AIDS is disappearing infection

The disease AIDS in the coming years, may finally move from the category of "incurable plague of the 20th and 21st century" in the category of endangered viral infections. UN experts say that the incidence of HIV continues to decline.

In 2011, the diagnosis HIV   set of 2, 5 million people, which is 20% less than in 2001. AIDS deaths also dropped to 1, 7 million in 2011, compared with 2 to 3 million in 2005. Experts believe that the day when AIDS   even erase from the face of the earth, like smallpox or English fever. According to the UN, thanks to greater access of patients to medicines that can not only treat HIV But also to prevent new infections, considered particularly ruthless killer human immunodeficiency virus ceases to be such.

And that means the end of the epidemic AIDS and already in the foreseeable future. Presently available drugs for HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) allow to maintain the life and health of HIV-infected for decades. In many cases, the life expectancy of patients generally limited to the natural aging process, unless the body is somehow no longer respond to the drug.

The UN report speaks of "the foundations to be laid in the case of the final extermination of AIDS." The most affected by this disease are the poorest regions of Africa, where the infection is 1 in every 20 inhabitants (it is 25 times higher than in Asia). Since 1995, there has been widely introduced HAART, which saved 14 million lives.

In addition, studies show that timely treatment and reduces the number of newly infected people. In scientific laboratories, meanwhile, are some of the initial clinical trials of HIV drugs of the new generation that can theoretically achieve remove the virus from the body, or long-term reduction in viral load to undetectable levels.

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Cellulite: a long time to get rid of

The appearance of cellulite - alas, no secret. But the debate about whether to consider "orange peel" cosmetic defect or it is still a disease doctors still argue. For Alina Pirogov cosmetologist of "Clinics Danischuka" We have prepared four troubling questions about cellulite.

Cellulite - a disease or a disadvantage?

Cellulite - sustained for aesthetic medicine, the term denotes a definite cosmetic flaw uneven bumpy skin of the thighs, buttocks, arms and abdomen. The loose, warped, inelastic, wrinkled surface of the skin in these areas ... complaints about this flaw are among the ten most frequently encountered which patients were treated for cosmetologists.

Is cellulite disease? On the one hand, the initial stage of cellulite, according to most doctors of aesthetic medicine, is a normal physiological feature the female body Associated with structural features of a woman's skin, specific action female hormones   and their interaction with certain spaced manner endocrine receptors of fat cells. On the other hand, the development of the external signs of cellulite, and is always preceded by a hormonal biochemical imbalance, leading to morphological changes at the cellular level.

Cellulite threatens all women equally, or someone in particular?

Contribute to the development of cellulite in different processes the female body . This is all the result of a genetic predisposition, age-related changes, changes to the female hormones , Low thyroid function, disorders of the pancreas, adipose tissue blood flow, metabolism, and water-salt metabolism, pathology veins of the lower konechnosteyts, overweight, physical inactivity, poor diet, diets with sharp fluctuations in weight, stress, pollution. Women who are overweight often cellulite more pronounced with age becomes more noticeable than in lean. But this is not the general rule - not always adjacent to the fullness of cellulite: at slender women, even in lean and athletic, sometimes there is an expression of signs of cellulite.

What is the main cause of cellulite?

There are several .  Firstly, local hypertrophy of the fat cells .  Cellulite starts with local hypertrophy of fat cells that occurs under the influence of female sex hormones in the reproductive areas relevant to specific age periods .  The cause of hypertrophy is primarily an imbalance between lipogenesis (fat accumulation) and lipolysis (the collapse) .  Of great importance is a violation of microcirculation, which may change the usual processes in the fat cells and support has caused changes .  They play a role of connective tissue structural changes, each of which is surrounded by fat cells, as well as half-exchange problems that lead to the fact that the body begins to accumulate fluid is unnecessary .  In addition, for the appearance of cellulite is a skin condition value in problem areas .  Reduced tone due to age-related changes and deterioration of the microcirculation in the vessels of the dermis leads to a decrease in metabolic rate and slow refresh rate of the intercellular substance .

