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Birth Control Methods and Side Effects |
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Written by Jonathan Green
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Birth control is a method of medication by which pregnancy is prevented deliberately or reduces the likelihood of pregnancy. Birth control is nothing but a part of family planning. Contraception is a term often related to birth control and it refers to methods that are used to reduce the likelihood of an egg getting fertilized by a sperm cell. Earlier different methods like coitus interruptus, ingestion of herbs and pessaries were used as contraceptive methods. In modern days different methods of birth control are introduced and it has been proved to be successful though one needs to be cautious about birth control side effects .
Egyptian women used one of the oldest methods of birth control. It is called Barrier method in which they used vaginal suppositories. Today women use either cervical cap or traditional diaphragm or lea’s shield to prevent pregnancy. The periodic abstinence or natural method is a method in which a woman abstains from sex on fertile days. This method requires no medicine or internal devices. This method uses charts like symptothermal method, ovulation method and calendar methods like rhythm method and standard days method. |
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Written by Jonathan Green
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Acyclovir brought in a new revolution in antiviral therapy, with its extremely low and selective cytotoxicity. Gertrude B. Elion, the pharmacologist was given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for partly developing of Acyclovir.
Acyclovir is different from the previous analogues of nucleoside as it contains only a partial structure of nucleoside where instead of the sugar ring it has an open chain structure. It can be converted into monophosphate which approximately 3000 times more effective in phosphorylation than the thymidine kinase cellular.
Acyclovir is considered as a prodrug, it is mostly administered in inactive form and it metabolizes after the administration into more active species. Acyclovir is active against most of the herpes virus family. |
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Symptoms, Causes, Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm |
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Written by Jonathan Green
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An aneurysm is a localized widening of a blood vessel in an area. Aortic aneurysm would involve the aorta and could develop anywhere along the length of the aorta. The majority of aneurysm is located in the abdominal aorta. In most of the abdominal aneurysms are located under the renal arteries, the vessels, which leave the aorta and they go to kidneys. Two-third of abdominal aneurysm are not just limited to the aorta but get extended from the aorta into one or both the iliac arteries. Most of the abdominal aortic aneurysms are fusiform and are spindle shaped and widen all around the circumference of the aorta. The walls inside of the aneurysm are often lined with a blood clot that is like a piece of plywood.
The abdominal aortic aneurysm is mostly common after the age of 60 years. Males get affected five times more than females due to this disorder. Several studies show that about five percent of men above the age of sixty do develop an abdominal aortic aneurysm. There are several risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysm and this includes cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes mellitus. Due to cigarette smoking it not only increases the risk of developing an abdominal aortic aneurysm but there is a chance of aneurysm rupture, which could be life-threatening and is a complicate the aortic aneurysm. The incidence of aortic aneurysm rupture will be very common in most of the smokers. |
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