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Fertility Drugs for Treatment of Hot Flashes in Women

Posted by Admin | Posted in Health News, Menopause | Posted on 19-12-2009

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Treatment with Cetrotide, a Fertility Drug. Women who suffer from dangerous hot flashes before menopause can get relived by using fertility drugs like Cetrotide as per a new study. The 3 women who were involved in the research suffered from frequent hot flashes, as per the report of Hans de Boer, Rinjstate Hospital in Arnhein from Netherlands.

One women developed some symptoms after absconding hormone therapy. Another woman had breast cancer and underwent some treatment using estrogen blocking drugs. The 3rd woman was suffering from endometrial cancer and during treatment her ovaries were taken.

All of them responded well to treatment as per Boer. The women who suffered from breast cancer had many hot flashes and now she has only 2 everyday and has changed completely. She could not liver her life earlier but now she is very joyful and satisfied.

The fertility drug used for treatment of these women is Cetrotid which helps in controlling hormones that tell ovaries for releasing eggs. There are receptors for these hormones in brain cells which control the thermostat of the body. Centrotide can be given daily either through injections or self-administered through drugs. Two women gradually needed daily dose of the drug.

Price of Centrotide

Hot-FlashesThe drug is not cheap and a single dose can cost around 124 USD and the price can vary from one pharmacy to another. But after clinical trials, if the drug is found to be effective for hot flashes and is safe, then the demand can cause reduction of price.

And clinical trials are required. De boer is rapid in noting that though this study is enough, larger studies can tell us the overall reaction from different women and usage of Cetrotide for hot flashes treatment can be understood. As far as now, the treatment seems safe.

I have not found side effects with this treatment so far, but it can reduce the estrogen levels with premenopausal women and this can reduce their bone mass. But I don’t see any effect since the estrogen levels are already low in the women before pre menopause and for women who are treated for the breast cancer it could be beneficial. Though he has no interest financially in Centrotide, he has been talking with the manufacturer of drugs for placebo administered clinical tests.

Reason Behind Hotflash

Although every women who undergoes such menopause can suffer from hot flash some women who force into menopause by taking breast cancer treatment, can suffer from frequent hot flashes which can be painful. Hormone therapy can help in treatment for some women, but it cannot be helpful for women who have severe symptoms and hormone therapy is not recommened by doctors usually as there are safety concerns involved with it.

There is no clear reason behind occurrence of hot flashes but LIRH is a hormone that could be associated with hit. It can trigger the brain cells which control and regulate the body temperature and causing some reactions to make it hot. Centrotide can block these hormones.

COPD Risk Is Enhanced By Smoking

Posted by Admin | Posted in COPD, Health News | Posted on 18-12-2009

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Smoking is injurious to health. We have seen many advertisements and read several times about the disadvantages of smoking. But smoking is a growing fad among people and youngsters love to show their freedom and rebellion by smoking cigarettes or pots.

There are many people that smoke both cigarettes and marijuana and they develop greater chances of the deadly and painful lung ailment COPD as compared to people who just smoke cigarettes and avoid

Conclusion of the study

smoking-copdThe study clearly portrays that smokers engaging in smoking cigarettes and marijuana are at a higher risk- at least three times higher than non smokers to have developed COPD disorder that affects and damages the lungs. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – COPD chances are lower in people that just smoke cigarette.

This is one of the first studies that clearly depicts a relation between marijuana and tobacco as older people are at maximum risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease- COPD. It can be concluded that smoking pot may act as a catalyst that may enhance the chances of developing COPD. It also acts a deterrent that initiates unpleasant effects on the respiratory system in the human body as well according to study researcher Wan C. Tan, MD, of the University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

Risks

As of today around 12 million people in USA are diagnosed with COPD and the same number are unaware about the occurrence of the disease in their body as per the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. In USA COPD is referred as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. This dangerous disease causes a lot of problems in breathing.

This disease occurs because of smoking cigarette and you will be shocked to learn that it ranks as the fourth reason for deaths in USA. The connection between the lungs and tobacco is widely known very little known is about the repercussions of marijuana on the lungs. Even casual smoking of marijuana has adverse affects on the lungs.

Tan’s Study

Tan had conducted a study on the amalgamated effects of smoking cigarette and pot together. It involved 878 citizens of Vancouver. The subjects were considered tobacco smokers if they had imbibed more than 365 cigarettes in their life. If any of the subjects had ever smoked pot then they were recognized as pot smokers. The researchers had clearly laid out the definition for substantial marijuana smokers if the subjects had consumed at least fifty marijuana cigarettes.

The subjects in this study should have at least smoked for an average of 16 years and 84 marijuana cigarettes should have been consumed by the subjects so that clear conclusions can be arrived at.

COPD was medically affirmed by an indicative method known as spirometric testing. The frequency of of COPD in subjects that just smoked cigarettes was 2.7 times more as compared to non smokers. The degree of COPD was 2.9 times more that smoked both pots and cigarettes. The hazard of COPD is greater in people that smoke pot and not tobacco.

Hopeful Medicines For Cervical Cancer

Posted by Admin | Posted in Cancer, Health News | Posted on 17-12-2009

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The market is now having to 2 effective and promising drugs that diagnose the deadly and lethal disease of cervical cancer as per the latest research reports. Breast cancer and osteoporosis ailments have effective cures as the market has the wonder drug available for the patients. Patients will be very suffer if they can’t be cured from the cervical cancer disease.

Working Of The Drugs

HPVThese two drugs have really diminished the growth of cancer cells as candidly stated by the researcher Sang-Hyuk Chung, PhD, a research associate at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. Chung has clearly stated that if the disease can be transmitted then the chances of initiating other remedies are a great and a viable option.

There were several experts who examined the same and concluded that it is in absolute preliminary stages. And Chung agrees that it would take many more years of meticulous research and methodical clinical trials to achieve the same.

Case Studies

Approximately 11,270 fresh cases of insidious cervical cancer would surface in USA at the end of this year. As per the research conducted by the American Cancer Society approximately 4070 women would suffer and lose their lives because of this deadly disease. Some of the methods implemented in treating this illness include chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. The methods used generally depend on the stage of the illness.

Medicinal treatment- HPV

Chung and Paul F. Lambert, PhD, at the University of Wisconsin have scrutinized the drugs on mice that are hereditary constructed to take HPV- human papillomavirus 16 that is very intimately connected with this deadly disease.

In USA HPV is one of the most common sexually conveyed illnesses as per the CDC. There are virgin vaccines for the illness that are successful in eliminating some of the minor infections that have been caused and there are a variety of HPV disorders.

Causes

Most of the women that are patients of this painful and dreary disease have high chances of developing cervical cancer as the virus is cleared by itself. But all the women do not develop cervical cancer as Chung focuses on the hormone called estrogen as women are very stimulant towards it. You will be surprised to learn that birth control pills and various pregnancies enlarges the chances of developing the disease as per Chung.

The Mouse Model

According to Chung the mouse model essentially requires estrogen for the cervical cancer to develop. Hence both Chung and Lambert provided the mice with Faslodex that cures breast cancer and Evista that treats osteoporosis that lowers the hazard of breast cancer in women.

The drugs prevent estrogen from working in the cervical cells, according to the researchers. A group of mice were deprived of medicines. It was seen that above 90% of the mice that were given medicine did not develop cancer and Chung says it is hard to distinguish if one drug is better than the other but he is hopeful that one day one of them will be a remedy for the disease.