The Final Meningitis Vaccine Materials Free Pig Content

The use of meningitis vaccine is still a dilemma for people who want to perform hajj. But the Health Advisory Council and syara (MPKS) ensure that the final ingredient in the polysaccharide meningitis vaccine does not contain pork.

"The materials used to make the vaccine are polysaccharides. Based on the study we did, it was found that the end result is a polysaccharide did not contain anything," said Dr. H. Achmad Sanusi, SpPD, chairman MPKS in the event a press briefing about the WHA and vaccine preparation health department meningitis in the building, Jakarta, Friday (05/14/2010).

MPKS is a council that will study about various problems that might be a little sensitive when viewed from a religion. Some things that are reviewed by MPKS tube babies, artificial insemination, vasectomy, tubectomy, abortion, the polio vaccine and meningitis vaccine.

"We examine the scientific system of how the process from beginning to end product obtained, for meningitis vaccine was taken only a polysaccharide," said Dr Sanusi.

Does that mean halal meningitis vaccine? Responding, Dr Sanusi simply said, "Regarding the final decision is entirely up to the MUI fatwa or not kosher."

Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) health ministry Prof. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, SPP (K), MARS, DTM & H, DTCE tells the vaccine meningitis used Indonesia for prospective pilgrims with vaccine meningitis used to other countries such as Malaysia and also Saudi Arabia.

"Meningitis can be caused by himself why viruses or bacteria. Candidates should be given to pilgrims meningitis vaccine for fear of meningitis disease transmission from pilgrims of other countries including the meningitis belt that is still endemic in South African countries," said Minister of Health Dr Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, MPH, Dr.PH.

This year is estimated there are about 210 thousand pilgrims, because it was the availability of this vaccine is very important. Currently kemenkes already in the process of distribution of vaccines and are just waiting for it.

"Now there are two types of meningitis vaccine that exists in Indonesia and there is one more new sign up. But about halal or not wait for a decision from the MUI and is still in the process," said Prof. Tjandra.

4 Healthy Tips For Overcoming Migraine

Cambridge, migraine is that although the headaches are not life threatening, but the disease is classified as severe because it was so excruciating. When a migraine coming, there are four ways that can be done.

Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, neurologists from Cambridge Health Alliance-Cambridge Campus, as reported from Dailymail, Friday (5/14/2010) said this during a migraine man for allegedly afraid of coffee can trigger a headache. But really, enough with one to two cups of coffee can actually relieve a migraine.

The fourth way to deal with migraine are:

1. A cup or two cups of coffee can help relieve migraine

Caffeine is a drug cheapest, easiest and most widely available to deal with migraines. Narrowing of blood vessels can reduce the pain. If you're having a migraine, drink one or two cups of black coffee or caffeinated soft drinks, for most people can reduce the symptoms of migraine.

Caffeine also helps absorb other drugs that cause migraines. And caffeine is a stimulant of the brain that can help people think better if it is in 'fog' migraine.

2. Massage

Muscle cramps can be a migraine trigger for many people. You may experience muscle spasms in the neck, back or shoulder, especially if too long sitting in front of the computer or driving.

Teeth, the muscles of the face or scalp sometimes gripping, especially at night, so you wake up with a migraine. Massage can help if the migraine is accompanied by muscle spasm, as this will make you relax.

Although data are not large enough, a study at a major university found that massage twice a week for five weeks can reduce 50 percent of migraine.

3. Yoga

A recent study in India found that people who suffer from migraine and do yoga with a combination of meditation and other relaxation techniques, can reduce migraine pain reduction. Anxiety and depression would be reduced.

4. Magnesium

Magnesium may be a magic mineral for migraine sufferers. Although not help everyone, taking supplements of magnesium every day may help prevent migraines.

Research has shown that magnesium supplements may help relieve migraines, including reduced due to menstrual migraine.

How can magnesium help? Magnesium is a mineral essential for several functions in the body, including the heart, bones and muscles. Magnesium regulate blood vessels in operation, reduce pain and calm the nervous system, which may help relieve migraines.

It also can help reduce stress by working on the sympathetic nervous system and can regulate blood sugar levels, which are two trigger migraines. And more importantly, magnesium affect serotonin production and regulation. Serotonin is a chemical substance produced by the body and is necessary nerve cells and brain to function.

