in proper construction of the heart
  • Vascular heart disease
  • Electrophysiology

Those physicians who are specialized in this field are called Cardiologists. This is different from cardiac surgeons, cardiothoracic and cardiovascular which pertains to surgeons who perform cardiac surgery via sternotomy. The normal functionality of the heart and the deviation from a healthy heart are the most concerned by the Cardiology.

There are many disorders occupy the heart itself but some are outside. In most cases, people are unaware or fail to recognize the main grounds of such disorder or failures. But if you think of it, there is main reason why our heart fails or has disorders? Yes, because of not keeping our heart healthy! So if we maintain our heart healthy, there is small risk to experience such heart failures or disorders mentioned in the outset of the paragraph! Why not find ways how you can keep your heart healthy? If you do so, you will find it worthwhile!

 

Nowadays, most women are suffering a disease called as Myoma. And because of this, women are concerned how they’re able to prevent or cure this kind of disease. But the question is, why there so many women were afflicted in this kind of disease?

The main reason of having this disease was still obscure, however this is usually occurs during the reproductive years of women where they start to produce estrogen. During the pregnancy period or taking birth control pills, it quickly grows where the body produces more estrogen and stops during menopausal or during a low level of estrogen. The development of Myoma comes from synthetic chemicals and from our food usually from commercial cattle and chicken, laundry detergents, and lotions that imitate estrogen.

In most cases, patients whose suffering this kind of disease is usually prescribe synthetic medicines such as steroids, however this later result to risky side effects in the different organs in the body.

However in the 20th century, according to one reference, one Doctor had discovered a cure for Myoma without undergoing surgery. This term was called Healing Formula, where in right combination of natural elements and herbal combination are used. By making use of right vitamins and minerals that are needed in the body, this will helps our body to cure itself.

What causes breast cancer and how it will treat?

Posted by admin on February 21st, 2011

Risk factors that increase the chance to developing breast cancer are many. Some of these we already knew, however we don’t know how these factors cause the development of a cancer cell. But to help us understand how, here are some risk factors that we need to consider:

Like for example, the menstrual cycle of women started at a younger age before 12 years old or menopausal later after 55 years old have a slightly increased risk. However, the higher risk for women to have breast cancer is when breast tissue is in dense volume. Other risk factors, such as exposure to previous chest radiation, having no children, being over weight, use of oral contraceptives in the last 10 years, using combined hormone therapy after menopausal and alcoholic use increases the risk of breast cancer.

By avoiding such factors, chances to have breast cancer will be reduced. But what if you already obtained breast cancer, what kind of treatment will be used? Treatment for patient who suffer breast cancer have many options and need to discuss with your health-care team. The following are the basic treatment modalities that are used for the treatment of breast cancer, like surgery, breast-conserving surgery, mastectomy, radical mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy, radiation therapy, external beam radiation, brachytherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, targeting HER2/Neu protein, drugs that target new tumor blood vessels, and alternative treatments.

Why not discuss these treatments with your health-care team?