Night Life in Makati

I finally experience the night life in Makati. I mean not really going inside the bars and discos or any pubs here. We always passed them by every time we go to our hotel. I am still in Makati right now with my brother. We just checked-out from our hotel because our flight will be around 4:15 AM tomorrow. we are still planning for a little sightseeing in Ermita and Malate. More about night life in Makati. You can find here a lot of 24 hours opened restaurants, pubs, clubs and bars during the night and since this is the financial capital of the Philippines, there are a lot of banks here. We saw a lot of young girls working in clubs here. I guess they can't find anymore other alternative in looking for a decent job. That might be the reason why they landed on this kind of work. I hope that they are aware of the so-called herpes simplex virus so that they can avoid this kind of sickness. This is quite scary especially if you are affected with it. You can browse for it online if you wish to know about it. happy weekend!

It's Time to Hope and See Light Again

There are some things that remind me some years ago. This might be a sad story but maybe it will give insights to those who are victims of the so-called drug addiction. I just remember a neighbor before who is a drug addict and it was really a bad situation. That was around 20 years ago and I even don't know what happen to him now. In fact I also have a cousin who is also a drug addict. I can't imagine when he chased some neighbors with knife before and the story ended in the hospital as he stubbed one. He was imprisoned for that. I was still young during those times, in my elementary grades and I can't forget that scenery. Since I left my home country, my cousin already got married and have children. I am happy that he changed his life now and live together with his family.

Situation like this can be very tragic if there will be no immediate addiction treatment that will be given to the victim. We are happy nowadays that there are already rehabilitation centers who are able to help those victims back to normal life. There is still hope for them to see the light and live a normal life. Narconon Drug Rehab Program aims the same, to help drug addict victims get recovered with their anxiety of being slaved in drugs. They provide detoxification programs that help individuals to attain a normal and drug-free life. Their vitamin-rich regimen has a high rate of success compared to other drug rehab center. If ever you have know a friend or maybe a family member who have the same problem, don't hesitate to contact Narconon before it's too late. Live a happy and drug-free life!

Sympathy to Sick People!

It is a very sad story when somebody in the family is sick. It might be worse when the sickness is a terminal one and there is no more cure for that sickness. Cancer sickness for example like mesothelioma is also very dangerous. Most people who have this sickness got it from their job which has exposure to asbestos, a kind of chemical element. I sympathize to those who have one. I hope that those poor victims of this sickness will have miracle or will be cured and be backed to their normal health. Keep on praying! God always listen. If ever I will be given three wishes..one of which is having good health always! I hope you too! Cheers and Enjoy your weekend because I will! I ma excited for tomorrow's escapade.More updates on Sunday!

Updates About Swine Flu

This is a subscribed email from arcamax.com. I am just sharing this article just to give you some information about the latest Swine Flu Virus that hit the whole world now. Keep reading and be informed! Happy Thursday

Swine flu not linked with today's pigs

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) -- A Purdue University veterinarian says flu viruses are named for the first animal in which they are found; the current swine flu was discovered in pigs in 1930.

That discovery is the only reason the current outbreak is called swine flu, said Purdue swine medicine expert Sandy Amass. "We don't even know if the virus found in humans will infect pigs."

No U.S. pigs have been found with swine flu (H1N1) in the current outbreak -- only humans -- but Amass says pork producers should take precautionary measures to protect their herds from being infected with any flu virus:

-- Do not permit people, including employees that have the flu or flu-like symptoms, in or around barns.

-- Do not allow any visitors to the farm, especially international visitors who have had contact with other livestock.

-- If pigs show flu symptoms -- coughing, runny nose, fever and a reduction in feed intake -- call a veterinarian and have them tested.

"It's important to make sure your biosecurity procedures are being followed," Amass said. "If you have any concern, work with your vet because they know your operation best."

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Subject: Fw: Leptospirosis Disease

I have this forwarded email in my inbox. I thought of sharing this before I will delete it..who knows this might help some people out there who love to drink directly on bottles or cans..I believed nothing will be lost if I just share this here, whether this is true or not, it is worth sharing...keep reading please this might help you!! thanks and have a great weekend ahead!!

Subject: Fw: Leptospirosis Disease

This incident happened recently in North Texas . A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in ICU. She died on Wednesday.

The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the can of coke she drank from without using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.

Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper part of soda cans before drinking out of them. The cans are typically stocked in warehouse s and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.

A study at NYCU showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e)... full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.