Many people are magnesium deficient because foods high in sugar and fat, which prevents peneyrapannya into the body. People who suffer migraine usually have below normal levels of magnesium. Dr. Bernstein recommends taking 400 mg of magnesium per day for two months probation. But you should consult your doctor if you have any problems with the kidneys.

DNA Test Equipment Cancel For Free Sale

New York, DNA or Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid is a nucleic acid that stores all information about genetics. DNA can determine your hair type, skin color and specific qualities of human beings.

So do not be surprised if people are so intrigued with the DNA because they want to know the properties of the gene itself. But unfortunately the proposed sale of a free DNA test was not granted by the drug regulatory authority adan U.S. Food Administration (FDA).

After receiving opposition from the FDA, pharmaceutical company marketing tool Walgreens canceled personal DNA test. Controversial product has not yet been approved by the FDA to use freely.

Quoted from Reuters, Friday (05/14/2010), Walgreens claims that products marketed with Pathway Genomics can help consumers obtain genetic information. This is useful for predicting the health condition based on the history of descent.

Pathway-party calls at least 70 diseases that can be predicted using these tools, including diabetes, blindness, and genetic kelaianan cystic fibrosis. Health conditions that can be derived can also be predicted for example obesity.

In one set of tools that will be marketed with a price of 20-30 dollars is (approximately USD 180-270 thousand), there is an envelope for saliva sample manaruh. Samples can be sent to the laboratory Pathways, then consumers have to pay 79-249 dollars to get a complete analysis.

Related to the lack of permission from the FDA, Pathway argued that this tool is not intended for medical use and care so it does not require a permit from the FDA. But this argument was rebutted by the FDA.

In a statement sent by mail to several media including Reuters, the FDA said emphatically tool must meet a specific regulation. The letter was written by James Woods, one of the officials at the FDA. Since the beginning of this equipment actually has sparked controversy. Among doctors and experts consider genetic DNA testing is a complex process, and will trigger the panic and confusion in case of errors.

Soy milk versus Cow Milk, Which is Better?

Many people are switching to soy milk because of allergy to lactose, which is the main carbohydrate in cow milk. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each milk this?

Lactose, the main carbohydrate in cow's milk, will cause digestive problems for some people. People who are intolerant (intolerant) to lactose by a deficiency of the enzyme lactose, which is necessary to break down lactose. This makes people intolerant to produce gas, bloating and diarrhea after eating some form of dairy cows.

Soy milk is a substitute for people who are allergic to cow's milk. Technically, soy milk is not milk as in cow's milk, but juice beverage made from soybeans. Soy milk is also popular among vegetarians, because the basic material of plant origin.

Today, more people are deliberately choosing soy milk instead of cow's milk for health benefits it offers. But the benefits of soy is still a debate, although it is generally accepted that soy milk contains a large number of compounds are very healthy.

The debate over soy milk and cow's milk

The main difference between soy milk and cow's milk is the source, ie plants and animals.

As quoted from SteadyHealth, Friday (14/05/2010), one cup of soy milk is not fortified (still pure, yet they were enriched) contains nearly 7 grams protein, 4 grams carbohydrates, 4.5 grams of fat and contain no cholesterol.

Although soy milk contains vitamin B, but this milk is not a source of B12 and does not provide significant calcium intake.

Since the soy milk made of cow's milk substitute, the producers have offered versions of soy milk that has been enriched, with calcium, vitamin E, B12, vitamin D and other nutrients.

While milk cow to provide carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals, and fats. All cow's milk contains 8 grams of protein and 12 grams of carbohydrate per cup. It is also a rich source of other nutrients.

One cup of cow's milk provides 30 percent of the daily calcium requirement of adults, and about 50 percent of vitamin B12 and riboflavin. Often fortified with vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption, and also vitamin A. So the cow's milk is considered a complete food.

The advantage of dairy cow milk

Dairy cows experience the process of pasteurization, which is a process in which milk is heated, kills bacteria, enzymes and proteins are not profitable. Cow's milk is rich in enzymes and actually contains the 22 essential amino acids, including phosphate, which is essential for calcium absorption.

