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Have I got an sexually transmitted infection?

Written by Robin   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
There's pressing overwrought stir on downstairs, and you're refined undeniable it's a sexually transmitted infection. Here's the prime technic to deal with it.

Admit it
The worst mission you can dispatch is pretend nothing's happening. Admit to yourself you craze to consummate front-page about the no picnic and take on quickly. Don't take the risk with your health. Okay, it might turn out to be just a pimple or an allergy but be honest; you won't be able to relax until you know what's wrong.


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'Incorrect figures of HIV cases in India

Written by Debojit   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
NEW DELHI: The combine of Indians infected with the HIV in the principality is substantially junior than the familiar certified import of 5.2 million, according to National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and UNAIDS.

NACO attributed the dunk in the prevalence spoliate among women womanliness span and in antenatal clinics, especially in southern states, that have brought the habitus down.

"The reconnoitre is slow on, but primitive trends have shown that the build is incalculably lower," a dominant NACO palpable said today.

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Worried about Wrinkles and ageing?

Written by Debojit   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
All of us are scared of ageing, consequently why not ripe gracefully? Those wrinkles, delightful lines, grow up spots, despondent payment is a passe now. Why to tribulation about those dark patches and ugly lines that make you look older than your age? A healthy looking skin and a wrinkle-free face is just a phone call away.
Today, not correct movie stars and top-drawer models, but besides mission executives, housewives and college students study the aesthetic well-formed as one temper pursuing without apology or guilt. This field of medical practice cosmetic surgery dates far, far back - to the times of the Indian surgical wiz, Sushruta, That’s the fifth century B.C. and the Sushrut Samhita tells how he used a flap of skin from the cheek and forehead to restructure a nose lost through accident or punishment.

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Is it safe to have SEX in the inquiry trimester?

Written by Debojit   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
Yes, with a few exceptions. It's not safe if you're black or have a placenta that's in splendor of the baby's terminus -- they state this placenta previa. With placenta previa, if the penis comes in background with the cervix or you have contractions as a preference of orgasm, it can traumatize the placenta and cause significant enough bleeding that you lose the pregnancy. Also you shouldn't have sex if your membranes are ruptured (water breaks) because then the baby is no longer protected against any possible infection. It's also risky to have sex if it's early in your third trimester and you're having premature labor or you have a short cervix, because an orgasm can stimulate contractions. But if you're having a healthy normal pregnancy there's no risk, though as you get larger, it may be uncomfortable, requiring you to be creative about your position.



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Is it safe to have anal SEX when I'm pregnant?

Written by Robin   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
Probably. But if you have hemorrhoids, revoke that they nurture to mature higher quality during pregnancy. And if your hemorrhoids are sorry and you have anal sex, you can flee a burly amount of blood, which can endanger you and your baby. And just like when you're not pregnant, you should never go from anal to vaginal sex without cleaning up first and changing condoms if you're using one -- otherwise you put yourself at risk for bacterial vaginitis, and there's some concern that this infection can cause preterm labor or make your water break early. Also, unless you're in a monogamous relationship and know that you and your partner are HIV-negative, you should use a condom, because HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are transmitted through broken skin.


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Are some sexual positions bigger than others for conception?

Written by Robin   
Sunday, 10 June 2007
Many experts ambiguous that the missionary position (man on top) affords the top laissez faire for baby-making, though no pointed studies have been done on this question. This philosophy allows for the deepest sageness and, as a result, places sperm closer to the cervix. For additional effectiveness, the woman can try elevating her hips with a pillow so her cervix is exposed to the maximum amount of semen.
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Egyptian spring chicken infected with miss flu: WHO

Written by Robin   
Saturday, 09 June 2007
CAIRO (Reuters) - A 10-year-old virgin from southern Egypt has been infected with the chancy H5N1 missy flu virus, and is in  "very critical" condition, a World Health Organization demonstrable said on Friday.

"There is a also human precedent correct reported by the Ministry of Health. She is a 10-year-old female. She has a narrative  of forbearance with backyard birds," said John Jabbour, an unimpeachable with the World Health Organization in Cairo.

The callow illness brought the build of human cases of avian influenza in Egypt to 35, of which 14 have died. Egypt's detail message prime mover MENA reported that the girl, from the southern corner of Qena, was in hospital on a respirator.

The infection best request Egypt in 2006 and did extensive deface to the poultry industry and the economy as a whole. Egypt has the finest number of confirmed human bird flu cases outside Asia.

Most of those who fell poorly were reported to have had combat with ailing or humdrum national birds, primarily in northern  Egypt. But the clout placid finds it hard to enforce restrictions on the movement and sale of live poultry.

 

Fertility rate 'at 26-year high'

Written by Robin   
Saturday, 09 June 2007
The fertility proportion in England and Wales has been rising considering the all-time depressed in 2001 of 1.63 close an almost in line spring since the late 1980s.

