In the UK, with the participation of scientists from the Institute of Genetics of Spain has been born the world’s first genetically modeled child. 27-year-old woman gave birth to a girl who lacks a gene mutation that can lead to later development of breast cancer. According to the doctor Paul Serhala, mother and baby feel good: “This family got what is cancer, for many generations. She was very concerned about the possibility of occurrence and a child of this deadly disease. Then they decided from the beginning to hold some tests of the state of the embryo, a group of cells and select those that do not bear any genetic abnormalities.”

The carrier of “bad” gene is the father of the girl. As a result of a successful operation the child is no longer at risk of falling ill breast cancer suffered by her grandmother, cousin, mother and sister, father, when they got over the 20 years of age. The threat of disease in a child’s family, according to experts, is 80%, and sex of a newborn does not matter. Only in the UK the are about 37 thousand women who carry the gene of breast cancer, almost twice as much – in Spain.

The girl developed by scientists selected from an embryo, an analysis of which showed the absence of the gene, with which the risk of terrible disease ranges from 50% to 85%.

Meanwhile, with the challenge to provide a gene that can suppress the growth of cancerous tumors, the world’s medicine is busy is not the first year. And in this respect there is considerable progress.

Thus, the opening of the genes responsible for the development of breast cancer belongs to the European oncology. The first successes in this field were made back in 80 years of the last century, when succeeded to identify two “defective” genes. But these days scientists from Iceland have announced the opening of a new gene called BARD1. In combination with already known genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, it greatly increases the likelihood of developing breast cancer. This disease is diagnosed annually at a 1.2 million women in the world and leads to death of 400 thousand patients.

“Cancer” gene has been successfully identified by American doctors also. On their point of view, this gene is also responsible for the aging of our body, and we should not consider it as our enemy. With age “gene age” gradually reduces the ability of stem cells to divide, leading to, ultimately, aging and death of the organism. However, whether this is a bad thing?

“I do not think that aging – this is a random process: rather, it is a program to prevent cancer,” – states one of the leading participants in the research project Dr. Norman Sharpless of the University of South Carolina.

The study, which is the result of many years of work of three research teams from the University of South Carolina, the University of Michigan and Harvard School of Medicine, focused on studying the properties of a gene called p16-Ink4a, which plays a crucial role in shaping anti cancerous protection of the organism.

We know that with age the development of one of the proteins that make up the gene is significantly increased and the 70-year-old man it is produced ten times more than the 20-year-old. Why?

Scientists interested in the impact that the deactivation of the gene will have on the three groups of cells: stem cells of blood, brain cells and pancreas cells which produce insulin. Experiments on mice showed: disabling the gene leads to a sharp increasing of the ability to cell division of all three types. In other words, they were like forever young.

But laboratory rodents have been totally vulnerable to cancer – they all died of cancer in the first year of life. Increasing the activity of the gene p16-Ink4a, conversely, causes the aging of stem cells and the gradual loss of their ability to reproduce. But the risk of falling ill with cancer is significantly reduced. So the adage “getting old is no fun” is true only in part.

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You must have heard at least once as cholesterol being referred to in two separate parts: good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. However, did you ever take the time to find out why and what is the difference between the two, because most people do not, and this is in fact one of the most important things in regards to the human health that anyone could know.

What is Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is an important substance in our body, which is found in our blood stream and cells. The body needs cholesterol in order for it to be able to function well, and as well it contributes to number hormones and produces cell membrane.

The good cholesterol is also known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL) because the same carries it in our blood stream. The reason this cholesterol is considered good is because it protects our heart from a stroke or any other such diseases. The right level for good cholesterol is a minimum of 40mg/dL or more.

Bad cholesterol, which is also known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is bad because a high number of the same can clog in the arteries thus, provoking a heat attack or any other heart related diseases. The normal level of bad cholesterol is 200mg/dL or less in order not to pose a risk of any heart problems.

How you can Control and Lower Bad Cholesterol

If you already have high levels of the bad cholesterol then the best thing to do is consult your doctor about an efficient drug that will help you lower it gradually. There are many cholesterol drugs that are available over the counter and many natural remedies as well. However, it is strongly suggested that you do not self medicate as some of the cholesterol drugs have serious side effects, which only your doctor can point out as he is familiar with your medical history and conditions.

If you have normal levels of good and bad cholesterol all you may want to do is ensure that you stay that way and you can do that by taking the following steps: eating healthy and exercising. Eating healthy includes food items that are low in saturated and trans fat as well as cholesterol.

