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Health Inequalities

Health inequality refers to the differences in healthcare provision between two or more demographic groups despite them having comparative access to healthcare services.

16 Aug 2010

Fatty Liver Diagnosis

Around 50 to 100% patients with fatty liver disease have no symptoms of the condition. Detection of the disease is more often than not an incidental finding on routine blood tests.

16 Aug 2010

Fatty Liver Pathology

The condition is similar to alcoholic liver disease but the risk factors are different. There are essentially four stages of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease or fatty liver.

16 Aug 2010

What is Fatty Liver?

Fatty liver is a very common disorder and up to 20 percent of adults and approximately 5 percent of children are affected.

16 Aug 2010

Oophorectomy Risks

Whilst there are several reasons that the surgical removal of all or part of the ovaries may be indicated to benefit a woman, it is important that potential risks are considered.

16 Aug 2010

Oophorectomy Benefits

In some cases, the surgical removal of ovaries can offer a woman significant benefits. This depends greatly on the individual characteristics of the woman and her specific genealogy.

16 Aug 2010

What is Oophorectomy?

Oophorectomy, sometimes called ovariectomy, is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of one or both of a woman’s ovaries.

16 Aug 2010

Vertebroplasty Procedure

Vertebroplasty is an image-guided therapeutic approach used for the treatment of painful or unstable vertebral body compression fractures.

16 Aug 2010

Vertebroplasty is a surgical procedure used to treat a compression fracture of the spinal vertebrae by restoring the strength and height of the collapsed bone. It is usually performed for patients with severe pain that disables them from normal functions, if the pain has lasted for more than 2 months.

16 Aug 2010

Inositol Hexanicotinate (IHN)

Inositol hexanicotinate (also known as inositol hexaniacinate or inositol nicotinate) is the hexanicotinic acid ester of meso-inositol.

16 Aug 2010

Niacin Food Sources

Niacin is a water-soluble vitamin that partakes in a variety of biochemical reactions in the human body.

16 Aug 2010

Niacin Side Effects

Niacin is water-soluble vitamin B3 and has a myriad of important roles in humans.

16 Aug 2010

Niacin Deficiency

Niacin is a member of the B-vitamin complex group vital to the oxidation of all living cells.

16 Aug 2010

Niacin History

Niacin is an important type of B vitamin found in animal foods like red meat, liver and fish. Although humans can make it from the amino acid tryptophan, this synthesis is inefficient; thus niacin is still considered a vitamin (an organic substance that must be ingested). It is often referred to as vitamin B3 because it was the third of the discovered vitamins of B group.

16 Aug 2010

What is Niacin?

Niacin, which is otherwise known as vitamin B3, is essential to proper cell functioning.

16 Aug 2010

What Causes Neutropenia?

Neutropenia represents an abnormally low level of neutrophils in the blood.

16 Aug 2010

Neutropenia Diagnosis

Neutropenia is a hematological disorder defined as a reduction in the absolute number of neutrophils in the blood.

16 Aug 2010

Neutropenia Symptoms

Neutropenia is defined as a condition characterized by a depressed neutrophil count and associated with an increased risk of infections. The major causes of neutropenia include hematologic malignancies, metastatic neoplasm involving the bone marrow, irradiation, various drugs, vitamin B12 and folate deficiency, congenital or acquired primary disorders of hematopoiesis, as well as various autoimmune and benign idiopathic disorders.

16 Aug 2010

What is Neutropenia?

Neutrophilic granulocytes (or neutrophils) are the most abundant circulating leukocytes in humans which play a fundamental role in the innate immune response. These cells are recruited rapidly when inflammation is present, and their primary role is to kill invading microorganisms via phagocytosis by release of preformed granular enzymes and proteins, as well as by the production of a range of oxygen species.

16 Aug 2010

What is Neurogenesis?

The term neurogenesis is made up of the words “neuro” meaning “relating to nerves” and “genesis” meaning the formation of something. The term therefore refers to the growth and development of neurons. This process is most active while a baby is developing in the womb and is responsible for the production of the brain’s neurons.

16 Aug 2010