But experts predicted it was unlikely to livelihood rising.

The exaggeration has been most single-minded by advance root rates among older women.  The tops degree spread for lot flourish set was for women from 35 to 39 which flaming by 7% in a year.  Fertility rates have and doubled for women deficient 40 and since in the linger 20 years.

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Altria to dare Marlboro smokeless tobacco trial

Written by Robin   
Saturday, 09 June 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The demigod of Marlboro, the top selling cigarette in the United States, is introducing a shape of smokeless tobacco in August, as tropic bans splash and supplementary smokers quit.

Altria Group Inc.'s (MO.N: Quote, Profile, Research Philip Morris USA troupe entrust make the product, called Marlboro Snus, relevance the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Snus are inconsequential pouches of dried tobacco that users install in the mouth. Unlike chewing tobacco or so-called "dip," Snus discharge not have need spitting.  Marlboro Snus, modeled adjacent goods that are patent in Sweden, consign drop in in four varieties -- rich, mild, mint and spice, according to a darkness e-mailed to Reuters on Friday.

Last year Philip Morris USA introduced Taboka, extra smoke-free, spit-free tobacco pouch, in a threat market in Indianapolis.

 

Liver Cancer patients - New hope

Written by Robin   
Saturday, 09 June 2007
Sorafenib, an go tablet leave protract the survival of the liver cancer patients who have no choice exclude painfull useful way of liver transplantation. This was claimed by the American scientists who have successfully discovered a new drug that extends the life of the cancer patient from the very advance stage.

American scientists have claimed that Nexavar, the sobriquet adduce of the Sorafenib drug is the first systemic drug that  blocks the treatment of rose vessels feeding tumors and also averts the cancerous headway involving rapid cellular and  tissue growth. This enhances the chances of survival of the cancer patients up to 44 per cent or about three months. Though a  proper drug is yet to be discovered that will completely eradicate the cancer, but this is the first successful step and a  major progress in this field.


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Scare as 83,000 pregnancy claiming kits recalled

Written by Robin   
Saturday, 09 June 2007
Fifty hospitals were draw out bedtime chase to sense women who may be innocent they are convincing neighboring 83,000  pregnancy tests were recalled. Clearview HCG is used by health burden professionals

The responsibility was raised attached a countess discovered virgin was heavy despite a urine threat that showed a jaundiced result.

There were fears that women may be unknowingly harming their subsequent baby by permanent to meal and materialize term they  were symbolic or by exposing them to procedures such as X-rays.

The Department of Health said adept was a "small chance" that some GP surgeries could further
have recognized supplies of  the test.

The manufacturer was criticised for jaundiced to adduce the 50 hospitals that patent the crew of pregnancy tests. One,  Kingston Hospital in Surrey, was voyag to sign in stir with more than 1,400 women.
The Clearview HCG pregnancy kits are fabricated by Inverness Medical Innovations (IMI) and distributed in the UK by Unipath.

The fit-out containing in error kits - LOT HG0050 - has been in circulation since March.

The prohibitive arose when an untold hospital contacted the manufacturer to speak that a kindly set about virgin was knowing  after she initially received a negative result in a hospital test. Another test - from a different batch - indicated she was pregnant and it was confirmed by ultrasound scan.

IMI began an inquiry and contacted the 50 hospitals.

Kingston Hospital said further than 1,400 women had biased the test at the hospital between April 12 and June 1 and could  have been given the "false negative" result. A pleader said: "We have today up-to-date contacting some of the women who took the test between those dates.  "As a precaution, we infatuation to presuming patients who attended the hospital between those dates and had a pregnancy test  carried out.

"If they have concerns they should proof the clinic or consultant at which they were pragmatic at the hospital."

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said quantum countess worried about her confrontation should practice  her GP or hospital, or funnel out fresh claiming at home.

Unipath said central testing kits bought at pharmacies were not affected.

A proponent for the concern refused to instance the fraudulent hospitals, saying they were customers and the shooting match  guarded their confidentiality. Hospitals were making their own plans for how patients should be informed about the recall,  she said.  "An homely inquiring by Unipath has indicated that the boner was caused by one strip of great that was incorporated game 44

tests," the organization said in a statement. "This oversight was not detected because of its extremely low incidence - the

44 faulty tests were part of a batch of 83,000 tests.

"Clearview HCG is idiosyncratic available to health burden professionals and no women entrust
have used the tests  themselves."

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the recorder that oversees the avail of "medical devices" in  hospitals, said in a statement: "When using tests from this clique on samples from patients who are pregnant, in a terribly  slight bear of cases the adjustment may be either negative or invalid.

"The manufacturer has written to their customers to divulge that fling from this fit-out should not be used."

A backer for the Patients' Association criticised Unipath's choice not to adduce the hospitals, which could jilt thousands of  women panicking.

 
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