Liver and its function

Liver is the largest internal organ in the body. It is also considered the biggest gland. Liver plays a vital role in metabolism and many other functions like glucose storage as glycogen, protein synthesis and detoxification of drugs, toxins and waste products from metabolism. Bile which plays a vital role in digestion is also produced by the liver. Many other high-volume biochemical reactions are also performed and regulated by it. “Hepar” is the Greek word for liver and many medical terms that start with hepato or hepatic are related to liver.

What is liver disease?

Any such disease as affects liver and its function is considered a liver disease. Liver disease often causes serious complications like jaundice, fluid retention, liver failure etc. Cirrhosis, hepatitis, fatty liver and some liver cancers are other types of liver diseases.

The real causes behind some types of liver diseases, particularly, those which present at the time of birth are not known. Some other kinds like hemochromatosis are because of inherited genes from parents. Hepatitis C and alcoholism are some common causes of cirrhosis in the United States.

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“Cell phones and other electrical devices can cause cancer among the users” it has been a heated issue for a quite long time.

Origin of this concept

The origin of this widespread concept is those scientific studies that suggest a link between cell phones and brain cancer is found. Similarly, many lawsuits and news headlines show concerns about possible link between cell phones and cancer. Almost 30% American believe that a connection is found between cancer and cell phones.

What is the real thing?

There are some studies that suggest a link between the use of cell phone and some rare kinds of brain tumors but according to some other well-designed population studies no such link is found between cell phone use and brain tumor. It is not an easy task to conduct precise studies to know the risk factors for some rare cancers like brain cancer. The biggest hurdle in the way of precise study is the collection of reliable data. In this connection, those studies that gather information from healthy people about latent risk factors and then follow the cases for many years to observe which diseases development can be relied.

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Defining skin cancer

Skin cancer is the malicious escalation on the outside stratum of the skin. This is called as the malignant growth in the theory of skin cancer which can be a fatal. The skin tumor is developed in two clusters of people such as spiteful melanomas and non spiteful malignancy tumor.

Skin cancer as a fatal

It has been emerged as one of the cancers among human beings, which caused millions of people to a death. About 1 million people of skin tumor are diagnosed every year in United States.

Kinds of skin cancer

The investigators diagnosed 3 types of skin cancer. These are as following:

• Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC)
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC)
• malignant cells (MC).

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Sky-rocketing global food prices are disturbing the developed countries of the world but in the developing countries like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan things are getting bad to worse with every passing day.

According to a report of UNICEF, almost 1.5 million Indian children may become malnourished because of rising food prices worldwide. UNICEF also reports that high prices of food can become dangerous for vulnerable women and kids all around the South Asia.

The largest number of malnourished children, in the world, is already found in this region and there may be an alarming increase in their number in the coming days.UNICEF says that even before the present food crisis, signs of stunted growth were observed in almost half of all Indian children.

On Tuesday, Daniel Toole, UNICEF’s regional director for South Asia, told in the Indian capital, Delhi that it was a perfect storm; number of malnutrition was increasing in a region where they were already in majority.

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Threat of virus

Germs are the warning signs of a disease, because they are erratic. These viruses are existed in the human body which can be erupted at any other time of life. Recently, the scientists have investigated that Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) could imitate a universal dogmatic protein to takeover common cells escalation’s system, distracting a cell’s most important anti-cancer method.

Dogma of cells

Cells usually have stiff dogmatic device in place to bind the reproduction to suitable locations, for example substituting depleted cells. Abandoned cells’ propagation could lead to tumor and many other chaoses.

Tumor suppressor

It is quite amazing to see the fact that the cellular running machine facilitates a protein known as retinoblastoma. It is the tumor suppressor protein, which is used to precise the cells escalation.

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Painkillers beget pain, isn’t it strange and somewhat shocking that can not be relied. But you believe it or not the truth is that almost one out of four headaches is considered the result of overuse of common painkiller pills.

Pain killers that are easily available over the counter and prescribed medication both can cause headache if they are over-used.

The over-use of these painkillers bring different signs of trouble including headaches that arise 15 or more days during a month and if these pain killers are regularly used ,this headache gets worse with the passage of time.

Cure has the ability to become disease and sometimes cure itself is a disease.
Almost four percent of Americans have to suffer headaches daily and scientists blame stress, Jaw disorders and some genetic problem. But a recent research suggests that the real culprits are those medications which use to get rid of these headaches. The problem is far graver than the scientists have been considering it. As almost 25 percent of all headaches are due to the overuse of these prescribed and over the counter available medications.

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Prevalence of Arthritis

Hot news has been published in the associated press that half of United States’ diabetic patients are facing the perils of arthritis.More stunning reality has come into front that the majority of American’ adolescents suffer due to arthritis.

Symptoms of Arthritis

The arthritis is a painful disease that affects the human bones, muscles, hands and legs.It is caused by the sudden swelling and pain of the joints and hands.A person would feel fatigue, irritation, and laziness due to arthritis.

Exercise is the best cure

Diabetic people have arthritis symptoms mostly.The major reason of the arthritis is the lack of care and exercises.Therefore the doctors of the United States have openly said that arthritis can best cured by the routine exercises.

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Nodulocystic acne or cystic acne is an intense kind of acne in which acne begins to develop into tiny cysts.Acne cysts are not true cysts in the sense that they are not irregular expanding of the skin structure but are nodule of inflammation instead.It is rare than other kinds of acne but it is not very uncommon and frequently found between the teens and adults.

Cystic acne usually occurs due to the blockage of a skin pore.The blockage takes place because of increased sebum or skin dead cells that fail to exit from hair follicle through the skin pore.Sebum is naturally found fatty oil that proves helpful to moisture the skin and hair and it is also essential for the skin and hair as without sebum hair gets thin and brittle.Skin also gets dry and hard.

Our body continuously replaces its skin and sometimes the dead skin cells do not exit properly from the skin and create a blockage in the skin pores.This blockage causes whiteheads, blackheads, pimples and swelling.

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An intestinal virus known as “Enterovirus 71” has caused 26 children deaths in china and most of them took place in the province of Anhui where almost 600 new cases were found on this Sunday.Children are rapidly getting infected with the disease and still one can’t see the end of that trouble that is on rise with every passing day.During the weekend china issued a countrywide alert to control the disease as it also spreading in many other parts of china.

Local authorities and healthcare officials have been countrywide instructed to report all new cases during next 24 hours.And it is expected that all new and previous cases will be reported before the allotted time.

The local authorities are being alleged that they tried to cover that reports, the local authorities are also becoming the victim of severe criticism in china as they reported these deaths without any serious intentions and didn’t show any concern to these serious deaths.

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ICDs (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators)

To continue proper heart pace majority of children with inborn heart disease is getting ICDs (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators).During 1980s ICDs were introduced for the first time for the adults but it is still not known whether they work in children or not Who are just 1% of total receivers of that ICDs.

The largest children study

The largest children study was summarized in a report of Journal of the American College of Cardiology on 29th April, 2008.According to the study, there is no doubt about the life-saving capability of the device but among children it gives more unsuitable shocks than it gives to adult and it is very important to observe those children that are have been treated ICDs.

Data from 443 patients

A cardiac expert at Children’s Hospital Boston named Charles Berul, MD, was the lead author of that study.Data from 443 patients who were the recipients of the device during 1992 to 2004 were analyzed.In this study pediatric heart patients and adults with inborn cardiac disease were included and the average age of the subjects were 16 years.

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