50% Of People Over 50 Suffer From Hemorrhoids

Today, I wanted to alert you to something will afflict 40% of the adult population (or more) at some point of their lives. It's called hemorrhoids or piles and it's basically any form of vein inflammation around the lower rectal regions.

Blood on your toilet paper? Itching in your anus area? Pain during constipation? All of these are likely signs that you may have hemorrhoids and it's no laughing matter � because although common, they can be annoying and embarrassing.

In the more severe stages, they can fall out like a lump outside your bottom. So what are some common mistakes that people make which contribute to developing this common condition? Even if you have these already, avoiding the following 3 mistakes can start relieving the problem gradually.

Mistake #1: Eating too much processed food

This can be a toughie for some people. However, it's known that processed foods create harder stool and troubles in digestion. This creates constipation and other issues which can lead to hemorrhoids. The key here, especially when you are suffering and trying to cure hemorrhoids, is to lower your intake of processed sugars and foods.

Mistake #2: Sedentary lifestyle

A lot of long term sitting can create additional pressure on the bottom area and this invokes the perfect environment for a hemorrhoid to occur if combined with a sharp force such as constipation or pregnancy (in women). The solution is to make sure you do not sit for over 1 hour at a time, and remember to do stretches that promote healthy blood flow.

Mistake #3: Intake of processed medication and creams

This creates the same potential problem as processed foods. Even many of the fiber supplements contain processed and artificial elements that can create side-effects elsewhere� and lastly they are not even attacking the root of the problem here.

The other downside of these creams which do no benefit is that they waste one's time and the hemorrhoid can get worse over time if the root problem is not reversed.

So try to avoid these 3 mistakes and you will not be contributing to any worsening of hemorrhoids. It's very important to understand these in our modern lifestyle of sedentary office work and processed, convenient diets.



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Deadly Medical Errors Still Plague U.S.

from WebMD — a health information Web site for patients

by Kathleen Doheny

May 20, 2009 — Little progress has been made to reduce deadly medical errors in the U.S. in the past decade despite a call to action in 1999, according to a report by Consumers Union.

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued an alarming report titled "To Err is Human," detailing the toll of preventable medical errors in the U.S; it estimated that up to 98,000 Americans die annually from them.

The report triggered a flurry of activity, including congressional hearings, introduction of legislative bills, and promises of reform. But today, more than 100,000 people a year still die from medical errors, says Lisa McGiffert, campaign director for the Safe Patient Project of Consumers Union and a report co-author. The estimate of 100,000 deaths is drawn from more recent data from the CDC.

"As a country we haven't moved forward as the Institute of Medicine has hoped," McGiffert tells WebMD. ''In 1999, the IOM said we should reduce errors by 50% over five years."

Even the 100,000 figure is an estimate, she says, because there is no centralized system for tracking and monitoring medical harm.

Measuring Progress Since 1999

In the new report, McGiffert and her colleagues looked at four key recommendations made by the IOM in 1999 to make health care safer. Here are the original recommendations, and the progress -- or lack thereof -- as assessed by Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports:

Implement safe medication practices. To reduce the 1.5 million preventable medication errors annually, the IOM recommended stronger oversight by the FDA, such as looking at safety issues linked with similarly named drugs and with packaging and labeling as well as conducting post-market surveillance to detect risk in drugs already approved. But progress is lacking, the report says. While the FDA reviews new drug names for confusion, few are actually changed, it contends. And just 17% of hospitals use computerized physician-order-entry systems, according to a 2008 survey, even though the systems have been shown to reduce drug errors. No reliable system is available nationally to disclose medication errors by facility, the report says.

Create accountability through transparency. In the original report, the IOM recommended two national reporting systems for medical errors: one voluntary that would be confidential to help health care providers learn from mistakes and another mandatory that would make mistakes public. Progress has been made mainly with the voluntary system, says McGiffert. ''The public has not been given the information to know whether we are safer now than we were then," she says. She notes that 24 states don't have any medical error reporting systems in place; most that do don't publicize facility-specific information to the public.

Measure the problem. In the original report, the IOM called for a Center for Patient Safety to be set up within the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). But while the AHRQ is trying to do this, the efforts are hampered by the lack of reliable reporting of medical errors, according to the report. In its most recent report, issued this month, the AHRQ reported that patient safety declined by about 1% a year in the six years after the 1999 report.

