September 26, 2010
Filed under: New Born — Alan @ 4:28 am
The survival rate is the percentage of babies who live a certain length of time after a disease is diagnosed. This term is used in most cases in diseases that have a poor prognosis by causing high mortality in a given period, such as cancer. The survival rates of five years are used to establish a conventional wisdom to establish the prognosis.
The survival rate can be of two types:
Relative survival rate or specific to five years of statistical calculations exclude patients who have died from other diseases and is considered a more accurate way to describe the prognosis of baby’s with particular types and stages of cancer (although death from other causes does not mean that in that period they could not have died of this disease in particular).
Rate or actuarial overall survival at five years: Refers to the percentage of children alive after five years.
The inverse of the survival rate is the rate of mortality. Because 5-year rates are based on patients being diagnosed and initially treated more than five years ago, it is probably no longer correct today. Improvements in treatment often result in a more favorable prognosis for newly diagnosed patients. Terms related to survival rate, although they are not synonyms are:
Median survival
Survival time
Survival function
September 24, 2010
Filed under: Diet — admin @ 5:10 pm
For those who are meat eaters, throwing a dinner party with vegetarians in attendance can seem like a challenging feat. However, with Quorn you can easily accomplish this task with everyone, both meat eaters and non-eaters alike, satisfied and amazed by your cooking talents.
As a bonus, after you watch this great video on how to make pasta and sauce with Quorn you will want to make it for your family on every week, which is perfectly fine since it is low in fat, calories, and cholesterol, making it a great healthy choice for any day of the week.
The video for the Quorn pasta and sauce is a great find because it takes less than three minutes to watch and is simple enough that even novice cooks can follow along without a hitch. Perfectly illustrated and perfectly executed, the Quorn pasta dish will become a family favourite once you try it. Due to the fact that the recipe only calls for basic cooking ingredients, you may even want to run out to the supermarket for some Quorn Smoky Ham deli slices and give it a whirl tonight.
The pasta and sauce dish simply calls for some pasta noodles, two eggs, parmesan cheese, crème fraiche, nutmeg, and some parsley making it simple enough for a quick dish served any night of the week.
While the astounding and savoury dish at the end may seem a little intimidating to a beginner, the truth of the matter is that even a teenager could master the dish because as you can see clearly in the video, it really is as simple as combining a few ingredients and serving it out in a dish. For a meal that is healthy and fresh, you can never go wrong with a Quorn recipe.
Filed under: Celebrity babies — Alan @ 1:51 am
Dannii Minogue wants to return to ‘The X Factor’ as glamorous as ever, and she’s working on it diligently. Dannii is most known by her sister Kylie Minogue, a cultural phenomenon since her first Grammy award winning pop song 'Love at First Sight'. Kyle has most recently been seen in the provocative video for luxury lingerie label Agent Provocateur. Dannii, however has always been centered around smaller projects and family. She has just returned from maternity leave in Australia, where she gave birth to a son, Ethan, with boyfriend Kris Smith.
Sources close to the singer, fashion model and ‘X Factor’ judge say that Dannii is worried she’ll compare unfavourably with ultra-trim Cheryl Cole, and she’s dieting religiously to get back to her pre-baby shape. Dannii had her baby on July 5 and she’s going back into the spotlight October 9 for what might be her final season with the immensely popular show.
Whether Dannii can lose any extra poundage before the big night is probably not as important as how all those millions of fans see her, and most of them are waiting breathlessly for her reappearance on the panel. The show is known for glam women and way up front style, and Dannii has been one of its biggest draws.
September 15, 2010
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 7:01 pm
A global survey that took a look at fertility treatments in over 100 countries has found that there are a wide variety of laws that are focused on IVF treatments, which has helped the growth of what is now known as ‘fertility tourism.’
Every year it is estimated that around 10,000 people head across the borders to seek out fertility treatments because the cost within their home country is either too high or the laws governing over who can receive IVF are too restrictive. There is no other medicinal field that is varied so much in clinical practice which has resulted due to religious and social divides over IVF instead of due to scientific differences of thought.
In Munich it is expected this week that the World Congress on Fertility experts will announce a new code of practice that should be followed when cross border care is provided that will later be published in full by the end of 2010.
Education director of the International Federation of Fertility Sciences, Professor Ian Cooke, stated that every country has its own guidelines when it comes to what acceptable use of IVF is and how well potential donors are screened. The organization supports patients that want to head abroad for treatments but wishes to mandate a set of national and international standards so that patients are safe.
The main reason that UK patients head abroad for IVF treatments is due to a shortage of potential egg donors with some clinics only able to offer two year waiting lists to patients. Many UK parents head to the Czech Republic and Spain due to the fact donors are paid and there are a plethora of potential eggs.
September 11, 2010
Filed under: Uncategorized — Alan @ 2:57 am
The new ‘modern man’ who is attempt to hold down a full time career while having a full role in their children’s daily lives are finding out that it is impossible to actually ‘have it all’ in the same way that independent ‘modern woman’ found out about twenty years ago.
This is what a study performed by the Medical Research Council revealed this week after it found that about one out of every five fathers who was trying to do it all faced depression by the time their first child enters secondary school.
The MRC study is a notable piece of research that took into account almost 87,000 families. It found that three percent were depressed during the first year of their first child’s life with the number of depressed fathers rising to 10% when their child reached age four, 16% by the time the child was eight, and 21% by the time their child reached the age of 12.
Mothers were also affected with 13% reported depressed by the time their first child reached their first birthday increasing up to 24% by the fourth birthday, 33% by the eighth birthday, and 39% reported depression by the time their child reached their 12% birthday.
However, the larger problem is the postnatal depression syndrome that seemed to be almost equally shared by fathers.
Postnatal depression counsellor, Liz Wise, stated that postnatal depression is a much larger problem for fathers even though it is usually only woman that are addressed. She continued to say that even mothers with postnatal depression have almost no support with the options for fathers practically non-existent.
September 5, 2010
Filed under: Child Birth — Alan @ 3:11 am
Some health experts on Tyneside believe that they have discovered the reason behind Down’s syndrome and miscarriages in older women. For many couples who wish to have children when they are in their 30s or 40s, this could be good news as the health risks for pregnant women of this age can be quite serious.
According to researchers, there could be a way to detect eggs that will form unhealthy children when parents are in middle age in the future. As well, this research could lead to a new method for reducing cell damage. Still, some medical experts have warned that this research will not make it possible to have children when women are in their late 40s. Analysts say that it is important to have a baby when the mother’s body is near the peak of its health.
Dr Mary Herbert of the Newcastle Institute of Ageing and Health says that women should not “delay having a baby”, as despite increased lifespans, the reproductive systems of women are not as fit for having a baby when they have reached middle age. The research finds that a specific protein may be the reason for irregular eggs in mice.
While it has long been known that having babies when women are in their 40s or even late 30s could be risky, it appears that the reason for this may finally be known by scientists. As women age, there are decreased levels of Cohesins, a protein, inside their body, which could cause the eggs to produce unhealthy children, according to the report. Still, some experts state that a cure may be found in the future that will allow older women to have healthy babies.
