Babies will soon be immunised against a type of meningitis that kills about 10 under-fives each year and leaves dozens more permanently disabled.
Health Minister Pete Hodgson has confirmed the National Immunisation Schedule for 2008. It includes the pneumococcal vaccine Prevenar for all babies born from January 1.
The acting manager of the National Immunisation Programme, Dr Alison Roberts, said all babies would now have free access to immunisations protecting against 11 serious diseases.
"A baby's immune system responds very well to multiple vaccines at one visit," she said.
"The ministry's advice is that it is safe and effective."
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Heart disease symptoms in women
Women’s most killer in the west is heart disease, actually heart disease kills more women than men. “Women are less likely to have a heart attack than men, despite heart attack emergence increases with age” said Dr. Vernon V. S. Bonarjee.
The researches tested the short- and long-term sex-related variations in survival between high-risk patients with heart attack. An overall of 5,477 subjects were followed for a mean of 2.7 years.
By comparing, women were older than men and they had more heart disease symptoms, high blood pressure and cholesterol. Moreover, women who were treated with clot-busting drugs were fewer.
A total of 619 men and 327 women died during the study. As mention, there were no differences between men and women in long-term survival, but the death rate in women was higher than men by 57%.
The usual symptoms of heart attack may be missing in women which leads to a late in treatment and, therefore the results are worse in women.
As the study found heart disease symptoms could be missing in women, so they should be careful and heart disease check regularly.
The researches tested the short- and long-term sex-related variations in survival between high-risk patients with heart attack. An overall of 5,477 subjects were followed for a mean of 2.7 years.
By comparing, women were older than men and they had more heart disease symptoms, high blood pressure and cholesterol. Moreover, women who were treated with clot-busting drugs were fewer.
A total of 619 men and 327 women died during the study. As mention, there were no differences between men and women in long-term survival, but the death rate in women was higher than men by 57%.
The usual symptoms of heart attack may be missing in women which leads to a late in treatment and, therefore the results are worse in women.
As the study found heart disease symptoms could be missing in women, so they should be careful and heart disease check regularly.
Stomach Surgery May Save Teenagers From Heart Disease
Sao Camilo Hospital, heart disease reasearches said that teenagers who reduced their stomachs size by surgery have lost approximately half of their weight. And laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery removed high blood pressure and diabetes of type 2 from the teenagers who had these surgeies. Forty two teenagers aged between 13 to 18 with average weight 269 pounds were involved in the study.Four years after the surgeries the average weight felt to 135 pounds.The result was 16 teenagers were Cured from hypertension and trhree from type 2 diabetes.
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