Chronic kidney disease: prevention and diagnosis

Chronic kidney disease develops in patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obstructive processes primarily, although other causes. The presence of protein in the urine and slight elevation in serum creatinine may be early indicators of kidney disease. Should be diagnosed at an early stage chronic...

The morning-after pill is not abortive

Confirmed, levonorgestrel (the active ingredient of the morning-after pill) does not interfere with the implantation of a fertilized egg, say the latest studies by the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC) and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO ). This is...

Lymphatic cancer, 17 years after he suffered Jacqueline Kennedy

Jackie was 64 and enjoyed excellent health until 1994, was diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer that was in an advanced stage of development. The widow of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Greek Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, died shortly after the now better known non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a disease...