Get in the habit of reading your food labels as they all have to provide all the above mentioned data by law and therefore it is easy for you to choose which food items are good and which are harmful for your health.

The food items that contain high levels of cholesterol are: egg yolks, poultry, meat, shellfish, butter and cheese.

Take a minute and learn about your good and bad cholesterol levels, monitor closely your food intake and that of your family making them aware as well of the importance of staying below the limits of the bad cholesterol. A few minutes of self-education can save your life or one of your family member’s.

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A continually growing cyst in a woman who has been on oral contraceptives for at least several months should be investigated to rule out tumor. Because women on oral contraceptives should not ovulate, they should not develop functional cysts, therefore we’re going to be looking at other types of cysts – the endometriomas, the cystadenomas, the dermoid cysts, occasionally polycystic ovaries, and rarely the cancerous cysts.

Another thing, intrauterine devices, so things like Marina by Berlex, the old Copper Sevens, various intrauterine devices which are pieces of plastic, plastic and metal, plastic and metal secreting hormone, put into the uterus which through a complex mechanism causes no – basically causes no conception. And these are not – and I repeat are not associated with any increase in cysts, any increase in tumors. There absolutely is – it’s a non-event. Some women have a problem with intrauterine devices causing pain, and I don’t doubt that.

I’ve had to remove many of them, because the uterus contracts and it can cause pain. It doesnt have to be right in the middle, can cause a right side, left side, but it is not causing a pathologic problem, something that’s going to develop into something. I’ve noticed some of your questions here, and I think some of these are important to hit on as part of this. And one question by one of your listeners was, am I able to have children if I have ovarian cysts? Absolutely, there’s no decrease in fertility if you have a diagnosis of ovarian cysts.

The only case would be again, the endometriomas which are going to be – which is endometriosis in the wrong place if it’s associated with infertility. We can treat that, we can treat it with medication, reverse that process, and start the ovulation. The other case would be polycystic ovaries. These are not usually large cysts, but again the polycystic ovaries are associated with infertility.

Again, treatable, and in fact in cases where just diet is not going to reverse if there are certain drugs that can cause ovulation, or you can take Clomiphene, Clomid, it causes one to ovulate.

It can break that vicious cycle of not ovulating, and oftentimes it’s very effective. Pregnancy usually does occur, and in rare cases there are certain surgical procedures on the ovary, very simple, that can stop the polycystic ovary disease symptom of not having periods. So that’s reversible.

So how hard is it to get pregnant with a cyst? It’s easy. I mean you better have a cyst or you probably are pregnant because you’re going to have to have a follicular cyst, although you might not see it.

A large cyst, some of these other cysts as we said can prevent pregnancy, but once they’re removed or taken care of, it’s not going to affect fertility, it’s not going to affect a pregnancy outcome. You can have normal periods after a cyst. The only time your periods are usually abnormal is with endometriomas or polycystic ovary disease which we’ve talked about, and can be rectified. One woman notes that she had a cyst on her left ovary and she’s 12 weeks pregnant, and wanted to know if this will affect the unborn child.

Dr Christopher Freville ponders upon the question she has given us a little bit of information. We already know from our discussion, what have we learned today, that cysts on an ovary are common. In fact they’re often necessary because the corpus luteum cyst of pregnancy is a functioning cyst necessary for the pregnancy and will not affect the unborn child at all.

If it was a cyst – and sometimes I might add that cysts show up during pregnancy that dont go away. What do we do about those? Well, we have a large cyst that shows up on exam, or shows up on ultrasound that does not go away, then it is mandatory that this woman have operative intervention, have a laparotomy.

Laparotomies do not cause an increase in miscarriages, do not cause an increase – any child birth defects. It’s just unfortunate complication unrelated to the pregnancy, but just as women are going to develop any of these cysts, women pregnant can develop any of these cysts.

When they’re found they need to be taken care of because the persistent cysts during pregnancy – during delivery could cause a problem with the delivery, and we dont want that. So as soon as you find out something during pregnancy we take care of it.

Hillary Templeton gives advice to women of all types of ovarian cysts on her website. Click here for more information on ruptured ovarian cysts http://www.ovariancystshelp.com

First off let me say that if you have significant hip pain you should seek consultation from a licensed health professional. Okay now that that’s out of the way let’s talk a little about why you might feel pain in the front of your hip during abs exercises.

