May 3, 2008

New York Breast Enlargement Surgeons

Filed under: Health Flash — john @ 10:20 am

New york, the city that never sleeps. Everyone wants to look different in new york, especially women. They always want to look THE BEST. Many women have opted for breast enlargement, due to many personal reasons. May that be to make body propotional or to reshape them after breast feeding. Surely, new york is the city of choices and there are plenty of choices available for those who want to avail them.

Many surgeons and doctors are present to help you out. You surely won’t opt for a surgeon who isn’t sure of what he is doing. New York breast enlargement surgeon are one of the best to choose from. Basically, there are two options for the cosmetic breast implants viz. saline filled implants and shaped implants. Where saline implant makes use of saline solution to be filled and comes in various shapes and sizes, shaped implant shows the slope and shape of the breasts.

Though new york surgeons are very good, that does not mean that you will get positive results for sure. Every surgical procedure has risks. Even though the doctor is highly qualified, the outcome of the surgery can’t be foreseen. A New York doctor said, “You need not worry, I have done many surgeries and they came out well.” What he never tells is about the surgeries that did not carry too good. Had that woman ever known about the risks involved, maybe she would have never undergone the surgery.

Before deciding to take any step, consult with your surgeon about the pros and cons of the implantment procedure. No breast enlargement product is safe. Remember, there is no use crying over spilt milk. Make sure you opt for what is the best.


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April 27, 2008

Inexpensive Family Health Insurance

Filed under: Health Flash — john @ 7:36 am

If you don’t previously have any kind of health insurance plan, or identify someone who does and who can pass on you to an immense health insurance company, the quickest method to obtain a quote is to possibly look for one on the Internet.

When you hunt for reasonable family health insurance on the Internet, you’ll to be requisite to respond numerous questions before you can acquire your family health insurance quote. Those questions comprise, but are not limited to:

Your location: This help determine whether or not the insurance company offers family health insurance plans in your area. If the health insurance company does not offer family and individual health insurance plans in your area, it may propose substitute health insurance plans that offer analogous exposure. Or, you may require hunting additional health insurance companies for a reasonable family and individual health insurance plan.

The sexual category and date of birth of the contender, as well as the wife and any children who are going to be integrated on the family health insurance plan.

The tobacco use of everybody who is going to be integrated on the family and individual health insurance plan. You shouldn’t give fake information about your tobacco utilization.

Whether or not the claimant, or anyone who is going to be included on the family health insurance plan, is a full-time student. Many family and individual health insurance plans are purchased by occupied time college or university students who have dependents.


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April 12, 2008

Electro-convulsive Therapy - Gift of Serendipity

Filed under: Electro-convulsive Therapy — john @ 4:51 am

The beginning of electro-convulsive therapy was made in April 1938. It was in the ancient city of Rome that Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini administered the first electro-convulsive treatment. Using two electrodes placed over the temples, they passed current through the head of a patient with schizophrenia. The passage of the current caused an immediate induction of convulsive seizure, and this benefited the patient by an unknown mechanism. At that time, they gave it the name of electro shock therapy.

This brave attempt by Cerletti and Bini was inspired primarily by the work of Laszlo von Meduna of Budapest. Von Meduna had begun what can now be called the chemical shock therapy, using intra-muscular shots of camphor suspended in oil. He later switched to another chemical, pentylenetetrazol, that had to be given into the veins. He found the treatment worked successfully in people with catatonia and other acute schizophrenic symptoms. The first reports of this pharmacologically induced seizure treatment were published in 1934, and the treatment remained in vogue for the next four years until Cereletti and Bini decided to use the constant electric current to shock the disturbed brain.

Just as in many other spheres of science, the concept of shock therapy was a gift of serendipity. It had been observed that in people with schizophrenia, an accidental seizure due to any cause often resulted in a decrease of symptoms and an unexpected clinical improvement. There was also an incorrect belief held by the physicians of that time that schizophrenia and epileptic convulsions never occurred together in the same patient. They reasoned, therefore, that the induction of convulsions might rid the person of the schizophrenic symptoms. And the hunch worked, even if for all the wrong reasons!

