Saturday, October 3, 2009

Dest Diet Pill


Dest Diet Pill
Confused? You have the right to be. With hundreds of diet pills on the market, it's nearly impossible to determine which diet pills work and which ones don't. If all of them claim to use "advanced ingredients" and "maximum strength" formulas, how can you know which one will really get lose weight for good?
That's where we come in. DietPills.org is the nation's leading source of information on diet pills. We provide a guide that helps inform the consumer trying to find unbiased information on the best diet pills available.
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Top 10 Diet Pills


Top 10 Diet Pills
Diet pills are those anti-obesity or weight lose drugs that are used to control weight. Generally these are the pills that are most effective and wallet friendly remedy when one has tried several other weight loss diets but result is zero. Secondly, for a person who is bearing a tight schedule (executive, or an official) doesn't have enough time to consume for exercise and to follow a balanced diet plan. These diet pills are a beneficial option for them.
Being podgy, is one of the complexes of one's life (according to a recently conducted survey in north America). In regard to this, U.S spends around 30 to 50 billion $ dollars on diet and weight loss programs. The benefit of these diet pills is that it doesn't require any sort of preparation (physical or mental). One can start taking it any time, without getting into any sort of physical exercise or activity. Moreover, one can fit into his/her quotidian routine without affecting the schedule or plan.
According to the latest consumer reviews from all over the world, amongst 200 top most effective pills, the following 10 diet pills are ranked as the most effective drugs considering:
1. Convenience of the product
2. Customer Satisfaction
3. Value
4. Safety
5. Weight-loss potential
These can be purchased online as well:
1. OROVO:
Orovo, was eventually invented by a full-time mother who used "10 super foods" daily which was recommended by a well known dermatologist, to get rid off her wrinkles. Surprisingly she lost 10 pounds in 10 days instead of losing her wrinkles and all her acne and black head were gone. It was really difficult to find out that 10 super foods again so she with the help of her husband, create the supplements with 10 highly concentrated extracts and found the results the same. Orovo is now famous among athletes and as well as celebrities for refreshing skin.
2. NUPHEDRAGEN:
It is also one of the well lenitive drug for fat loss as the two chemical processing present are giving remarkable results.
3. NOXYCUT:
It is recommended strictly for male adults (above 18) as it is the blend of strongest burners & top rated muscle builders. Its one of the positive side effects is the enhancement of sexual performance due to the testosterone boosters present.
4. 7-DFBX:
This drug is famous for the slogan "lose 17 pounds in 7 days". Its well meticulous mixture contains almost all the natural nutritious ingredients that are responsible for maintaining the body pH level.
5. CURVATRIM:
It is medically considered a wonder for women as it's the only dynamic formulated pill that not only reduces weight in women, but also cures acne, enhances breasts plus increases sexual zing.
6. HYDROXYCUT HARDCORE:
It is a mixture of powerful fat burning ingredients. It contains the ultimate proven fat burning formula that raises the norepinephrine, which is the main fat burning hormone.
7. AMBISLIM PM:
This drug is a night time diet pill. It is a compound of ingredients that assuages our body in relaxing state and enabling us to sleep. This ultimately decreases the hormone cotisol which creates fats near stomach and heart.
8. TRIMSPA X32:
This drug, along with diet and exercise has shown remarkable results of proving an average weight of loss7.03 lbs in 8 weeks. It was the best selling diet pill in the US from 2004-2006 until was overtaken by orovo and nuphedragen.
9. 72 HOUR SLIMMING PILL:
It contains all natural ingredients that work altogether in weight loss process. And so far it has been seen that it helps in loosing 7-15 lbs in 3 days.
10. LIPOSEDUCTION 2250:
This drug is an amazing blend of natural nutritional ingredients derived from white kidney bean and which are proven to be found in our favorite foods like rice, corn, potatoes etc.