The muscles that are in the front of the hip are the hip flexors. The hip flexors bend the hip and attach to the pelvis and lower back. In addition to playing a role in lower back pain during ab exercises they also play a role in hip problems.

Anytime you perform an abs exercises in which your legs are moving, your hip flexors will work and more pressure will be placed on the hip. In my experience I have met quite a few people who feel a popping or clicking in the front of their hip when doing ab exercises like leg raises, scissors, flutter kicks, sit ups, or even bicycle crunches. In my opinion there are 2 main things that can contribute to pain or clicking in the front of the hip during abs exercises.

First, tight (overactive) hip flexor muscles can potentially cause pain or clicking in the hip. Generally speaking people are sedentary and sitting around all day or at a desk tends to decrease the flexibility in the hip flexors.

Just think for a moment, you probably sit in the car or on public transportation on your way to work. Then, you sit at work for 8 or more hours. Then, you sit in the car on the way home. And, then many of us sit in front of the television.

All this sitting really affects the flexibility in the hips. When the hip flexors are tight and inflexible, they may click when you extend your leg.

Runners also tend to have tight hip flexors, and I have met many runners that have clicking and hip pain when they do certain abs exercises. So if you sit at work and run for exercise, chances are your hip flexors are too tight and inflexible.

A simple solution to this problem is to stretch the hip flexor muscles. Stretching the hip flexors is great for everyone, especially people with hip pain or lower back pain during ab workouts.

The second reason people might experience pain in the hips during ab workouts is weak abdominal muscles. This may be difficult to understand, but I’ll do my best to make it straight forward. When your abs are weak, your pelvis is less stable. When your pelvis is less stable, your hip is less stable.

Sometimes, clicking is a sign of instability. When your pelvis is unstable, your hip may pop or click when you move it during exercises like leg raises. A simple solution to this problem is to continually work on improving your overall core stability with exercises like the drawing in maneuver, bridges, the plank, and reverse crunches.

If you have felt hip pain or clicking in the front of your hips during your ab workouts, try stretching your hip flexors before your workout. Also focus on overall core stability and overall flexibility.

In addition to focusing on overall flexibility, try avoiding the exercises that cause the most discomfort until you build up your body to be able to perform them correctly with no problems. Lastly, if simple stretching and strengthening does not improve your discomfort seek assistance from a licensed health professional.

Dr. Charles A. Inniss, Jr. is a Physical Therapist and Personal Trainer.

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A cyst can rupture be it a, most likely it’s a follicular cyst or a corpus luteum cyst. These are the so-called functional cysts, or the functional cyst with pregnancy. When they rupture generally nothing happens. In fact, there’s usually a pressure relief.

Because any distended cyst is often what gives, as a cysts nerves are increased by the distension, by the fluid, that’s often what causes the pain. The relief of the pain comes whenever it ruptures. Often like, unfortunately a ruptured appendix.

Sometimes when a patient feels an appendix ballooning up and brings him to the doctors the fact that the appendix becomes distended. Immediately after that there’s a rupture and they don’t feel the pain.

Unfortunately what causes the problems with ruptured cysts is if the cyst has a very rich blood supply and that blood supply, the arteries start pumping blood and don’t seal off and the abdomen can fill up with blood. And I’ve dealt with many cases both as an ectopic pregnancy, but the conditions usually much worse, but also, as a, rarely as a ruptured cyst that’s bleeding off a cystic pregnancy.

And often times the abdomen can literally become distended. In a severe case woman can go into shock meaning their blood pressure falls out, it’s an emergency, life threatening situation that if undiagnosed can be fatal. Fortunately, with emergency rooms being equipped the way they are, doctors being as smart as we are – we rarely miss this.

But once in a great while this is a complication. And when the cyst ruptures it doesn’t, you can usually preserve the ovary. Usually it can be sutured over, quarterized. The ovary stays in tact and even in a rare case if it had to be removed, again that does not affect fertility.

Generally if you have weight loss – unexplained weight loss is always a problem and should be looked into by a doctor. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s ovary cancer. But a benign cyst, a functional cyst, any of these cysts that we talked about with the exception of the cancerous cysts which are rare, will not be associated with a weight loss.

Obviously if we have pain or anxiety about a tumor or cyst often times that’s the cause of the weight loss. As far as weight gain, the weight gain is not because of a cyst. However, in the case of the polycystic ovary it’s a condition that’s sort of related. The cyst doesn’t cause the obesity but they seem to be related. And the reason for polycystic ovary disease is unknown.