The first few years of chemical shock therapy were extremely distressing to the people who were compelled to take the treatment. The intra-muscular injection of camphor suspended in oil caused severe discomfort and suffering to the patient for at least two to six hours, before producing a seizure. The introduction of penty­lenetetrazol brought about a major change by inducing convulsion rather quickly, yet any patient who had been through the experience once, almost never ever agreed to take the treatment again. Sent out to empty their urinary bladder before the treatment, most patients simply shut themselves in, in the bathroom, and refused to stir out.

The introduction of electric current signaled a major change in the treatment, but the technique was still unsafe. It could lead to dislocation of the jaw, and sometimes, the shoulder; fracture the bones, and in certain instances cripple the patient by causing fractures in the spine and spinal cord. Still, since it was the only therapy that worked against severe depression and schizophrenia, it was used widely until the 1950s when the first major antipsychotic medications were introduced.

Over the years, the technique acquired a considerable sophistication. General anaesthetics and muscle relaxants have lessened the discomfort and patients now hardly feel anything. This has also eliminated the risk of dislocations and fractures, making it a safe and relatively painless technique. In more recent years, the treatment has seen further refinement. The most troubling side effect of electro-convulsive therapy was the loss of memory. To avoid that, most physicians now roUtinely apply electric current to the non-dominant side of the brain only. This unilateral electro-convulsive therapy, however, does not always work as well as the bilateral technique, and if a physician does not get the desired effect even after five or six treatments, he switches over to the conventional bilateral placement of electrodes.


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April 10, 2008

Zyprexa (olanzapine)

Filed under: Medications — john @ 4:48 am

Zyprexa (olanzapine) is the name given to an antipsychotic medicine; it is a drug which is used for the treatment of schizophrenia. It is helpful in the treatment of psychotic disorders related to the functioning of the brain. It functions by altering the action of certain chemicals in the brain.

Diabetes is a disease in which there is malfunctioning in the use and generation of a hormone called insulin in the pituitary glands. Insulin acts as a source of conversion of various food stuff like sugar, starch into energy required for the functioning of the body. Recent researches show that zyprexa (olanzapine) has put forward some cases of diabetes.

The use of zyprexa leads to increase in the level of blood sugar and is also linked with diabetes as mentioned above. Recent researches show that the use of this drug causes the diabetes at about 50 percent faster than other related drugs. Zyprexa acts as an atypical antipsychotic, unlike other psychotic drugs. FDA is not in favors of using this drug with children. Side effects of Zyprexa include various risks and other problems like diabetes, hyperglycemia, and weight gain. It is preferred that zyprexa should not be used with children or the patient is suffering from any of the below diseases: ADD, depression, addictions, but people are continually treated with this drug without knowing the consequences.

Before using this drug it is important that one should let his/her physician know about the other medications one is undergoing, especially related to heart.

Symptoms of side effects of zyprexa

  • Diarrhea
  • Upset stomach
  • Dry mouth
  • Muscle stiffness
  • Drowsiness
  • Excess sweating
  • Headache
  • Vomiting

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April 8, 2008

Phobias - Age and Gender Divide

Filed under: Phobias — john @ 12:56 pm

Specific phobias, like the fear of animals, commonly begin in childhood. Some children grow out of their fears when they become adults without any treatment. In others, it may linger into adulthood, and then continue for life. Phobias are quite common in the general population. In community samples, lifetime rates (once in life incidence) range from 10 to 11.3 per cent, with 75-90 per cent sufferers being women.

Agoraphobia typically strikes in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is also more commonly diagnosed in women than in men.

Social phobia can begin at any age, but it generally begins in the early to late teens. It may wax and wane in severity and runs a chronic course. In community studies, the lifetime prevalence figures of social phobia range between 3-13 per cent. Men and women are represented almost equally.

