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Monday, 12 January 2015

CDC: Contact lenses to blame for a million eye infections each year


According to a new report from the CDC, nearly one million Americans visited a doctor for an eye infection in 2010. Some 58,000 went to the emergency room. Almost all wear contact lenses - but not everything.
The lens wearers actually know most of you do not wear glasses to bed or leave them too long without cleaning solution or exchange against another pair. But common sense is systematically ignored, so keratitis.

Keratitis is inflammation of the outer layer of the eye, the cornea, and it may be a bacterial, fungal or viral induced.

"People who wear contact lenses are the night for more than 20 times more likely keratitis," Jennifer Cope, epidemiologist and researchers from CDC, the Washington Post. "The contact port and do not take care of them is the greatest risk factor for keratitis. "

For the 930,000 Americans who visited their doctor's office for microbial keratitis in 2010 - for the million or so who made similar visits every year since and - suffered serious consequences. The problem can be easily treated by doctors if caught early enough. But unattended and keratitis can cause serious health problems and even blindness.

The CDC report suggests improper use of contact lenses will cost Americans more than $ 175 million in direct health care costs annually.

"Contact lenses provide good vision without annoying glasses wearers, but they can also support more susceptible to infections if they are not careful," said in a press release to be processed. "Users should follow good hygiene and care steps every time they wear, clean and help their contacts, store, keep your eyes healthy."

To avoid eye infections, the CDC recommends contact lens as follows:

1. Wash your hands with soap and water and dry before you contact lenses;
2. Make contacts before bed, showering or swimming;
3. Rub and rinse contacts in a disinfectant solution each time they remove them;
4. Rub and rinse the container with a solution for contact lenses, with a dry, clean and store the head with the cap after each use;
5. If replacement contact lenses at least once every three months;
6. Do not "complete" solution in the lens container; and
7. a backup glasses need help, contact lenses are removed.

Cannabis can help cure brain cancer, research finds


New research shows extracts of cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) can help cure brain cancer when. In combination with radiotherapy
Specialists in St. George University of London tested mice with brain tumors by irradiation, no treatment, only extracts of cannabis and cannabis extracts and radiation as well. They found extracts of cannabis and irradiation are used in combination to be most effective.

"Those who deals with both radiation and cannabinoids have seen the most beneficial results and significantly reducing the size," Dr. Wai Liu, Senior Research Fellow and lead researcher on the project. "In some cases, tumors effectively disappeared into the animals. This bodes well for research on human beings in the future. For now it is a usually fatal disease. "

CBD and THC are naturally found in the cannabis plant. CBD oils were also used for epilepsy, anxiety, depression, headaches and nausea.

Chemicals in sunscreen could cause infertility


Chemicals found in some sunscreens, shampoos and moisturizers that can lead to infertility in men, according to a new study.
The preliminary study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of State of New York Health Wadsworth Center about 29 chemicals that can be used in a class called type UV filter benzophenone cause delays in fertility in men.

"Some of these chemicals after absorbed by the skin, the body's hormones and endocrine disturbing process," a release by the NIH said. "The researchers found that men with high UV filter BP 2 or 4 OH-BP had a reduction of 30 percent of fertility, biological capacity to reproduce. Low fertility can take more time to have a result of pregnancy. "

The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The researchers say that other studies conducted would need to confirm their preliminary results.

"In our study, male fertility seems to be more sensitive to these chemicals that female fertility. Participants made more exposure to UV filter as a whole, but their engagement was associated with no significant delays pregnancy, "said Germaine Louis, Ph.D., Director of Health Intramural Research Division . population to Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development "Our next step is to understand how certain chemicals that can be both fertility or time to affect pregnancy -. Either by reducing the quality of the semen or the inhibition of the reproduction of an otherwise "

But do not immediately take the sunscreen bottles. Just called this summer, the US Surgeon General Cancer Boris D. Lushniak skin a "major public health problem," melanoma incidents has tripled in the last 30 years.

"The skin is the largest organ of the body, and how we care for our skin issues in more ways than one," said Louis. "Sunscreen is important for sun protection and encourage in all people to continue to avoid using sunscreen for skin cancer but could the people who are concerned about fertility at other ways to reduce their exposure to benzophenone UV filter. - That contained by the degradation of other products that the UV filter or by washing after back inside. "

Study: Premature birth now leading cause of death for young children


Premature birth is the leading cause of death among children under 5 years.
A new study, which counted and analyzed the causes of death of young children in the world, found that premature death now claims more lives each year than any single infectious disease.

Some 720,000 young children die each year because of health complications in premature births. Premature babies are at risk because their vital organs are often poorly trained when they leave the womb.

While the new study - published this week in the journal Lancet health - may not seem like good news, it is a sign that doctors are making progress in the fight against infectious diseases.

"The success we have seen in the ongoing fight against infectious diseases shows that we can be successful even if we invest in prevention and care of premature babies," Joy Lawn author of the study, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said in a press release.

Vaccines, malaria prevention mosquito nets, antimalarial drugs, antibiotics, anti-HIV drugs and other medical advances have reduced the annual death are for children under 5 But now helped investigate the money will start to change the risk of premature birth and health in a better understanding.

