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Knowing About Medical Solutions for Male Hair Loss

Admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:30:23 +0000

Male hair loss often responds to minoxidil and finasteride . As male pattern baldness occurs, hairs in the affected area become shorter and finer and are less pigmented with successive growth cycles. This type of baldness is also known as androgenic alopecia and is associated with the presence of dihydroxytesterone, which is a metabolite of testosterone. Finasteride is a competitive inhibitor of type II 5alpha-reductase that can lower dihydroxytesterone levels, preventing baldness.

The pathologic causes of alopecia are often evaluated when treating baldness in men. The patient’s medical history plays an important role in diagnosing the condition. The key elements considered include family history, medications, underlying medical illness, stress factors and the patterns and speed of hair loss. Male pattern baldness is characterized by an M pattern, while patchy alopecia is usually associated with conditions such as tinea capitits, lupus erythematosus and immune-mediated alopecia areata. Telogen effluvium is alopecia that occurs after a stressful event.

As of now, there are no studies that compare the effectiveness of minoxidil and finasteride. Some medical researchers have claimed, though, that minoxidil at two percent topical solution could grow hair in about 50 percent of patients. The medicine appeared to be ineffective for frontal baldness and effective in preventing hair thinning and loss. Studies on the effectiveness of finasteride on the other hand revealed that its greatest benefit may be in preventing further hair loss in men at the early stages of baldness.

Both minoxidil and finasteride have proven to be well tolerated by patients. The reported side effect of minoxidil is pruritis of the scalp, while finasteride revealed sexual side effects such as decreased libido and erectile dysfuction. Finasteride is not recommended to be used in women and children. When counseling patients, physicians should stress that effectiveness have been primarily demonstrated in younger men.

Scientists agree that further study is required to determine the long-term benefit of medications for male hair loss. It may also be possible to predict those who will respond to treatment with further study.

Improving Patient Medical Education With Video

Admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:40:24 +0000

There are many ways video is already being incorporated in medical technology. For example, there are many benefits to the use of video capsule endoscopy. A tiny, swallowable device, which includes a light source, an optical lens, a battery, and a transmitter, is ingested. The resulting video sends clearer pictures and helps identify more ailments that were previously more difficult to detect. The procedure is easy to perform, with few complications, and patient approved videos can then be used for further study, research, and in educational materials. When surgical videos are incorporated in educational presentations, the experience can be much more informative and understandable by a variety of viewers. The viewer is better able to relate to the information being presented, and it’s easier for the viewer to retain images, animations, and graphs, than plain text. Physicians are also able to communicate with patients in a more direct manner, and patients have a face to associate with a name or procedure. There is no question video is being used more frequently in many research and educational pursuits, and the medical field is helping lead the way. So if you are a physician or medical professional looking to find new channels for distributing information, video is an enticing way to capture and express your procedures and materials. Also, patients can benefit from viewing and learning from these videos. So remember to include video as an essential part of the plan when bringing your profession to the cutting edge of technology.

Booming Medical Answering Services

Admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:13 +0000

Medical answering services like phone answering service has become a popular medium of solving patient queries through the doctors in a fast and effective manner. Many medical call centers offer exclusive phone answering service used by healthcare professionals like doctors to interact with their patients on a regular basis. The advent of computers and internet has led to a great technological transformation by bringing in a new revolution into the field of science and technology. The mode of communication has become faster, quicker and more effective enabling better information dissemination across the globe. Using the power of internet, doctors are able to provide greater attention to their patients with their online presence on the internet. Phone answering service is widely available for the doctors via medical call centers who are able to respond to their urgent medical needs and issues in a far better manner than ever before. Using phone answering service, doctors can address emergency medical problems that may arise all of a sudden by providing all the health information to the patients that may help save many patients lives from serious life-threatening dangers.

Phone answering service or telemedicine answering service is a great boon to the patients in critical times during the physical absence of the doctor. Medical consultation for the patients becomes much easier with the use of such communication devices that enable in reaching out to the doctors for any kind of advise needed on medication, dosage requirements or any other health issues. Phone answering service can assist the doctors in finding information about the patients from anywhere across different cities without the need of personally visiting the patients in case of minor health issues. Thus phone answering service saves a great deal of time and effort for both the patients and the doctors.

Home Health Care Products and Medical Supplies

Admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:59:56 +0000

Put an end to those unnecessary trips to the local pharmacy. At Southwest Medicals you can shop for health care products and medical supplies from the privacy of your own home. Your order is then delivered directly to your door. In addition, Southwest Medicals’ home health care products and medical supplies are a fraction of the cost of other medical supply retailers.

Health care products and medical supplies offer a wide variety of home health care products and medical supplies such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, braces, nutritional products, diabetes supplies, ostomy care supplies, blood pressure monitors, incontinence pants and pads, wound care products and bathroom safety items to name just a few.