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Step taken in fighting staph infections

IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have succeeded in killing established biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus by using one of the bacteria's own regulatory systems. Although the discovery isn't ready for clinical application, University of Iowa researchers said their findings offer insight into a dispersal mechanism for staph biofilms and might help identify therapeutic targets.

Biofilms are communities of bacteria that grow on moist surfaces, including heart valves, bone and medical implants, the scientists said. Highly resistant to antibiotic therapy, biofilm infections represent a tough and dangerous medical problem.

"We have shown that activating the cells' communication system, also known as quorum sensing, in established biofilms causes the biofilms to disperse rapidly," said Assistant Professor Alexander Horswill.

"This is the first report of an existing dispersal pathway in Staph aureus. If we can tap into this mechanism, then that might lead to better treatments." The findings were published in the April 25 issue of the journal PL0S Pathogens.

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New Parkinson's treatments possible

MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've made a discovery that might lead to new treatments for central nervous system maladies such as Parkinson's disease.

Researchers led by Karen Mesce and Joshua Puhl of the University of Minnesota discovered it's possible the human nervous system -- within each segment of the spinal cord -- might have its own "unit burst generator" to control rhythmic movements such as walking.

By studying a simpler model of locomotion in the medicinal leech, the researchers discovered each nerve cord segment has a complete unit burst generator. When a neuron fires, it sets off a chain reaction that gives rise to rhythmic movement, they said.

Mesce and her research group targeted the segmented leech for study because they have fewer and larger neurons, thereby making them easier to study.

Mesce said the study found that dopamine -- a common human hormone -- can activate each of the complete generator units.

"Because dopamine affects movement in many different animals, including humans, our studies may help to identify treatments for Parkinson's patients and those with spinal cord injury," Mesce said.

The study is available online in the Journal of Neuroscience.

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Elderly women benefit from mammograms

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests that women 70 and older benefit from yearly mammograms to help detect breast cancer.

Researchers at Jacobi Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine reviewed the mammographies of 24 cases of breast cancer in 22 patients 70 to 89 and correlated the results to surgically proven histology and lymph node involvement.

"Our initial interest was sparked by the changing mammographic guidelines in the elderly age group and the differences in the guidelines between organizations, including the American Cancer Society and American College of Radiology," lead author Dr. Jason Salsamendi said.

"During our study, we found that five patients never had a prior mammogram. Their breast cancer was detected on a baseline study. These five patients included three cases of infiltrating ductal carcinoma."

The study results encourage clinicians to continue to order screening mammography in elderly patients at yearly intervals, Salsamendi said.

The study is scheduled to be presented as an electronic exhibit during the American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting in Washington this week.

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Study links incontinence drugs with memory problems

By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO - Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found. "Our message is to be careful when using these medicines," said U.S. Navy neurologist Dr. Jack Tsao, who led the study. "It may be better to use diapers and be able to think clearly than the other way around."

Urinary incontinence sometimes can be resolved with non-drug treatments, he added, so patients should ask about alternatives. Exercises, biofeedback and keeping to a schedule of bathroom breaks work for many.

U.S. sales of prescription drugs to treat urinary problems topped $3 billion in 2007, according to IMS Health, which tracks drug sales. Bladder control trouble affects about one in 10 people age 65 and older, according to the National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the study. Women are more likely to be affected than men. Causes include nerve damage, loss of muscle tone or, in men, enlarged prostate.

The research began after Tsao met a 73-year-old patient. Shortly after starting an incontinence drug, she began hallucinating conversations with dead relatives and having memory problems. Her thinking improved when she stopped the drug for several months.

Tsao and his colleagues knew of similar reports. They decided to look at a large group of people to see if they could measure an effect of these and other medications that affect acetylcholine, a chemical messenger that shuttles signals through the brain and the rest of the nervous system. The drugs block some nerve impulses, such as spasms of the bladder.

The findings, released Thursday at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, come from an analysis of the medication use and cognitive test scores of 870 older Catholic priests, nuns and brothers who participated in the Religious Orders Study at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. The average age was 75.

Researchers tracked them for nearly eight years, testing yearly for cognitive decline. They asked them to recite strings of numbers backward and forward, to name as many different kinds of fruit as they could in one minute and to complete other challenges during the annual testing.

Nearly 80 percent of the study participants took one or more of a class of drugs called anticholinergics, including drugs for high blood pressure, asthma, Parkinson's disease and incontinence drugs such as Detrol and Ditropan.

The people who took the drugs had a 50 percent faster rate of cognitive decline compared to those who didn't take any. The researchers considered other risk factors for memory loss, such as age, and still found the link. The researchers found no increased risk for the memory-robbing disorder Alzheimer's in people taking the drugs.