Raw cow's milk or perahan has many health benefits and is the best source of calcium. Milk is a source of vitamins, especially vitamin B12, which is an important vitamin that is hard to find from the sources of non-meat. And also contains enzymes IgG (Immunoglobulin), vitamins A, B and C.

Research also shows that the milk of dairy cows also contains enzymes and antibodies that actually make milk less susceptible to bacteria. Lipase is also present which aids digestion of fat. Another great benefit is that cow milk contains CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) or conjugated linoleic acid, which has been observed to fight cancer.

The advantages of soy milk

The health benefits of soy milk it is irrefutable. However, many people who care about the ratio of soy milk with cow's milk was measured. Soy milk is high in protein, and because it is made from peanuts also contain a much higher fiber than cow's milk.

The biggest benefit is the isoflavones from soy milk. These are chemicals that resemble the hormone estrogen. Isoflavones linked to health problems and is responsible for preventing many cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis and many other diseases.

Fat-free soy milk. Soy milk has 2 percent less fat than cow's milk, but do not contain cholesterol.

Because soy milk made from peanuts, milk contains about 9 times less saturated fat than cow milk. In addition, soy milk has 10 times more fatty acids than cow's milk, which is a healthy fat.

Cholesterol-free soy milk. In addition, soy can reduce Suu LDL cholesterol, whereas cow's milk increase LDL cholesterol levels. Soy milk also provides additional protection to the liver with phytochemicals, abundant in soy milk.

Soy milk contains four times more the amount of thiamin (vitamin B1) and almost twice the amount of niacin (vitamin B3) compared with cow's milk. Soy milk also contains more magnesium, copper and manganese from dairy cows.

Soy milk also contains 42 times the amount of manganese as well as cow's milk. Manganese is necessary for bone formation. People with anemia requires manganese for iron storage. Research has shown that men who drank two glasses of soy milk every day 70 percent lower prostate cancer. There are no similar findings about people who drink cow's milk.

Weaknesses soy milk

The major shortcoming is the lack of soy milk contain calcium, which is only about a quarter of the calcium contained in dairy cows. Many manufacturers of soy milk to add calcium to their products, but studies show that it is not as healthy as natural calcium.

The core nine amino acids in the protein necessary to sustain life, cow's milk and soy milk contain nearly identical amount.

Grams of cow's milk has the fifth amino acid is more important than soy milk. Because one of the nine essential amino acids is methionine, this may be a triumph for lovers of cow's milk. Cow's milk contains two times more methionine than soy milk.

Soy milk contains riboflavin, about 60 percent less than cow milk. Riboflavin is an essential vitamin, but also found in certain grains, nutritional yeast, green leafy vegetables, beans, and wheat. Therefore, instead of cow's milk for riboflavin resources necessary for people who eat a balanced diet.

Women who have breast cancer may need to limit the intake of soy protein, because several studies have pointed to possible dangers of consuming excess soy. Another study published in the journal Human Reproduction, found 41 million fewer sperm per milliliter of semen after eating just one serving of soy-containing foods every two days.

But keep in mind, both kinds of milk was not given to infants under the age of one year. Breast milk is the food and beverages for babies, because all sources of nutrients needed for growth and development is contained in breast milk.

Germs Got Ocean Islands

Norfolk - ever imagine, there are also islands in the ocean for the germs? The island had become an ideal place for germs to breed and spread waterborne diseases (acquired and transmitted in water).

The island is actually a "marine snow, or marine snow formed from the remnants of dead organisms. Named because of its form is the sea of snow-white flakes floating in sea water.

Dead animals and dead vegetation around the coast will rot and decompose, and the remainder in the form of floating marine snow before finally settles with sand and other objects. Sometimes, the snow became food for marine fish and shellfish in the ocean.

Dikutiip from LiveScience, Friday (5/14/2010), the researchers found that marine snow deposition not only become fish food. For germs such as viruses and bacteria, sediment marine snow is like a friendly island for shelter.

When in sea water, germs must fight against various threats such as sunlight, salinity or high salinity, and predators. Sheltered between marine snow deposition makes germs more able to survive and even breed.

"The remains of decomposition of micro-organisms providing a favorable climate for the germs. If not controlled, marine snow can be a growth medium pathogenic germs," said Fred Dobbs from Old Dominion University who participated in the study.

In the snow-sea sediments, these germs metabolism increases (which means to be more active). Types of germs in place also more diverse than those observed in water samples.

