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Modern cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy have proven remarkably effective at treating many cancers, especially in combination, but are plagued with toxic side effects. These treatments kill healthy cells as well as cancerous ones. Nanotechnology offers the means to aim therapies directly and selectively at cancerous cells.
Chemotherapy employs drugs that are known to kill cancer cells effectively. But these drugs kill healthy cells in addition to tumor cells, leading to adverse side effects such as hair-loss, nausea, neuropathy, fatigue, and compromised immune function.
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Washing hands is the most common thing that we do daily ever since our childhood and it seems like something that is so common that there is no need explaining how to do it right.
The truth is that about 70% of the people wash their hands incorrectly. Believe it or not, there is a correct method you should use if you want to reduce the germs (bacteria and viruses) on your hands. This is especially true as the winter cold and flu season approaches where improper hand washing can increase your chances of getting sick.
Amazingly, about 80% of infectious diseases are transmitted by touch. You’re at risk every time you touch your eyes, nose or mouth after the cold virus has gotten on your hands.
You should be washing your hands frequently to avoid the spread of germs. Wash your hands for 20 seconds to give your hands a good washing and enjoy the winter season instead of being stuck in bed sick.
Here are the 8 proper steps when washing your hands. Follow the below steps, and you’ll be fine.
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Nanotechnology has reached critical mass. Nowhere is this more evident than in medicine. Rising medical costs, demands for less-invasive procedures and pressures for immediate feedback of medical conditions, all point to nanotechnology as offering a new approach in healthcare.
When a person suffers from eye ailments today, nine times out of ten, he will be prescribed eye drops to treat his illness or relieve his discomfort. However, 95 percent of the medication administered in this manner flows to where it is not needed. Most eye medications are delivered by drops. The drops usually mix with tears and drain into the nasal cavity, where they can flow through the blood stream to other organs and cause serious side effects. In addition, dosage through eye drops is inconsistent and difficult to regulate, as most of the drugs are released in an initial burst of concentration.
To counter these problems, researchers have been studying the use of contact lenses to deliver eye medication.
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Nanotechnology is the creation of functional materials, devices and systems. Nanotechnology makes use of minuscule objects – whose width can be 10,000 times narrower than a human hair – known as nanoparticles. A scientific and technical revolution has just begun based upon the ability to systematically organize and manipulate matter at nanoscale.
An atom has a diameter of about 0.1 nm. An atom’s nucleus is much smaller – about 0.00001 nm. Atoms are the building blocks for all matter in our universe. You and everything around you are made of atoms. Nature has perfected the science of manufacturing matter molecularly. For instance, our bodies are assembled in a specific manner from millions of living cells. Cells are nature’s nanomachines. At the atomic scale, elements are at their most basic level. On the nanoscale, we can potentially put these atoms together to make almost anything.
You might be surprised to find out how many products on the market are already benefiting from nanotechnology. Upwards of 600 products on store shelves today contain them, including transparent sunscreen, lipsticks, anti-aging creams etc.
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Many breast cancer patients have low levels of vitamin D, which could lead to weaker bones and increased risk of fractures.
Vitamin D is essential to maintaining bone health, and women with breast cancer have accelerated bone loss due to the nature of hormone therapy and chemotherapy. It’s important for women and their doctors to work together to boost their vitamin D intake.
Peppone and colleagues studied 166 women undergoing treatment for breast cancer and found that nearly 70 percent had low levels of vitamin D in their blood. The average level among the women was 27 nanograms of vitamin D per milliliter of blood. Levels of 32 nanograms per milliliter are adequate, according to the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
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