What treatment is most effective against cellulite?

Procedures should apply anti-cellulite complex. Create personalized meal plan and physical activity. It is checked hormonal changes and their treatment when necessary. Then, manual methods exposure in the form of massages, hardware techniques - ultrasound myostimulation, elektrolipoliz, lymphatic drainage, LPG - massage, pressure therapy, radiofrequency exposure. Connected ozone - and mesotherapy. Of the procedures, new products can be identified lipolytic mesotherapy When exposed to fatty tissue specific allopathic drugs which act on the deep structures and stimulate metabolism. Another direction lipolytic Mesotherapy   - Injection. For them, allopathic cocktails are made, which must also penetrate into the cell structure and enhance metabolism.

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Varicose veins are treated properly!

Patients with varicose veins, doctors often give incorrect diagnoses, as one of the leading US radiologists Dr. Douglas Lewis. These errors eventually lead to unnecessary complications and pain patients.

Dr. Lewis is a certified specialist in the field of vascular and interventional (invasive) Radiology, he works in the town of Atherton, California. According to Lewis, doctors often do not see or improperly treated   phlebeurysm . This leads to unnecessary complications in patients suffering and, as their disease progresses and eventually becomes virtually untreatable.

Output in this situation one - improvement of the diagnostic system. The sooner a patient is diagnosed phlebeurysm The easier and faster will be treated, and the more optimistic of its outcome.

"It is important to better prepare physicians in this issue - says Lewis. - But it is equally important to carry out preventive and explanatory conversations among all people. The person must be able to detect the disease at an early stage, in time to seek treatment. Only in this case, doctors can with a high degree of confidence to promise a favorable outcome. "

Among the most common misconceptions regarding Varicose Veins , Dr. Lewis pointed out the following:

- Varicose and spider veins it is - only a problem of cosmetology.

- Varicose veins and its symptoms such as pain, heaviness, burning, tingling and itching in the legs, are a consequence of aging.

- If you do not rush to treatment, it is possible to be at once a cure all.

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Doctors and nurses were allowed to treat people with HIV

While Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov calls to bury and burn body gay, citing the experience of the "Western" power Britain lifts ban on work with HIV-infected physicians, dentists and other health professionals. The ban remained for more than 20 years.

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Medical staff the public health system in Britain, which has HIV infection , Is now able to return to their professional duties. For example, HIV-infected   surgeons can perform operations. Earlier, there were fears that they could accidentally infect the patient, and for that same reason, lost their jobs dentists with HIV.

Lifting of the ban was made possible not because the government has agreed to subject patients to unnecessary risk. Current therapies HIV infection   allow to reduce the viral load in the blood to undetectable levels at which the probability of infection is practically zero. Therefore, these people do not pose a risk to the uninfected.

From now on, medical specialists will regularly enough to present a certificate of viral load, and it will allow them to continue to do their work after the passage of a special three-month observation period. All of these checks will be held strictly confidential. According to the head of the medical service of England Professor Sally Davies, this change will put the UK health care system on a par with other more advanced Western systems.

By the way, the government decided to legalize home HIV tests, which until recently were considered illegal in Britain. Starting next year, they can be used by anyone. (READ MORE)

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Doctor, I can not hear, or the causes of hearing loss 8

You should not assume that hearing loss can cause loud noises or only infectious diseases, as well as years. Among the causes of progressive deafness unexpected occurs even Viagra.

Experts have compiled a list of possible causes hearing loss That it seems interesting to many people. After all, most of these risk factors, we did not even know. So ...

Viagra   - US study involving 11,000 men over 40 years have shown that taking Viagra and other similar drugs doubled the risk of   Hearing Loss . Apparently, Viagra causes blood flow not only to the penis, but also to the tissues in the ear, which can cause damage.

Stroke - He not only can cause sharp hearing loss   or even deafness, and vice versa. If you have heard worse, it could be a sign of an early stroke, the researchers found both from Taiwan.