Raise standards for competency in patient safety. The IOM called for periodic tests of doctors' and nurses' competence and knowledge of safety practices. Many such campaigns have been launched in the private sector, McGiffert says, but the results remain fragmented, with no process to measure improvement on a national basis.

"Certainly there has been a lot of work done," McGiffert tells WebMD. "But we don't know if it's done any good. We have no real evidence we are better off than we were 10 years ago. There is no disclosure of information. There is very little information to grab onto."

On a positive note: "We have worked for hospital disclosure of infection rates," she says. "Twenty six states now have laws requiring it, and eight have actually put out reports."

What's needed, she says, is a national system, run by an independent entity, to track progress on health care safety.

Medical Errors: "Failure"

The new report is "right on," says Lucian Leape, MD, adjunct professor of health policy at Harvard School of Public Health and longtime patient safety advocate. The lack of progress in implementing the IOM recommendations, he says, ''is an immense public policy failure."

"It's hard to argue with the fact that we're not where we need to be,'' agrees Diane Pinakiewicz, president of the National Patient Safety Foundation.

Even so, some progress is evident, Leape tells WebMD. "There have been improvements on the hospital level with very little help from the government," he says. He is referring to the common hospital protocols to be sure the right patient is operated on, the right side or limb is operated on, and it's the right operation.

"We have done more in America than any other country in the world to increase patient safety," he says. But it's been done at the ground level, by individual doctors, nurses and hospitals, he says.

SOURCES:

Lisa McGiffert, campaign director, Safe Patient Project.
Lucian Leape, MD, adjunct professor of health policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.
Diane Pinakiewicz, president, National Patient Safety Foundation, Boston.

Leading the Way to Healthcare Reform

The monumental contradiction with the USA is that there are at least 40 million people walking around without health insurance coverage. They have no recourse to decent elective health service unless they are very ill to be brought to the Emergency Room.
In almost all the developed countries,health care is ensured by the government to be universally available to all the citizens.
What is happening in the USA?
Despite the very high GDP spent, 40 million people are still denied of good health care. Where did the money go to?
Something is wrong somewhere??

Swine Flu Pandemic: Where Did It Come From?

Is there any Conspiracy of Health for the sake of enriching a few? Difficult to prove but if this is true,this is perhaps a testimony to the theory of Globalization of Poverty.
Why on earth do they change the easily pronounced term Swine Flu to a tongue twister H1N1 A?

Cervical Cancer Statistics

It is well established that Cervical Cancer is caused by chronic infection of Human Papilloma Virus(HPV) in the cervix of female uterus.HPV is a sexually transmitted infection. It is notably interesting that the discussion on the prevention of cervical cancer starts from/with screening for the development of cancer in a chronically infected cervix. In fact, the prevention of Cervical Cancer should logically starts with the prevention of HPV infection. Many scientists and researchers fail to start from this more fundamental premise of the disease process for reason/s only known to them. Some have ventured into the prevention of the infection and discovered a vaccine against HPV infection. This has quickly taken up by the big pharma corporation and aggressively market it as if it is the sole panacea to overcome cervical cancer. The well established epidemiological preventive study which has demonstrated that Circumcision is a proven method to prevent HPV infection/transmission and hence cervical cancer has not received much attention by the researchers,media and medical practitioners alike.This is despite the exhaustive data being published in the high impact medical journal(one such article is reproduced in this blog).

'Advanced' robots for UK surgeons

Robotic Surgery is an example of hype in medicine/surgery. The development of Robotic Surgery is prohibitively very expensive, straining the health resources even the rich countries and leaving the poorer countries beyond its reach. At the moment, the most contribution by the robot is merely being a stable intermediary between the surgeons hands and the patients tissues removing perhaps the tremors and gross movements of the surgeons hands.One would think that this is a very expensive endevour to achieve a little feat which can be alternatively polished through intensive and well guided training of surgeons. There are some less developed countries that jump into the bandwagon of Robotic Surgery,persuading their governments to acquire such an expensive tools only to resign them to store rooms and gather dusts. Robotic Surgery is very far away from being used in routine surgery.

Breast Cancer Statistics

Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women in the whole world. Unfortunately, many women with breast cancers in the less developed countries continue to die from it.
It is well known that higher proportions of women with breast cancers in the less developed countries tend to present late and those that are diagnosed at all either refused treatment or embark on the treatment very late.
It is not a simple economic problem that cause death among these women.It is a complex socioeconomic problems related to education and false notions of disease and sickness in these cultures.