Phobias may run in families. First-degree biological relatives of a sufferer are more likely to develop the disorder.


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April 2, 2008

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Who Gets Affected?

Filed under: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder — john @ 4:42 am

The disorder is much more common than was previously recognized. Few people affected with obsessive-compulsive disorder tend to share their bizarre thoughts and actions, and their tendency to keep it secret plays a major part in underestimating the numbers. Some recent community studies, however, made a specific enquiry into the presence of the symptoms and found that the disorder has a lifetime prevalence of 1.9 - 3.0 per cent in the general population. The disorder begins most often in young people between the ages 18 and 24, but it may also affect children and older people. There is no gender bias and men and women are equally affected. The prevalence in first-degree biological relatives of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder is higher than in the general population, and if one of the identical twins is affected, the other also runs a high risk of being affected, but this does not apply to non-identical twins.


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March 29, 2008

How can the Behaviour of a Yogi be Differentiated from that of Others?

Filed under: Health Flash — john @ 4:08 am

One of the most striking marks of a yogi is that he is free of any idea of achievement. Most of us ever work for achieving something, for reaching somewhere, for an improvement in our position, an enhancement in our undertaking. We always happen to wish for some state as an ideal state, depending upon our understanding of ourselves in relation to the world around, and we ever happen to seek to make progress in order to reach the ideal. For a yogi, however, there is no differentiation in the terms of the ideal and the actual’ he has nothing to achieve in life because he comes to see very clearly that his actual state is not different in any way from what others may call the ideal state. There being nothing to be achieved, craved for, or sought after, a yogi has never to take recourse to any discipline, or sadhana, or any practice of virtue, and the like. He does not have to practise Pranayama in order to make his mind silent; nor does he ever have to practise dhyana, or samadhi, because he is always in a state of sahajavastha, which does not come and go. Freedom from seeking, effort, and sadhana, is thus an essential quality of a yogi.

Such an individual is obviously a man of simplicity, honesty and detached love. He is truly a man of vairagya. He loves everyone without any motive, and remains undisturbed like an ocean in every situation he confronts in life. He looks equally indifferently upon the dualities like success and failure, pleasure and pain honour and dishonour, and so on. It is often found that when an individual renounces the pleasures and comforts of daily life, and undergoes rigorous discipline of yoga for years together, he develops a kind of arrogance, and a high feeling about himself and his capacities. He keeps himself rather aloof, and does not mix freely with people, thinking that he is far too superior to others. He is not usually ready to hear others’ viewpoints, and makes much fuss about his own personality and achievements. We have many persons in India today who take for themselves titles like yogiraj, swami, paramahamsa, parivrajakacharya, and so on.

Many of them are not yogis in the true sense of the term, however. Yogi Changadeo (13th century, A.D) was a good example of such a personality. He was very proud of himself, because he had tamed ‘lions and tigers, as the belief goes, through his yogic powers. But he was humbled by a young boy, in their very first meeting. A real yogi, we may say, is a person like Jnanadeo, and not like Changadeo, who, with all the pomp and elegance of the yogic powers, was very far from the goal of yoga, i.e. jivanmukti.


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March 25, 2008

Orange County Mental Health

Filed under: Mental health — john @ 4:47 am

Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. The state of California estimates its population as of 2007 to be 3,098,121 people, before this rank is San Diego County by 148 people. Orange county has a orange county mental health association which aims at reducing the stigma of orange county mental health problems of their people and providing support for sexual assault victims.

The orange county mental health association fulfill the mission by providing services like public education, culturally competent advocacy, and direct services. There are orange county counselors which provide solution to some of these problems like stress, family difficulties, trust issues, break-ups, divorce, loneliness and sex issues, arguments and commitment issues. The orange county mental health association respect their values and believes and all of other groups. They believe that every individual has a dignity, compassion, respect and acceptance. The orange county mental health association help individuals and couples develop deeply fulfilling relationships that last a life time

The orange county has a orange county therapy technique in which the licensed child and family therapist guide to individual, family and couples to deal with their trauma and depression. There are support groups which offer you the opportunity to learn from other in that situations and realize from different angles so that you can realize the support and care the others need at that time of life and at the same time receiving the same.