Anabolic Steriods


Anabolic Steriods
Women athletes certainly do need to take a different approach to steroid use than males do. There are only a limited number of the drugs listed in this text that a woman would even want to consider. Among those are Primobolans, Proviron, Nolvadex, Nandrolones, Anavar, Winstrol, and synthetic Growth Hormone. It is important to note that even on the lowest dosages of any of these steroids, women can start to experience virilizing effects. This is because any amount of steroid introduced into the woman's endocrine system is a serious jolt. Anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of male hormones and can cause serious adverse reactions in some women.
The most prudent approach to administering anabolic steroids to the female involves the use of low dosages of very low androgenic items. Women obviously do not have to worry about the Gonadotrophic suppression that men do nor do they usually encounter much of a problem with the hepatotoxicity of anabolic steroids. This is because they most often use low dosages of very clean items.
Since the most androgenic items tend to be the most toxic to the liver, by avoiding these items women also avoid the liver stress that most men undergo. Women can however benefit from the use of estrogen antagonists. Many women favor the use of Nolvadex and/or Proviron while trying to attain muscularity.
Anabolic steroids have been extremely effective for many women athletes who use them to obtain size, strength and endurance. Since the virilizing effects women suffer from using anabolic steroids tend to be permanent, it is prudent to use caution at all times www.medpharmacare.com. One of the safer ways that I have seen women use anabolic steroids is to stack two low androgenic items for a period less than six weeks and then take several weeks off of the drugs before coming back to another four or five week cycle and then taking a good two months off of the drugs. With this pattern, women can watch for adverse reactions which usually occur in proportion to the duration of use by the female. The use of Growth Hormone by women has proven to be extremely effective in some cases. Since Growth Hormone is not an androgenic drug, it does not result in any virilizing effects for women. Growth Hormone greatly increases muscularity primarily by reducing body fat stores in the woman while leaving the lean muscle mass unaltered.

Friday, October 2, 2009

What are Obstetric Ultrasound Scans?


Obstetric Ultrasound is the use of ultrasound scans in pregnancy. Since its introduction in the late 1950’s ultrasonography has become a very useful diagnostic tool in Obstetrics.
Currently used equipments are known as real-time scanners, with which a continous picture of the moving fetus can be depicted on a monitor screen. Very high frequency sound waves of between 3.5 to 7.0 megahertz (i.e. 3.5 to 7 million cycles per second) are generally used for this purpose.
They are emitted from a transducer which is placed in contact with the maternal abdomen, and is moved to "look at" (likened to a light shined from a torch) any particular content of the uterus. Repetitive arrays of ultrasound beams scan the fetus in thin slices and are reflected back onto the same transducer.
The information obtained from different reflections are recomposed back into a picture on the monitor screen (a sonogram, or ultrasonogram). Movements such as fetal heart beat and malformations in the feus can be assessed and measurements can be made accurately on the images displayed on the screen. Such measurements form the cornerstone in the assessment of gestational age, size and growth in the fetus.
A full bladder is often required for the procedure when abdominal scanning is done in early pregnency. There may be some discomfort from pressure on the full bladder. The conducting gel is non-staining but may feel slightly cold and wet. There is no sensation at all from the ultrasound waves.