"Some 7,600 newborns die every day," said Andres de Francisco, a spokesman for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child. "We have an epidemic of premature deaths and newborns that one of the major challenges of the 21st century public health. "

Are some of the most premature deaths at birth are India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and China.

American Heart Association: Foods with trans fat linked to memory loss


As we approach Thanksgiving and foot shopping in second gear Festivals, monitoring group of world consumption against damage Toys (CLOCK) did his best to warn buyers of products, "designed and marketed for distribution by the security. "
The group hopes its annual "10 Worst Toys" list to keep toy bows and arrows and pen spinning on the hands of children - especially those who are too young to handle responsibly as dangerous goods.

Safety advocates say the CLOCK, the holidays are a time when companies ramp toys marketing efforts and capital to new trends, popular movies and TV shows did. Security is often behind the scenes to maximize profits, the group argues.

"To ensure toys look attractive marketing efforts are often not specific warnings and notes is a toy," the group wrote in a statement. "For example, the packaging of a toy vehicle of a child may also interact with the toy no safety equipment when the separate instructions for the product require a child to wear a helmet."

According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, there were 11 deaths related to children's toys to the age of 15 in 2012 reported 265,000 more children showed in the emergency room with injuries related to toys.

In addition fronds, rockets and bow and arrows bottles - to warn any results CLOCK eye injury - the list includes toys, like dolls and tools, with strangulation and choking hazards.

The list also includes the gun e SWAT, a replica weapon. Toy package contains the following warning: "This toy is a replica of a real weapon and is for entertainment purposes only, it is can not be used against all living beings price can be mistaken for a real weapon by officials of law enforcement and other ... "

Police shot and killed a young man in Ohio earlier this year, Airsoft gun confusion there. In a Walmart with a loaded gun

Slingshot pencil makes list of 10 most dangerous toys

The CataPencil marketed for children of all ages and is a warning to the "safe and enjoy." Sharpened pencils are designed slings are not marketed as toys on the market, warns CLOCK.


As we approach Thanksgiving and foot shopping in second gear Festivals, monitoring group of world consumption against damage Toys (CLOCK) did his best to warn buyers of products, "designed and marketed for distribution by the security. "
The group hopes its annual "10 Worst Toys" list to keep toy bows and arrows and pen spinning on the hands of children - especially those who are too young to handle responsibly as dangerous goods.

Safety advocates say the CLOCK, the holidays are a time when companies ramp toys marketing efforts and capital to new trends, popular movies and TV shows did. Security is often behind the scenes to maximize profits, the group argues.

"To ensure toys look attractive marketing efforts are often not specific warnings and notes is a toy," the group wrote in a statement. "For example, the packaging of a toy vehicle of a child may also interact with the toy no safety equipment when the separate instructions for the product require a child to wear a helmet."

According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, there were 11 deaths related to children's toys to the age of 15 in 2012 reported 265,000 more children showed in the emergency room with injuries related to toys.

In addition fronds, rockets and bow and arrows bottles - to warn any results CLOCK eye injury - the list includes toys, like dolls and tools, with strangulation and choking hazards.

The list also includes the gun e SWAT, a replica weapon. Toy package contains the following warning: "This toy is a replica of a real weapon and is for entertainment purposes only, it is can not be used against all living beings price can be mistaken for a real weapon by officials of law enforcement and other ... "

Police shot and killed a young man in Ohio earlier this year, Airsoft gun confusion there. In a Walmart with a loaded gun


Western diet, diabetes could spawn tuberculosis epidemic


New research suggests people with diabetes are three times more likely to contract tuberculosis, worrying health officials, the increasing size could increase the return from a long illness at the decline in the United States and around the world.
Despite decline of tuberculosis in recent decades, the disease was still millions of people each year. In 2013, nine million people have been diagnosed with a bacterial disease that primarily attacks the lungs. More than 1.5 million people died.

Now, experts from the World Health Organization and other concerns efforts, life-threatening illness could control the rise in obesity and diabetes affect rates worldwide. Since TB strains are not exactly rare - less than a third of the world population carries the seed - and because diabetes suppresses the immune system, there is the very real possibility of a co-epidemic.

This reality is increasingly likely that more and more countries of Western diets, fat and sugar to accept higher - and ultimately increased rates of diabetes.

Presented in a White Paper at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona last month, the researchers wrote that. "Diabetes is the engine of the spread of tuberculosis"

"With diabetes increases the risk that a person is sick with TB is," the report continues. "Diabetes is also more difficult for people who manage tuberculosis. And a sick person with both diseases likely complications that are not usually available when one is alone in this. "

"The reduced immunity peoples diabetes," repeated Dr. Anthony Harries, Senior Advisor to the CNN International Union said recently, a weakened immune system is more vulnerable to the threat of latent TB germs.

"Overall, we have more than 2 billion people latent TB," said Harries. "Put diabetes in this equation, and you can immediately see, there is a problem."

Harries and others say that we already have an idea of what a co-epidemics like tuberculosis and HIV destroys many African communities in the last two decades. Health authorities must act quickly, experts say, to prevent the same thing happening with tuberculosis and diabetes.

You can do this by waiting on the prevention and early detection test work in countries, increased rates of diabetes, how to experience India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia. Health authorities assume that life by 2035, 592 million people with diabetes.

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