It has been announced Tuesday that St. Louis Hospital is planning to research for the better apprehension of birth defect conditions in children. St. Louis Hospital is one of the best children’s hospitals.

As told by surgeon in chief of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Dr. Brad Warner, the research aims at the in depth study of birth defect CDH i.e., Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Every 1 baby in 2,000 is born with the disease, with a 50 percent survival chances; half of those fail to make to their 1st birthday.

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia is formulated when the chest cavity separation diaphragm does not build accurately in the womb.

Due to this defect lungs also do not form properly as the contents of the belly spread up to the chest.

Over the past decade, women’s health has emerged as a rapidly expanding field of scientific inquiry and knowledge with important implications for clinical practice. Women’s health can be viewed broadly as the study of the effect of sex and gender on health and disease that occurs across the spectrum of the biologic, behavioral, and social sciences.

Today I am going to study an important issue of women health- that is HOT FLUSH. Although hot flush can be found very occasionally in case of male.

It is not a disease actually; symptom of a disease – the compositions of some problems which raise out at the commencement of menopause (the cessation of menstrual cycle) and perimenopause (the junction between two time spans of the end stage menstruation and the cessation of menstruation). As we are just talking regarding menstrual cycle, you can understand this is a common feature among the women at their end stage of reproductive life. Excessive feelings of severe heat along with profuse production of sweat followed by fast pulse rate are common features.

Results of a new study suggest that the women, who are planning for becoming pregnant, must drop the extra weight they are carrying, as they have higher odds to give birth to babies with some birth defects.

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Judith Rankin, the lead author of the study, says: “Our study has found that obesity in pregnant women increases the risk of birth defects in babies they bear.”

The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Feb.11 issue.

There are many previous studies whose results show that obesity in pregnant women can become the cause of various problems including gestational diabetes, higher risk of blood clotting, hypertension, infections and Cesarean delivery. Similarly, babies born to these women may be too large and have a higher risk for perinatal death.

Obesity in pregnant women is also associated with different congenital anomalies like spina bifida, defects in neural tube, cleft lip, heart defects etc.

Coffee intake not only awakes you but also have potential benefits for the mental health in old age, a new study suggests.

In 1,409 middle age people, researchers analyzed the consumption of coffee for twenty one years. Meanwhile, forty eight of them developed dementia and sixty one Alzheimer’s diseases.

In the study, researchers found that participants who drink three to five cups of coffee each day have 65 percent less chances of developing dementia than the people take two cup or less. But the number of people who showed such benefits was too low to draw any conclusion.

Dr. Miia Kivipelto, the lead researcher is not certifying coffee as a preventive health measure and said, “This study is strictly base on observations, there is no evidence that the non-coffee drinkers will have some protective effect after the use of coffee.”

The findings were published after controlling most of the socioeconomic factors including hypercholesterolemia and hypertension.

In a recent study it has been found that Indian water streams contain high levels of antibiotics to treat almost 90,000 people in one stream. The water samples were taken from Patancheru treated water. This waste water is the drain of about 90 drug manufacturing companies.

These tests and researches have been lead by Joakim Larsson, an environmental scientist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and his team at Patancheru Enviro Tech Ltd. Plant. The shocking result showed that the water is abundant in Ciprofloxacin, a renowned antibiotic used for various disease treatments.

The so called treated water contained 21 antibiotics traces in it. These 21 medicines are used in general to treat ailments like ulcer, gonorrhea, chronic liver disease, hypertension, heart ailments, depression, and other such diseases. The water is undoubtedly harmful for health, which poor villagers are forced to drink; “We don’t have any other source, so we’re drinking it.” Klaus Kuemmerer, a chemist at the University of Freiburg Medical Center in Germany, an expert on drug resistance said, “If you take a bath there, then you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment,” “If you just swallow a few gasps of water, you’re treated for everything. The question is for how long?”

Obesity is considered the basic cause of various diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc. For a considerable number of people it has become a real serious health issue because of higher health risks. It has been observed that obese people often have to become the victim of their fellows’ critical remarks and bullying and perhaps this is a bigger reason that most of people want to shed their extra pounds in the twinkling of an eye. They seem to look for best weight loss pills, diet programs and various exercises. They often experience that most of these weight loss pills and other programs prove good for nothing and sometimes even put them in new troubles.

Before choosing any weight loss pill or other product, people need to be a lot more attentive, as it’s a real serious issue and you shouldn’t allow others to play with your health only for minting some money.

The results of a new study suggest that cold weather may become the cause of high blood pressure in elderly.

In their study that included 8,801 older adults (65 and over), the researchers, from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris, found that seasonal changes caused increase and drop in the systolic and diastolic blood pressures. The researchers noticed that in cold weather systolic blood pressure was 5 points higher than in summer season. The systolic blood pressure of the 33.4% older adults in winter was higher than 159 and diastolic blood pressure was higher than 94mm.

The study has been published in the Archives of Internal Medicine 12 Jan issue.

It has not been found what the basic reason behind this correlation. According to the study authors it might be linked with the baroreflex that is a blood pressure related mechanism and in elderly this mechanism is modified that proves helpful to control stress response and other such involuntary actions.

When it’s about cocaine abuse, the basic difference between cocaine and crack cocaine is that cocaine is quite well-known as an expensive drug that is widely used by rich and glamorous people. On the other hand, Crack cocaine is cheap and it is mostly used by poor men to get rid of worries and tensions of life. The sad fact is that it makes them feel free of worries and tensions for the time being, but takes them as well as their loved ones in a perpetual agony.

Cocaine is available in powder as well as soluble forms and used by inhaling or through injection. Many addicts mix cocaine with heroine and use it for well-known snowballing. It has been observed that this practice become the cause of more deaths than just of heroine abuse only. Crack cocaine is cheap and that’s why highly addictive and can become an epidemic if not checked in a proper way.

Women who live in a rural area may have higher chances of developing preeclampsia and pregnancy-related hypertension, a new study finds.

In this six-year study, the researchers also found that women with some college education were 19 percent more likely to have preeclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension than women with a high school education. Women who gave birth in Colorado during six-year were included in the study.

The study has been presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology in Philadelphia.

There are some known risk factors for preeclampsia and PIH and that include older age, excessive weight and giving birth to multiple babies. The researchers validated these factors in this new study. One researcher suggests that the link between rural living and preeclampsia, PIH risk may be due to maternal poverty and social deprivation.

Those pregnant women, who consume more than 100 milligram caffeine a day, develop a higher risk of delivering an underweight baby, findings published in BMJ.

This latest research is also indicating that, the amount of caffeine a person consumes through any source such as tea, coffee, beverages, chocolates or prescribed drugs, may directly effects one’s health, especially when pregnant.

Researchers found that, pregnant women who take more than two cups of coffee a day have a risk of miscarriage twofold than those women who avoid caffeine. Underweight infants are more likely to develop multiple health issues when they grow older, including hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases.

Women who use caffeine between 100-200 milligrams, had a 20 percent amplified risk of having a baby of low birth weight, the study found. Comparison was made with the women who consumed less than 100 milligrams daily.

“Caffeine consumption during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of fetal growth restriction and this association continued throughout pregnancy,” Justin Konje at the University of Leicester in Britain and colleagues wrote.