Drug Testing Facts


Drug Testing Facts
Drugs eventually show up in your body fluids and hair in one form or another. So, you'll be asked to "donate" a sample (specimen) of one of the two, which is submitted to a drug testing lab for chemical analysis.
* Because your hair grows, certain drugs can be detected for longer periods historically, but typically only for heavy-duty and continuous use. Hair analysis is the least invasive, but might not reveal recent use.
* Blood analysis is the most accurate, but pricey, definitely invasive, and not allowed in the Federal drug testing program at this writing.
* Saliva and sweat analysis are accurate, but not yet popular methods at this writing.
* Urine analysis is less invasive than blood analysis, typically the least expensive, and can detect infrequent or recent single use.
For these reasons, urine analysis is the most common drug test, so a urine specimen is likely what you'll submit. It's also what we'll stick with when referring to your specimen. If the specimen-collection facility goes by the book, you'll start by replacing some or all of your street clothing with one of those hospital-type gowns that lets your backside stick out, to reduce the likelihood that you can smuggle something in to tamper with your specimen. Then an escort will steer you into a "dry room" that doesn't have much in it, to further prevent you from tampering with your specimen. In the absence of a dry room, it might be a restroom with the faucets turned off at the main valve and colored water in the toilets, also to prevent tampering. In either case, your escort might observe you or hover nearby while you urinate in the vial.
Then your specimen is off to a drug testing lab, where they'll typically test it for the drug itself or the substances (metabolites) produced by your body when it processes (metabolizes) the drug. If they follow the Federal drug testing guidelines, they'll perform an initial screening and then confirm the results with more sophisticated tests.
Under the Federal guidelines, drug testing has two cutoff levels for positive detection. That is, labs that follow the guidelines consider drug testing to be negative if detection is below either cutoff level. In the case of urine analysis, drug testing cutoff levels are measured in nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml). For example, an initial screening for marijuana must show at least 50 ng/ml, and then confirmatory tests must prove at least 15 ng/ml. If the initial screening doesn't show at least at least 50 ng/ml, then it's considered to be negative and the confirmatory tests aren't performed.
But, to put it into perspective, a gram is only thirty-five thousandths (0.035) of an ounce, and a nanogram is a mere one-billionth (0.000000001 or 10-9) of a gram. So, we're talking about microscopic particles measurable in only a few drops of urine. Molecules. Consequently, even infrequent, recreational drug use might cause employees to fail drug testing.
For the cutoff levels of commonly-abused drugs and more about drug testing, click Drug Testing Cutoff Levels in the sidebar. Click Drug Detection Times to find out how long drugs stay in your body, according to the Feds. For the full text of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, click Mandatory Federal Guidelines.
Can I beat a drug test and pass?
Natch, the best way to pass drug testing is not to do drugs at all or at least lay off them for awhile before testing. But the problem with employee random drug testing is, you don't know when your employer will pull your name from the hat. Your employer might not be required by law to give you much advanced notice, as that obviously blows the whole idea. Even with advanced notice, drug testing can detect drugs for days to weeks, depending on the drug, frequency of use, specimen and test type, metabolism, and other factors.
How long you need to lay off drugs depends on which resource you consult, as few agree. For example, one of the two companies selling home drug-testing kits with which this writer checked, reported that marijuana use may be detected for up to 4 weeks. The second reported that marijuana may be detected for up to 11 weeks, while the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported up to 5 weeks. Huge discrepancy!
There are many techniques floating around for flushing your body free of drugs or tricking the tests by loading up on herbs, certain foods, magic detoxifier pills, coffee, etc. There are more about spiking your specimen with adulterants. But many are myths.
For example, there is speculation that loading up on water before a urine drug test might dilute drugs and metabolites just enough, to put them below the cutoff levels. But, lots of water makes your urine look pale. It's a healthy sign that you're well-hydrated, but also a waving flag that you might have tried to "flush." NORML, a group working to reform marijuana laws, suggests that you might be able to beat watery-urine detection "visually" if you also take vitamin B-2, which tints your urine yellow.
See the sidebar for more of NORML's tips, but don't get too excited about them just yet. For one thing, labs have the option to conduct specimen-validity tests at their discretion. For another, on August 21, 2001, SAMHSA introduced a proposal to standardize and require urine validity tests across the board, to better detect specimen adulteration. Regardless of its color, labs can detect abnormal pH and creatinine levels in urine, and measure its specific gravity. So, even if you don't get busted for cheating per se, your persecutors might ask you to take the drug test again, on shorter notice and with closer observation.
Another myth is about claiming to be a "passive" user, like by incidentally inhaling ambient pot smoke at a rock concert. You can try using that excuse, but if you're a regular pot smoker, it likely won't fly. Your level will probably be above the cutoffs and far above that of the passive smoker, which, at only about 5 ng/ml or so, is well below the cutoffs. The same goes for passive absorption, like from maybe handling a dollar bill that was unknowingly rolled into a "straw" to snort coke. But, nice try.
It's true that poppy-seed ingestion can cause false positives for opiates a few hours later in urine tests. But labs claim that hair analysis can distinguish between opiate abuse and poppy-seed ingestion. Additionally, the Feds are familiar with urine-adulteration tricks. Consequently, the Feds upped the ng/ml detection level beyond that of "normal" poppy-seed ingestion, but still within the range of abuse. Normal ingestion is considered to be like two poppy-seed muffins in a day, tops.
So, if you're a heavy abuser of opiates, you can scratch the excuse that you wolfed down a dozen poppy-seed muffins on the morning of drug testing. But you could say that smoking an early-morning joint gave you the munchies, and that's why you ate so many muffins. If you think that's a great idea, perhaps it's time to check yourself into a drug-rehab clinic.

