Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit News- 1/24/2012 : The female pelvic organs consist of the vagina, uterus, bladder, urethra, and rectum (Fig. 2.1). All these organs are enclosed in a protective cage called the bony pelvis. The vagina is the birth canal, which the baby passes through during delivery. It is also the organ used during sexual [...]
Actos Cancer: This shift in treatment direction is a very important point and it can be confusing. On the one hand, your medical team is still trying very actively to cure the cancer, if possible, and to prolong your life and improve its quality to the maximum extent. However, because the chance of cure is [...]
Trans Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit: Some women wear pads to protect their underwear and clothes from urine leakage. Your doctor will probably ask you about this during the office visit. The size and absorbency of pads vary, as does die frequency that women change them during the day. In order to accurately measure the amount of [...]
Actos Bladder Cancer : TURBT is often the first procedure you will have once diagnosed with a bladder tumor. This surgery is typically performed under general or spinal anesthesia as an outpatient procedure and without any incision, endoscopically through the urethra, which means a cystoscope is placed through the urethra and into the bladder. Through this [...]
Multaq Liver Failure : Patients with ascites are at risk for SBP. This infection should be considered in any patient with ascites who develops fever or abdominal pain. Sometimes, SBP will appear as a general deterioration in overall condition or worsening hepatic encephalopathy in the absence of fever. The diagnostic procedure for SBP is paracentesis. [...]
Multaq : A little background on the virus that causes hepatitis B is essential for understanding the disease, its symptoms, and especially its diagnosis. The existence of hepatitis B virus was discovered by accident in the 1960s. In 1965, Dr. Baruch Blumberg and collaborators discovered a protein of the hepatitis B virus in the blood [...]
Multaq FDA : Hepatitis B virus can be transmitted by sharing needles. Intravenous drug users frequently share needles to inject heroin or cocaine, and blood is transmitted from one individual to the other via needle. In inner cities in the United States, intravenous drug use is a major risk factor for hepatitis B. Hepatitis B [...]
Multaq Warnings : Tumors that originate in other parts of the body often metastasize to the liver, but a primary malignant liver tumor begins in the liver itself. The most common type of liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma, often called hepatoma or HCC-—-one of the most common cancers we know. As many as one million [...]
Multaq Warning : The most important initial therapeutic intervention to prevent edema and ascites in cirrhosis is a strict, low-salt diet. In individuals with significant ascites and/or edema, a daily allowance of only 500 milligrams of sodium chloride is ideal; however, most patients find this kind of diet terribly unpalatable. Nonetheless, it is important that [...]
Multaq : Vitamin E and the many different vitamin formulations containing vitamin E should be discontinued a week before the biopsy because they could boost the effectiveness of aspirin and some blood-thinning drugs. Herbs such as garlic, ginseng, and ginkgo biloba could have the same effect and should be avoided as well. One week to a month [...]