Dr. Christopher Freville describes it as multi-factor but again one of the treatments I mentioned was to try to get the patient to lose weight and it often helps the other symptoms.

Some health pills such as Noni- Tahitian. Noni-Tahitian is the Indian mulberry Plant. It grows in the South Pacific and like a lot of the natural foods there’s a lot of claims around all of these. In fact Noni-Tahitian, this is just an example. One company called Morinda, Inc. was pretty well known.

It was 1998. Morinda, Inc. was investigated by the FDA – Federal Drug Administration, because they were actually labeling their Noni Tahitian, which I think is a drink. I’ve never had it myself. But they had all these claims, and the FDA said listen, we no longer – the FDA in this country will leave a company alone as long as it’s considered a food supplement, nutrition supplement. When you start making claims, as Morinda did, they said, “No you can’t do that.”

They did an extensive investigation and charged them $100,000.00 for that investigation, and had them cease and desist. So any type of health food that claims that they’re going to prevent cysts is unfortunately bogus. I will say while I’m on that, other things that are associated with cysts, women who take estrogens. This has always been a controversy since estrogens came out, and there’s so much data on estrogens.

Drugs like Climara, various forms of Estradiol, Premarin, they’re all various categories of the same type of drug, they’re estrogen supplements. Estrogens do not cause cysts. If anything, estrogens, especially those in birth control pills can decrease cysts. Which brings up a point if a woman on birth control pills, oral contraceptives, develops a cyst, that’s rare.

Hillary Templeton gives advice to women of all types of ovarian cysts on her website. Click here for more information on ruptured ovarian cysts http://www.ovariancystshelp.com

Generally if you have weight loss – unexplained weight loss is always a problem and should be looked into by a doctor. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s ovary cancer. But a benign cyst, a functional cyst, any of these cysts that we talked about with the exception of the cancerous cysts which are rare, will not be associated with a weight loss.

Obviously if we have pain or anxiety about a tumor or cyst often times that’s the cause of the weight loss. As far as weight gain, the weight gain is not because of a cyst. However, in the case of the polycystic ovary it’s a condition that’s sort of related.

The cyst doesn’t cause the obesity but they seem to be related. And the reason for polycystic ovary disease is unknown. It’s multi-factor but again one of the treatments I mentioned was to try to get the patient to loose weight and it often helps the other symptoms.

A lot of women have been sending in questions to obstetrician Christopher Freville in relation to their nutrition and can eating certain types of food or avoiding other types of food have a, any affects on the cysts within their ovaries?

Let’s talk nutrition and perhaps we should mention certain types of drugs and what drugs might have an effect.

First of all as far as possible let’s talk about food. Will nutrition help? Nutrition’s always good. Anybody that says good nutrition is not going to help the body is wrong. However, good nutrition per say is not going to resolve a cyst; is not going to prevent a cyst. Most of these cysts cannot be prevented because they’re functional or they’re the types of tumors or conditions that we’ve talked about and they’re totally unrelated to diet.

The only condition it might be able to help would be the polycystic ovary that’s associated with diabetes and obesity, and by proper nutrition, proper diet, eliminate the obesity, decrease the tendency toward diabetes and therefore, hopefully the other symptoms might resolve as well. That would be the only case, I say that nutrition is

Now there are, and I will mention one thing because you kindly provided me with a list of questions that you’ve received from various people. And one, some health food, and this is interesting. I call it health food; we’ll call it health pills. One was Noni- Tahitian. Noni-Tahitian is the Indian mulberry plant. It grows in the South Pacific and like a lot of the natural foods there’s a lot of claims around all of these. In fact Noni-Tahitian, this is just an example. One company called Morinda, Inc. was pretty well known. It was 1998.

And these can feel like a giant cystic mass, a giant sausage like soft balloon, but these are benign. But sometimes we don’t have a way of knowing until we actually get in at the time of surgery. Or, we actually can image it on ultrasound. And most of the time you’re going to go in and relieve that hydrosalpinx.

Tubal pregnancies – this is called an ectopic. Once in a while the pregnancy develops in the tube before it makes it down and these conditions are life threatening. Most of them are not, but in the process the tube can fill up with blood and before it ruptures. And this can also appear on ultrasound as a cyst and it can feel like a cyst.

Most of the time a pregnancy test will be positive, and when you combine that with the enlarged tube, well you’ve got your diagnosis and saved an emergency.