Medical Miracles


The man who survived a 500-foot fall:
The man who survived a 500 foot fall. The twin who lived inside his brother’s belly for three decades. The toddler who doesn’t age.
Medical history recent and otherwise is filled with jaw-dropping oddities, miraculous recoveries, and unsolved mysteries. There is more to these cases than shock value, however. What headlines call “miracles” are a testament to human resilience, and so-called medical mysteries remind us just how much we have to learn about the body and mind.
We’ve compiled 20 of the most extraordinary cases from the world of medicine. Some of these stories may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but every one is true.
The girl who doesn’t age:
Brooke Greenberg is 30 inches tall and weighs 30 pounds. She looks like a toddler and has the mind of a toddler—but she is actually 16 years old.
Her hair and nails are the only parts of her body that have grown since she was 4. Growth hormone therapy has had no effect, and doctors are baffled by her condition. Researchers have been studying her DNA in search of a genetic mutation that might unlock the fountain of youth that keeps her young. Her family, meanwhile, has accepted that Brooke will likely be a baby forever.
The girl who feels no pain:
As much as it hurts, pain teaches us important lessons (not to touch a hot stove, for example). People with a rare genetic disorder known as hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy (HSAN) type V feel no pain, however, and may never learn those lessons.
Eight-year-old Gabby Gingras constantly and unwittingly injures herself, sometimes seriously. She has knocked out all but one of her adult teeth (which grew in early after doctors suggested pulling her baby teeth), and as a baby she scratched herself blind in her left eye. She now wears safety glasses and sleeps in swim goggles to protect her right eye. There is no cure for HSAN type V, but as people age and learn how to manage their condition, they can lead relatively normal lives.
Tree man:
The arms, legs, and face of Indonesian Dede Kosawa are covered in bark-like warts, which have made him internationally famous and earned him the nickname Tree Man. Doctors believe the growths are caused by a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that has been exacerbated by a genetic immune defect.
In 2007, Kosawa had 12 pounds of warts removed at an Indonesian hospital, and in February he underwent his ninth round of surgery. He now has better use of his hands and feet but will continue to need surgery every few months, as there is no known cure for his condition
Vomiting cured by showers
Maria Rogers was afflicted with mysterious episodes of intense vomiting. She would check into the hospital and the vomiting would stop; she would return home and it would return. The only thing that seemed to help were long, hot showers.
As Lisa Sanders, MD, relates in her book Every Patient Tells a Story, Rogers’s doctors were stumped. But a simple Google search for “persistent vomiting improved by hot showers” yielded the answer in seconds: cannabinoid hyperemesis, or excessive vomiting due to chronic marijuana use, a relatively new and unheard of syndrome. (When asked, Rogers acknowledged that she was a frequent pot smoker.)
Disembarkment syndrome
Many sea travelers have to regain their “land legs” once they’re back on solid ground. Their limbs may feel wobbly for a few minutes, or the ground may seem to move beneath their feet. Sufferers of disembarkment syndrome never escape this feeling. Long after they have disembarked, they feel constantly in motion or off-balance.
The condition is usually brought on by traveling, particularly after long stretches of time on a boat (such as a cruise). Scientists say it occurs when the brain fails to re-adapt to land after adapting to the pitching and rolling of a boat.