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March 20, 2008

Specific Phobias

Filed under: Phobias — john @ 5:20 am

Specific phobias are characterized by a striking and persistent fear of a particular object or situation. The fear is so overwhelming that even the thought of a coming encounter with the fear-provoking stimulus fills the person with severe anxiety and apprehension. The fear may relate to an imagined or real harm that may befall him from the stimulus. For example, a person may have phobia of dogs because of the fear of being bitten; may be phobic of flying because he fears the aircraft may crash, or may avoid crossing a bridge because he fears that the bridge might collapse. Sometimes, the phobic stimulus may be absolutely trivial, such as the fear of cockroaches which do not pose any real danger.

At other times, fear preys on fear. People who are afraid of a particular object or situation might demonstrate the symptoms of phobia because they fear that they might lose control over themselves and panic when exposed to the object or situation. A person afraid of closed spaces thus might panic and start screaming on the thought of being confined in an elevator, and a person phobic of heights might fear the dizzy feeling so much that he begins to feel afraid even before he finds himself at a height.

The severity of response also varies with the circumstance. The closer the person draws to the phobic stimulus the more intense is the fear. If he can escape from the phobic object, he feels more reassured and is not so acutely anxious as he would be if there were no exits. Thus, a man afraid of dogs finds his fear growing if the dog draws nearer, and diminishing as the dog moves away. A person with the fear of closed spaces would feel most terrorized when the elevator is in transit than when it is about to open.

Specific phobias are further categorized into the following subtypes on the basis of the fear-provoking stimuli:

Animal type: Some people have their fear cued to animals and insects. This phobia usually begins in childhood.

Natural environment type: If objects in the natural environment, such as heights, water bodies or storms, are the cues for fear they are best placed in this subtype. Generally, such fears also begin in the childhood.

Blood-injection-injury type: If seeing blood, injection, injury or surgery prompts the fear, the phobia is part of this subtype. It runs in families and is often characterized by fainting at the sight of the stimulus.

Situational type: In this subtype, fear relates to a specific situation such as travelling in a bus, passing through tunnels or over bridges, riding elevators, flying, driving, or sitting in a closed space such as a theatre or cinema hall. This disorder begins either during childhood or in the mid-twenties.

Other types: If the fear is brought on by any other stimulus, such as loud noises, choking, vomiting or contracting an illness, it is placed into this subtype.


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March 12, 2008

Freshwater Pearls

Filed under: Health Flash — john @ 1:41 am

Ordinary freshwater pearls are seldom encompassing or slam to it. More frequently than not, they are ornate, slugs or branches. Freshwater pearls are renowned for their extensive variety of color as well as white, silvery white, pink, salmon, red, yellow, copper and comes in other colors too. White is the mainly frequent color, but the mainly pleasing colors are the pallid pinks, lavenders, red roses and purples. The dissimilar colors are reliant upon the mussel type, heredity, water eminence and the location of the pearl in the shell. Usually pearls presuppose the color of the crust in which they shape.

Freshwater pearls have a particular magnetism, since they approach in a broad series of colors. An exceptionally little amount of metal is added to the water on a pearl ranch, ensuing in diverse colored freshwater pearls. Lots of these colors cannot be established in sea water pearls. Freshwater pearls can be originated in roughly any shape conceivable including encircling, plummet rice, button, elliptical, semi-round, and circle or ringed, decorative or semi-baroque.

Freshwater pearl farming is done in China, Japan and the US. Usually, the US manufactures pearls for its conjugal market, while a high-quality of the freshwater pearls from China and other countries are selling overseas all over the world.


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