The incontinence drugs were among the most potent and were the most frequently taken of all the anticholinergics in the study. That's why the researchers believe they are driving the memory problems, Tsao said.

Some experts said the research supports previous observations and is helpful because it measures the size of the effect.

"This paper adds important new data to the picture," said Dr. Elaine Perry of Newcastle University in England, who has done similar research but was not involved in the new study.

More research is needed on the effects of anticholinergic drugs on memory, Tsao said. Doctors should do baseline cognitive testing on patients before prescribing the drugs, he recommended.

A representative of Pfizer Inc., maker of the top-selling Detrol, said patients should always talk to their doctors about problems while taking medication.

"Detrol has been on the market since 1998. It has been prescribed more than 100 million times worldwide," said Ponni Subbiah, Pfizer's vice president of medical affairs, in an e-mail response to questions.

Confusion and memory impairment were added to prescribing information for Detrol in 2006, Subbiah said, after some patients reported the problems. Since the reports weren't part of a medical study, "the frequency of events and the role of Detrol in their causation cannot be reliably determined," he said.

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Potential diabetes drug target identified

TORONTO (UPI) -- Canadian scientists said they have discovered a novel signalling pathway between the gut, brain and liver that lowers blood sugar when it is activated.

The scientists at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, led by Dr. Tony Lam, used a rat model to discover that fats can activate a subset of nerves in the intestine, which then send a signal to the brain and subsequently to the liver to lower glucose production.

"This is a new approach in developing more effective methods to lower glucose or blood sugar levels in those who are obese or have diabetes," said Lam. "We already knew that the brain and liver can regulate blood glucose levels, but the question has been, how do you therapeutically target either of these two organs without incurring side effects?

"We may have found a way around this problem by suggesting that the gut can be the initial target instead," he added.

"If new medicines can be developed that stimulate this sensing mechanism in the gut, we may have an effective way of slowing down the body's production of sugar …," said Lam.

The research appears in the online issue of the journal Science in advance of print publication.

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Scientists ID Lou Gehrig's disease gene

MONTREAL (UPI) -- A team of Canadian and French researchers said it has identified a gene responsible for a significant fraction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases.

ALS -- commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease -- is an incurable neuromuscular disorder.

Researchers at the University of Montreal and Waterloo and Laval Universities in Canada, along with the Institute of Biology and the Federation of Nervous System Diseases in France, identified several genetic mutations in the TDP-43 gene. They established TDP-43 as the gene responsible for up to 5 percent of the 200 ALS patients in the study.

Two years ago, a team from the University of Pennsylvania discovered TDP-43 in abnormal protein clumps in ALS patients. However, it wasn't certain whether TDP-43 caused motor neuron disease or was just a pathological marker.

"The identification of additional mutations in TDP-43 in other ALS patients will confirm that this gene is a prominent cause of this type of disorder," said Dr. Guy Rouleau of the University of Montreal, who said the findings "will provide crucial insight into how TDP-43 aggregate and ultimately kill motor neurons."

The research appears in the online edition of the journal Nature Genetics.

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Ants may provide better human medicines

PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) -- U.S. molecular biologists have determined proteins found in the intestines of some ants might be used to create new antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria.

Princeton University researcher Natividad Ruiz, lead author of the study, and his colleagues discovered two key proteins guide one of the two groups of pathogenic bacteria that make carpenter ants' strong outer shells -- their defense against the world.

The work, the biologists said, could allow researchers to create antibiotics against gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella. Such antibiotics would destroy the bacteria by disabling the mechanism that produces their protective coating.

The study that included Princeton Professor Thomas Silhavy and researchers from Harvard University is to be reported in the April 8 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Physical Therapy and Fitness

I made some photos last week on different Equipments used by PT's in handling patients for therapy. These are from Reha Werkstatt Physiotheraphie in Parsberg. I am also having at this moment here PT sessions for my back pains. Thanks God that I don't have that much pain any more compared before. I guess some of the equipments below were also used by my husband during his therapy on his broken ankle. They really made their good jobs..Keep it up guys!!

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Causes of Liver Damage

Hello dear friends!! I got some helpful tips for your health..I believe that these are true..so please read it..don't forget to share and tell your family and friends!! hope this info will help us to be aware of our health..

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late
2. Not urinating in the morning
3. Too much eating
4. Skipping breakfast
5. Consuming too much medication
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming overly done foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent sickness without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time conditioning are very important for our bodies to absorb good nutrients and get rid of harmful chemicals.