Treatment devices, such as vibrating vests and socks that help sufferers maintain their balance, are still in the prototype phase. Until then, the only relief seems to come from the hair of the dog: For some people, driving and other types of motion tends to calm the rocking sensation.
The woman with giant legs
Doctors knew something was wrong with Mandy Sellars from the moment she was born. The 34-year-old’s legs and feet were abnormally large at birth, and they have continued to grow at an alarming rate. Today, her legs alone weigh 210 pounds.
Experts have not been able to diagnose her problem, although some of the doctors she has consulted believe she suffers from Proteus syndrome—an extremely rare condition that causes deformities, including partial gigantism, which may have afflicted the Elephant Man.
Sellars lives on her own, does volunteer work, and even drives. But carrying so much extra weight on her frame could begin to tax her heart, and she may ultimately need a double amputation.
A prisoner in her own body:
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) can leave patients feeling like prisoners in their own bodies. Severe muscle spasms lead to the locking of the muscles, leaving patients paralyzed sometimes for hours on end, and in excruciating pain.
Kristie Tunick’s symptoms are so debilitating that the 32-year-old often has difficulty leaving bed. Tunick has undergone multiple tests and surgeries to try to improve her condition, including having her gallbladder removed in 2006.
The operation seems to have made the condition worse and resulted in periods of unconsciousness. Diagnosing SPS is difficult, so Tunick is currently waiting to undergo further testing
A so-called internal decapitation—when the skull separates from the spine without rupturing the skin or severing the spinal cord—is fatal 98% of the time. Jordan Taylor walked away from it.
In the fall of 2008, after a dump truck slammed into the car in which he and his mother were traveling, Taylor’s head was reconnected to his spine with metal plates and titanium rods. Most people who survive this injury are paralyzed for life, but Taylor, 10, walked out of the hospital with minimal spinal cord damage just three months after the accident.
The man who fell from the sky:
In December 2007, Alcides Moreno and his brother, Edgar, fell 47 stories in their window-washing platform along the side of a New York City skyscraper. Edgar died on impact. Alcides, then 37, survived.
After a total of 16 surgeries, he awoke in December and was talking by early January. At a press conference, physicians described Moreno’s recovery from the traumatic fall as “miraculous” and “unprecedented.” Shortly thereafter he was discharged from the hospital to a rehab center, and his doctors think he may one day walk again.
Cut in half by a truck
In 1995, China’s Peng Shulin was cut in half by a truck. Left with only half of his torso, Peng stood 2’6″ tall. Skin grafts were taken from his face to repair what was left of his body. Not only did he survive the accident, but he also began walking again, thanks to a specially designed cup-shaped prosthetic with bionic legs. Peng has been strengthening his upper body and, with the aid of a walker, is now out of bed.
Awake after a 19-year coma:
Polish railroad worker Jan Grzebski woke up from a coma after an astounding 19 years. Grzebski slipped into a coma in 1988 after being hit by a train. Doctors expected him to live for two or three years.
His wife stayed by his side, moving him to prevent bedsores and praying for his recovery. When he awoke in 2007, he was surprised to find that the Communist party had fallen and that people were talking on cell phones.
In 2003, American Terry Wallis also awoke from a 19-year coma. The longest coma on record lasted 37 years, but the patient never regained consciousness.