We’ve talked about endometriosis, that which can be a cyst. They’re rare types of colon tumors, most of these are solid bowel abscesses, can be sometimes diverticulosis, diverticulitis. You can have abscesses that can feel – most of these, well they can feel, or present like a cyst, and they’re going to be painful.

Most ovary cysts in and of themselves are not going to be causing a problem. And there are a couple of other conditions that can be mistaken for a pelvic tumor. They’re not cysts but I’m going to mention them; uterus fibroids or uterine myomas, and pelvic kidney’s. The kidney actually migrates during development.

A lot of strange stuff happens to us. We’re lucky that so many of us are normal. The pelvic kidney sometimes remains in the pelvis and can feel like a tumor until the proper tests are done to identify it as a kidney. So, during the work up process all these things are considered. But, the important thing here, is that cysts themselves, in and of themselves are not going to be a problem or life threatening problem.

Hillary Templeton gives advice to women of all types of ovarian cysts on her website. Click here for more information on ruptured ovarian cysts http://www.ovariancystshelp.com

Cancer is a fear that all women have. The answer, I’d say is no. This has been looked at pretty, pretty extensively.

There was a rather large study I think it was in Sweden. They looked at something like 90,000 – they’ve got a very sophisticated system of registry in Sweden where they can look at data. And something like ninety thousand women were paired with 90,000 normal ones and the various kinds of cysts, endometriomas, the functional cyst, the non-functional cyst. And they said ‘Well what’s the likelihood any of these women come back for ovary cancer?’ And there was no difference.

If you had an ovary cyst that was benign you had no increased incidence of having cancer later. The only difference in this was endometrioma which had a slight increase difference. And possibly the reason for that is something to do with estrogen sensitivity around the ovary. But again it’s, it was somewhat more common but is nothing to say My gosh, I’ve got endometrioma, by now I’ve got to have cancer. That should be the farthest thing from a persons mind.

The fact that one has a cyst it is not going to develop to, you do not have an increased cancer risk. Now certainly the cystadinomas it’s felt that some of these, these are the benign tumors. Can these cystadinomas develop into cystoadnocarsonoma? The answer is, yes probably. But, once you’ve removed it, the cystadinoma, as well as removing the dermoid cyst, which are very rarely cancer you’ve eliminated that risk.

If a woman is going to have a cancerous cyst it’s going to be there from a cancerous cyst per say. She most likely is over the age of fifty and their, in general the reproductive years do not have, a woman does not have to be concerned that a cyst is going to transgress, develop into a cancer.

There was something else I wanted to mention. I’m sure we’ve got several questions, yet I do want to go through these. I think that’s pretty much my overview on cysts and the various diagnoses of cysts, the types of cysts. The treatment we can summarize that at the end.

What happens when a cyst is likely to rupture?

This is probably the number one life threatening complication that New York OB/GYN Christopher Freville has to deal with on an almost basis. A cyst can rupture be it a, most likely it’s a follicular cyst or a corpus luteum cyst. These are the so-called functional cysts, or the functional cyst with pregnancy. When they rupture generally nothing happens. In fact, there’s usually a pressure relief.

Because any distended cyst is often what gives, as a cyst’s nerves are increased by the distension, by the fluid, that’s often what causes the pain. The relief of the pain comes whenever it ruptures. Often like, unfortunately a ruptured appendix. Sometimes when a patient feels an appendix ballooning up and brings him to the doctors the fact that the appendix becomes distended.

Immediately after that there’s a rupture and they don’t feel the pain. Unfortunately what causes the problems with ruptured cysts is if the cyst has a very rich blood supply and that blood supply, the arteries start pumping blood and don’t seal off and the abdomen can fill up with blood. And I’ve dealt with many cases both as an ectopic pregnancy, but the conditions usually much worse, but also, as a, rarely as a ruptured cyst that’s bleeding off a cystic pregnancy. And often times the abdomen can literally become distended.

In a severe case woman can go into shock meaning their blood pressure falls out, it’s an emergency, life threatening situation that if undiagnosed can be fatal.

Fortunately, with emergency rooms being equipped the way they are, doctors being as smart as we are – we rarely miss this. But once in a great while this is a complication. And when the cyst ruptures it doesn’t, you can usually preserve the ovary. Usually it can be sutured over, quarterized. The ovary stays in tact and even in a rare case if it had to be removed, again that does not affect fertility.

Hillary Templeton gives advice to women of all types of ovarian cysts on her website. Click here for more information on ruptured ovarian cysts http://www.ovariancystshelp.com