Dyslexia   - Many of us believe that this disorder prevents people from reading. But published in the journal Science, the study says that dyslexia also affects the brain's ability to process sounds.

Chemotherapy   - Research Scientific and Medical University of Oregon found that 61% of patients treated with platinum-based drugs during the course of chemotherapy, suffered   hearing loss .

Food Allergies   - Researchers from Georgetown University School of Medicine found that 78% of victims of middle catarrhal chronic otitis suffer from food allergies.

Tick ​​bites   - Usually they spread Lyme disease. If the illness not treated in time, among other disorders, it can provoke hearing loss .

Antibiotics   - The most dangerous class of aminoglycosides that treat severe infections such as sepsis or tuberculosis. They can cause permanent damage to hearing. Dangerous as medicines and malaria, especially quinine.

Diabetes   - Significantly more likely to cause amblyacousia Than is commonly believed.

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It named the best diet in the diet

American scientists from Indiana University found that the harm of diet with an emphasis on protein foods - the so-called Atkins diet - was at one time greatly exaggerated.

Recall that the first nutritionists expressed doubts about the safety of low-carbohydrate diet. And the Atkins diet, with its high concentration of proteins, in their opinion, could harm the kidneys. However, as it turned out as a result of recent research, some people protein diet   no harm. In particular, it is absolutely not dangerous for people with healthy kidneys.

Previously it was thought that high levels of protein in the diet increases the rate of filtration in the kidney, thereby causing damage to the tissues of these organs - like the head of research Alon Friedman. In order to obtain direct evidence of these concerns, Friedman and his team compared the effects on renal function of two diets - as a low-carb, and one that is rich in protein. And they watched - for two years - for more than three hundred (307) full of men and women who had no previous kidney no problems.

Two years later, researchers tested the volunteers how their kidneys.

It turned out that, according to Friedman, "In healthy people with excess weight, we found no evidence that a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein are dangerous to the health of the kidneys."

  At the same time, Friedman emphasized, there is no guarantee that protein diet will be absolutely safe for those who adhere to such a way of eating more than two years, or suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease.

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Which foods - from a cancer?

Cancers is not so little, but each of them has his own enemy - a substance inhibiting the activity of cancer cells. These substances are found in different products, and some are the real champions of the content of anti-tumor cells. What products and what kind of cancer it is necessary to have?

Milk products

Great source of lactic acid bacteria from the intestinal microflora of exempting putrid cell. Anticarcinogenic substances have been found in kefir and yogurt.

Type of cancer: cancer of the digestive system.

Grapes dark red grapes, red wine (1 glass per day)

Scientists from the University of Kentucky in the United States found that the bones and skins of dark grapes contain resveratrol ingredient that activates a protein that inhibits cancer cells. Researchers from the University of California have added their discovery proved that resveratrol is able to even inhibit the development of already established tumors.

Type of cancer: leukemia, cancer of the stomach.

Tomatoes

Studies have anti-cancer properties of tomato were carried out repeatedly. In the experiments, the Italian scientists and experts at Harvard Medical School, the risk of cancer with regular consumption of tomatoes decreased very significantly - by 30% and higher. The strength of tomatoes - high carotenoid lycopene, which does not lose its beneficial properties, if the tomatoes roast, stew-cooking. However, lycopene is absorbed only with fat.

Type of cancer: cancer of the esophagus, breast, lung, stomach, pancreas, but especially - prostate cancer, colon and rectum.

Oranges and tangerines

In these fruits contains 22 active compounds, including tangeretin, nobiletin and sinensetin who discontinue reproduction of tumor cells. A glass of fresh orange juice is enough to satisfy the daily requirement for ascorbic acid, which protects cells from malignant transformation.

Type of cancer: lung cancer.

Olive oil

It contains vitamin E, which (like the American scientists found) are particularly useful for women. The study showed that women with a high content of vitamin E in the blood of the possibility of cancer is 25% less.

Type of cancer: breast cancer.

Herring, salmon, sardines, mackerel

They contain omega-3 - a powerful antioxidant.

Type of cancer: breast cancer.

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