Low Salt Diet


Low Salt Diet
Patients with resistant hypertension are those who take three or more medicines to try and control their blood pressure, but their readings are still high. "These patients especially benefit from a low-salt diet," says study lead author Eduardo Pimenta, MD, a clinical research fellow in the hypertension department of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Doctors tend to add more and more antihypertensive medications," he says, but ''these patients could have their blood pressure controlled with a low-salt diet and fewer medications." Based on his study, he says, doctors should consider additional lifestyle intervention, reinforcing to patients the importance of a low-salt diet before adding more drugs.
The study is published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the same issue, another study found that modest salt reduction reduced blood pressure in blacks, whites, and Asians who had mildly elevated pressures, and that the low-salt diet also produced other health benefits.
Salt and Resistant Blood Pressure Study: Details
While many studies have found a link between dietary sodium and blood pressure, exactly how dietary sodium affects the resistant form of high blood pressure isn't well-known, according to Pimenta.
In his study, he assigned 12 men and women, average age 55, all with high blood pressure even while taking an average of 3.4 medicines, to eat a high-salt diet for one week and a low-salt diet for one week, separating the two diet experiments by a two-week "washout" period.
The average body mass index (BMI) was nearly 33, considered obese. At the study start, the average blood pressure while taking the medications was about 146/84. (Ideal blood pressures are below 120/80. If pressures are repeatedly over 140/90, it is considered hypertension.)
When the participants were on the high-salt diet, they took in about 7,000 milligrams of sodium per day, according to Pimenta; while on the low-salt diet they took in about 2,000 to 3,000 milligrams of sodium. Under U.S. dietary guidelines, less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day, or about one teaspoon of salt, is recommended for the general population; 1,500 milligrams is recommended for those with high blood pressure. The average American gets 3,436 milligrams of sodium a day, according to the American Heart Association.
Salt and Resistant Blood Pressure Study: Results
Compared to the high-salt diet, after being on the low-salt diet for a week, the participants had an average drop of 22.7 points for systolic blood pressure (the top number) and 9.1 for diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number).
The drop, Pimenta writes, is larger than what has been found in other blood pressure studies, suggesting that those with resistant hypertension may be especially sensitive to high salt intake.
Doctors should reinforce the importance of a low-salt diet," Pimenta tells WebMD. "I think they should refer these patients to a nutritionist
Salt and Blood Pressure: Across Populations
In another study in the same issue, U.K. researchers found that a modest reduction in salt intake reduces blood pressures in Asians, blacks, and whites."The vast majority of previous studies have only been in white subjects," study co-author Graham A. MacGregor, MD, professor of cardiovascular medicine at St. George's, University of London, tells WebMD.
This study tested the impact of salt reduction in 169 men and women, ages 30 to 75, who had mild high blood pressure but weren't on blood pressure medications. They reduced salt from an average of 9.7 grams a day to 6.5. That translates to dropping sodium intake from about 3,800 milligrams a day to about 2,400 milligrams, according to MacGregor. (Salt is different than sodium. Salt is about 40% sodium; the rest is chloride.)
At the study start, participants had an average blood pressure of 147/91. After being on the low-salt diet, their blood pressure dropped to an average of about 141/88.
There were other benefits of salt reduction other than blood pressure," MacGregor tells WebMD. They found less calcium in the urine when the low-salt diet was followed. Over the long haul, reducing calcium loss through the urine would be expected to reduce osteoporosis risk. They also found less albumin in the urine. High levels of albumin in the urine can signal kidney damage and indicate a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
Some people have a bigger fall [in blood pressure] than others," MacGregor says. But salt reduction, he adds, will benefit everyone. "Even if you have very low blood pressure, you are less likely to get osteoporosis."
High blood pressure affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. Even modest reductions in blood pressure readings would be expected to have a large impact on rates of blood-pressure-related diseases such as heart attack and stroke when spread over such a large population.
Second Opinion
While the study of those with resistant hypertension included only a dozen patients, the reduction in blood pressure was "striking," says Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Public Health in Baltimore. He wrote an editorial for the journal.
The blood pressure drop seen in the Pimenta study, according to Appel, is equivalent to what would be expected if two more blood-pressure-lowering medications were added.
The study of those with mild high blood pressure, Appel tells WebMD, points out not only that different ethnic groups can benefit from lowering salt, but that salt reduction has effects beyond blood pressure, such as potential protection from kidney and heart disease.
Reducing salt, he says, will not be easy for many Americans. He suggests first buying lower-salt breads and cereals and limiting consumption of processed foods such as luncheon meats, which have high amounts of salt.
However, if we are to succeed at lowering sodium consumption as a society, ultimately significant changes will need to be made in our food supply," he writes.
A co-author on the Pimenta study has served as a consultant for the Salt Institute; Appel has received research grants from King-Monarch Pharmaceuticals, which makes a blood pressure-lowering medicine.