World govts race to contain swine flu outbreak

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical

WASHINGTON – The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria Sunday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Canada to New Zealand and the United States declared a public health emergency. "It's not a time to panic," the White House said.

Mexico, the outbreak's epicenter with up to 86 suspected deaths, canceled some church services and closed markets and restaurants. Few people ventured onto the streets, and some wore face masks. Canada became the third country to confirm cases, in six people, including some students who — like some New York City spring-breakers — got mildly ill in Mexico. Countries across Asia promised to quarantine feverish travelers returning from flu-affected areas.

The U.S. declared the health emergency so it could ship roughly 12 million doses of flu-fighting medications from a federal stockpile to states in case they eventually need them — although, with 20 confirmed cases of people recovering easily, they don't appear to for now.

Make no mistake: There is not a global pandemic — at least not yet. It's not clear how many people truly have this particular strain, or why all countries but Mexico are seeing mild disease. Nor is it clear if the new virus spreads easily, one milestone that distinguishes a bad flu from a global crisis. But waiting to take protective steps until after a pandemic is declared would be too late.

"We do think this will continue to spread but we are taking aggressive actions to minimize the impact on people's health," said Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Barack Obama's administration sought to look both calm and in command, striking a balance between informing Americans without panicking them. Obama himself was playing golf while U.S. officials used a White House news conference to compare the emergency declaration with preparing for an approaching hurricane.

"Really, that's what we're doing right now. We're preparing in an environment where we really don't know ultimately what the size or seriousness of this outbreak is going to be," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters.

Earlier, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the outbreak was serious, but that the public should know "it's not a time to panic." He told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Obama was getting updates "every few hours" on the situation.

In Mexico, soldiers handed out 6 million surgical-style masks to deal with a deadly flu strain that officials say may have sickened 1,400 people since April 13. Special laboratory tests to confirm how many died from it — 22 have been confirmed so far out of 86 suspected deaths — are taking time.

The World Bank said it would send Mexico $25 million in loans for immediate aid and $180 million in long-term assistance to address the outbreak, along with advice on how other nations have dealt with similar crises.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. were following a playbook of precautions developed over the past five years to prepare for the next super-flu. The WHO on Saturday asked all countries to step up detection of this strain of A/H1N1 swine flu and will reconsider on Tuesday whether to raise the pandemic threat level, in turn triggering additional actions.

A potential pandemic virus is defined, among other things, as a novel strain that's not easily treated. This new strain can be treated with Tamiflu and Relenza, but not two older flu drugs. Also, the WHO wants to know if it's easily spread from one person to a second who then spreads it again — something U.S. officials suspect and are investigating.

"Right now we have cases occurring in a couple of different countries and in multiple locations, but we also know that in the modern world that cases can simply move around from single locations and not really become established," cautioned WHO flu chief Dr. Keiji Fukuda.

There is no vaccine against swine flu, but the CDC has taken the initial step necessary for producing one — creating a seed stock of the virus — should authorities decide that's necessary. Last winter's flu shot offers no cross-protection to the new virus, although it's possible that older people exposed to various Type A flu strains in the past may have some immunity, CDC officials said Sunday.

Worldwide, attention focused sharply on travelers.

"It was acquired in Mexico, brought home and spread," Nova Scotia's chief public health officer, Dr. Robert Strang, said of Canada's first four confirmed cases, in student travelers.

New Zealand said 10 students who took a school trip to Mexico probably had swine flu, and on Monday it said three students in a second group just back from Mexico probably have it as well. Spanish authorities had seven suspected cases under observation. In Brazil, a hospital said a patient who arrived from Mexico was hospitalized with some swine flu symptoms. A New York City school where eight cases are confirmed will be closed Monday and Tuesday.

China, Russia and Taiwan began planning to quarantine travelers arriving from flu-affected areas if they have symptoms. Italy, Poland and Venezuela advised citizens to postpone travel to affected parts of Mexico and the U.S.

Multiple airlines, including American, United, Continental, US Airways, Mexicana and Air Canada, are waiving their usual penalties for changing reservations for anyone traveling to, from or through Mexico, but have not canceled flights.

The U.S. hasn't advised against travel to Mexico but does urge precautions such as frequent hand-washing while there, and has begun questioning arriving travelers about flu symptoms.

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Associated Press writers Mark Stevenson and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; Frank Jordans in Geneva; Mike Stobbe in Atlanta; and Maria Cheng in London contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

World Health Organization: http://www.who.int

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov

Homeland Security Department: http://www.dhs.gov

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu/print