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According to published today Elmundo. ART is the pill Truvada, which is used to prevent HIV infection among homosexual men is not as effective as initially thought. A few months ago a study published in the journal “The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed the effectiveness of it, but these days the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have published a guide on which part of this total distrust effectiveness.

For this reason, from the CDC wanted to develop a guide for proper use of the pill geared for professionals who are thinking about giving this pill to patients. Without this guide, said from the agency “was concern sev produce unsafe practices or less effective in the coming months.” It is true that the treatment has a high cost-about $ 1,000 a month, and almost certainly the U.S. insurance will not cover, so for now looks set to be used by very few patients. Read the rest of this entry »

Urinary tract infections affect most women at some point in their lives and some small children and the elderly, is characterized by colonization of bacteria in the urinary tract cells, especially by Escherichia coli.
As a result of some research in Phytotherapy Research Center reported that the release properties of the cranberry that prevented bacteria are fixed on the mucosa of the urinary tract and produce infection.

Other investigations confirmed that this fruit is used both for prevention and treatment, along with antibiotics, urinary tract infection symptoms in women, and therefore as a natural resource and benefits of this drug has a cranberry plant, also known as “cranberry” in English, consumption they can significantly prevent the occurrence of symptoms of urinary tract disease in children.
This work is in addition being developed by the Cochrane Foundation stressed that bilberries “reduce by half the number of episodes suffered from cystitis for more than a year.”

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They say the woman, or at least most, feels fulfilled as such when it becomes a mother. That nothing compares to the positive outcome of a wanted pregnancy tests, the belly and the body to grow and change every month until the ninth. And no emotion bigger, indescribable, to give birth to a son and felt for the first time his head wet and tousled hair pressed against his chest.

Now, sometimes, nature needs help and in these instances, the lack of information plays against. According to the latest survey conducted on this topic and Designing commissioned by the Association, one in four women do not know what factors impair their reproductive capacity and know what questions to directly threaten their fertility.

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The most direct way to do this, part of the idea of neorestaurazione is to demonize – in the literal sense of the devil – the methods of contraception, the pill, condoms, etc..

The mere act of sex so naked and raw, becomes the means for having children, the man becomes the dispenser of the seed and the woman a car procreative. Because it is obvious that if you deny the use of contraceptive methods, they reinforce the births of all proportion, the alternative is, precisely, not sex. Does not conceive the idea of sex as an essential physiological component of man, nor as natural, indeed an integral part of feeling called love. The practical consequences of these precepts, if applied, essentially two:

1. further, uncontrolled population growth;
2. the further spread of pandemics such as AIDS, because of the veto on condoms. Read the rest of this entry »

There are still some things that we know about HIV and AIDS.

For example, do not really know why it is that HIV and AIDS are both so common in some African countries but not in Europe or America, although we do have some theories.

Factors that may contribute include the much higher prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases not covered in Africa (which usually increases the likelihood of HIV transmission) and, quite possibly, differences in HIV subtypes.

Also, people who have a poorer general health (including those with malaria or tuberculosis) are more likely to have higher amounts of HIV in their body fluids, making them more likely to transmit the virus. Read the rest of this entry »

Before we can start looking for a cause, we need first to clarify exactly what kind of disease we are talking about.

In early 1981, several physicians in New York and California began to report some strange new disease outbreaks.

In both places, previously healthy young men appeared with rare diseases including Kaposi’s sarcoma (a type of tumor) and PCP (a type of pneumonia), something hitherto unprecedented in this type of people.

Within months, dozens of similar cases were reported in 23 states across the U.S. and the UK, representing the beginning of a massive and unprecedented epidemic. 5

Doctors quickly discovered a distinctive feature of these cases. More than anything, these men lacked a particular type of white blood cells essential to a healthy immune system. Read the rest of this entry »