This reinforces the conclusion that marine snow deposition is a good shelter for the bacteria. The researchers also found several types of pathogens capable of breeding at the site.

Nevertheless, researchers trouble seeing possibility of transmission of pathogenic germs to humans. The nature of marine snow drifting though has formed can complicate sediment sampling.

According to the researchers, there are few things more likely to be further investigated. For example, how long germs could thrive, and the relationship between the size of marine snow deposition with how various types of germs that live in it.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID). The results were published in the journal Aquatic Microbial Ecology edition of May 4, 2010.

Why Should People Fake Illness?

None of the people in this world who want to have a serious disease like cancer. But in fact there are certain people who pretend to be sick. In some cases inside and outside the country, people use sick excuse for avoiding a legal case in court or because the reasons for wanting to get sympathy and material.

What is the background pretending someone very sick?

As reported by LiveScience, Saturday (15/05/2010) in the year 2008, a woman named Dina Leone from Baltimore to give a surprising news for families and friends. He claimed to have been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

This 37-year-old mother wrote a note and its progress in a blog and Facebook. Thus he gained the support and assistance to help pay the maintenance money and fulfill a dying wish.

But everything is very tragic and a sham. Police conduct an investigation and found that hospitals that visited Leone does not have the medical records about him.

Leone has finally admitted that he only pretended sick for three years, so he was indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy.

Why do people have to lie and pretend to be sick?

The main motivation is usually a person admitted malingering is to gain sympathy, so he became the center of the attention, all desires can be realized and he was getting attention from old friends or family. But sometimes the falsehood was based on a desire to get a lot of money.

One case in point is a woman from Boston who claimed that Christian Cloughety cancer in friends and family. Sympathy for the people who held a fundraiser on his behalf and get the money of about U.S. $ 50,000. But it was reported that he used the money to buy new cars and breast implants.

But there are some people who actually have the disease or disorder, in this case is not cancer but a mental illness known to man-made disturbances (factitious disorder).

People with this disorder to pretend to have a disease (usually in the terminal one) and often try hard to maintain such a joke.

A person feels that he has a disease, but in some cases involving the most tragic fact of her children.

One type of artificial disturbance is Munchausen syndrome, which involves people such as children or others who suffer from a disease that made him have to take care of these sick people.

Examples in the year 2003, there were parents of seven year old girl named Hannah Milbrandt told friends and family that her daughter had cancer.

The mother, Teresa Milbrandt did everything to make him look sick. She shaved her head to mimic the side effects of chemotherapy, her daughter put a protective mask because her immune system was considered to be disturbed and drugged his daughter with sleeping pills to make her feel dizzy.

Even worse was that he said it will not look past his teenage daughter and convinced her son will actually die. Until finally he provided aid donations about $ 10,000 for his family in April and December. But it is known that the girl was not hurt.

Although Munchausen syndrome is a rare disorder, but this is hardly unique. Two years before a women from Indiana collects more than U.S. $ 6000 by saying that her daughter was dying of leukemia affected.

Artificial disturbance was likely more common than people realize. Some cases are found as a joke and eventually just a sham. But there are also cases of people tend to suddenly start getting better for fear of arousing suspicion action.

Malingering disorders can menimbukan implications for people who actually have cancer or other diseases, as this could lead to mistrust of people towards the victim's real or illness.

Health, social care and personal map making

There have been two series running on BBC 4 in the UK over recent months and currently with a cartographic and historical focus:

see - The Beauty of Maps

This Vermeer - The Art of Painting - was featured in one programme and reveals the power and status of maps as Wikipedia also explains.

It is natural to see the health career model as a map, but this map is not just the preserve of the wealthy. Hodges' model can be used universally by all - a common framework.


Use of the term map and its synonyms is in turn common in medicine in many forms:

The map of medicine
Anatomical charts
WHO Global Health Atlas
The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)
Globalis
HealthMap

The above sites reveal how maps, charts and atlases relate the individual, geography and health.

In addition to its geographic connotation projection also has a psychological meaning. Hodges' model provides a substrate* on which to project personalised, national and global health.

An individual; a people; a nation: for each a journey .... and for each a map ....

Image source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Painting_%28Vermeer%29

* You have to love that floor ;-)