Archive for December, 2007

The study is mainly about the link between body weight and infertility in women who ovulate normally.

According to the studies, obesity can cause infertility problems in ovulating women. In the view of past studies, obesity is a known risk factor for ovulating problems, but the new studies have shown that obesity can even cause infertility in women who ovulate normally.

Severe obese people are 43 percent less likely to get pregnancy than normal weight women. Obesity is another risk factor for infertility in women who have regular menstrual cycles.

The study said that the disruptions in the hormone leptin regulate the appetite and energy expenditure. This condition can prevent the successful fertilization in women.

To know more on how obesity is connected with infertility, visit:

http://www.webmd.com/

Although there is advancement in the techniques of abortion, there are people who don’t realize that it is actually a dangerous procedure and still have a higher possibility of negative physical side effects, and also certain negative emotional side effects.

Abortion is a process that disrupts one of the primary functions of the human body where physical and emotional problems may occur due to ending of pregnancy.

The causes of abortion may be pathological changes in the ovum, the uterus, or in both. It may be due to inherited or acquired diseases (syphilis [Syphilis Symptoms], tuberculosis, chlamydia [Chlamydia Vaccine]). It may be induced with the help of drugs, or instruments, or both.

Generally, abortions performed by trained, licensed health care providers are generally very safe. Moreover, the occurrence of the effects of abortion when it is done by trained health care professional is very low.

It is found that according to national statistics, about 10% of women undergoing induced abortion experience immediate abortion effects, of that one-fifth are major effects to the health.

Over one hundred effects of abortion can come across with an induced abortion. The minor effects of abortion are: infections (minor), fevers, vomiting, bleeding, gastro-intestinal troubles, chronic abdominal pain, and Rh sensitization.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus in short HIV is a retrovirus.

The rate of this virus is increasing day-by-day because of no cure.

However, an antiretroviral medication is available to control HIV virus.

HIV treatment through antiretroviral medications is known as Combined Antiretroviral Therapy or Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).

The antiretroviral medications are also known as antiretrovirals, anti-HIV drugs or HIV antiviral drugs.

HAART is a combination of various anti-HIV drugs to fight against HIV and slow down the copying of HIV in your body. Remember that HIV treatment with antiretroviral medications cannot cure HIV, it only control the HIV virus from making copies of it.

This HIV treatment option is currently recommended by United States National Institutes of Health to all HIV patients as a way to control the virus and to remain strong and healthy for very long time.

It is estimated that over sixty million people all over the world are with HIV infection. Approximately fourteen thousand new HIV cases are raising each day and half of these are young adults below age twenty-five.

Birth control, also known as contraception is a preventive measure for controlling the possibility of becoming pregnancy.

It can be done through several different birth control methods.

Some of the birth control methods also help in preventing sexual transmitted diseases.

The diseases that can be transmitted through sexual intercourse with an infected person are called sexual transmitted diseases. Examples are gonorrhea, genital warts, syphilis, and chlamydia.

The most common and widely accepted birth control method is birth control pill. It is also known as “pill.” It is 99.7% effective in preventing pregnancy.

The pill contains hormones - estrogen and progesterone - to alter the ovulation process. In other words, the aim of these pills is to prevent the release of eggs by the ovaries for fertilization.

Combined pills, emergency contraceptive pills, mini pill, and phased regimen pill are some of the types of birth control pills. The birth control pill should be taken one for each day.

Apart from its effectiveness in preventing the unwanted pregnancy, there are possible birth control side effects with the usage of pills.

Birth control pills are relatively expensive and typically needs a prescription of your doctor because there are several birth control side effects with the use of pills.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a kind of virus that causes sexual transmitted infections such as Plantar Warts, Common Warts, Flat Warts and Genital Warts.

HPV symptoms for each of these warts vary to a great extent, but will have similarities.

Human papilloma viruses cause all these warts, but each type of HPV grows only on particular areas of the body.

The virus got the name Papilloma Virus because certain subtypes may cause warts, or papillomas, which are non-cancerous tumors.

This is very common type of virus that most women get infected at some time in their lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, about 6.2 million are affecting with sexually transmitted HPV infections every year.

HPV viruses are a group of more than 100 types of viruses. Most of them do not cause major harm to an individual.

Actually, you have a high chance of being exposed to this virus with sexual relationships involving genital contact with an infected person, but only a few HPV infected women can develop cell changes, which can lead to cervical cancer.

AIDS, as we all know, is a contagious disease but how many of us really know about AIDS and AIDS symptoms.

Actually, AIDS stands for “Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome”.

It is the last and most severe stage of the HIV disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.

You get AIDS only when HIV destroys your body’s immune system.

Moreover, you need to understand that the term AIDS pertains to the most advanced stages of HIV infection.

Also, being diagnosed as HIV positive doesn’t mean that you are with AIDS because there is a possibility of being HIV positive, and not having AIDS.

Becoming infected with HIV and becoming ill from AIDS are two different things.

Mostly, it takes several years for the HIV virus infection to develop into AIDS symptoms.

Mostly, the AIDS symptoms are the infection’s results that usually do not develop in you with healthy immune systems. Moreover, you may experience no symptoms in the early stages. You can live with AIDS for years not even knowing of its presence in your body.