Raluca Coman

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  I am Raluca and I’m a new member of the Metrolic team, the News Editor division. I’m very fond of yachting, reading and traveling and I prepare to take the exam that will allow me to drive boats. So wish me luck!

Top 10 Serious Drug Side Effects

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 25th 2010 | one comment

Most of the people have to take at some point in their life prescription drugs, which are drugs that can not be bought from the pharmacy without a written recipe from the doctor. Many of these drugs are not given without recipe because they have side effects which results from taking the drug. Most of the drugs have a list of common side effects: nausea and vomiting, allergic reactions, [...]

Drunkorexia=Anorexia+Alcoholism

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 23rd 2010 | one comment

College campuses have declared a Fat-Talk Free Week, a national campaign that is meant to fight anorexia and bulimia. The new trend over the last few years is drunkorexia which has been recently put in line with other eating disorders because the patient uses the same type of methods as anorexia and bulimia and adds alcohol to them. A drunkorexic is described as a person who restricts [...]

Fish Oil Supplements Help Avoid Premature Birth

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 22nd 2010 | no comments

Most of the future to be mums believe that taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy will help the baby to develop his brain and help them get over the birth depression more easy. But researchers say that this information is false based on the fact that cognitive and language scores of the children whose mothers took  fish oil supplements during pregnancy were identical to the ones [...]

Viagra Used In Young Boys To Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 22nd 2010 | no comments

Although Viagra is used for a totally different purpose and by a different age group, a new research in mice suggests that the drug might be useful  to minimize heart problems for young boys suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Viagra was approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction in 1998, but there are many other conditions that can be ameliorated by the use of the blue [...]

Top 10 Most Infectious Diseases

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 21st 2010 | no comments

There are a lot of diseases that can affect people, but it is the simple ones, which have no actual cure, but the immune system of the body to fight against them. Take the common cold for example. Scientists have tried for centuries to find a cure for it but they have not find a cure. There are more diseases without cure, like the ones that we use to call the “childhood diseases” [...]

October-Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 19th 2010 | no comments

October has been declared the Breast Cancer Awareness Month , and focuses on the disease that affects so many women all over the world. Early detection is the key to treat breast cancer so that the patient survives and there are a lot of technological means available now so that the disease can be diagnosed in its early stages. Dr. Jessie Jacob , the director of El Camino's breast [...]

Sight For The Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 19th 2010 | one comment

Researchers have discovered a method of giving some blind patients back their sight. The patients were suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and have been blind for a long period of time, some of them for more than 40 years. The researchers have implanted a chip in their retinas and at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology the German researchers have showed videos of [...]

Media Education In American Schools

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 19th 2010 | no comments

Pediatricians believe that it is now a priority to find out how much time children are using the TV, the video games, and other entertainment media. So, every time that a child visits them they will ask whether he has access to the internet in his bedroom and how many hours a day does he spend in front of the TV or of the computer. Dr. Victor C. Strasburger, of the University of New [...]

Future Test To Detect Brain Damage

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 18th 2010 | no comments

An Army research  says that there might be a new procedure which can help diagnose mild concussions easier than before. Doctors are pleased with the idea that one day there might be a test that would allow them to diagnose brain damage easier and without doing lots of complicated tests. But brain injury experts do not believe such a test can be developed easily so that everyone [...]

Whooping Cough Epidemics Not Close To An End

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 18th 2010 | no comments

The whooping cough epidemics continues in California where have already been found 5,658  confirmed  and suspected cases. Researchers are saying that this is the biggest epidemics since 1950, when 6,613 were recorded. Ten percent of the cases which were recorded in the hospital were also admitted to a health care clinic, and most of these cases occurred in infants younger than 6 [...]

A Positive HIV Test Staggers The Porn World

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 18th 2010 | no comments

A positive HIV test made on a porn actor has led the major American largest adult film companies to stop shooting and perform tests on the performer's on-screen sex partners. This incident brought again to the attention of the public the lack of the condom use from this industry and high risk for the actors to catch a sexually transmitted disease. Most of the 13 billion dollars porn [...]

Love Takes Away The Pain

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 16th 2010 | no comments

A Stanford study shows that high-octane romantic love acts like an analgesic, and the effect is not caused only by the fact that the patients takes his mind off the disease and the pain and thinks about the other person, but also by the fact that being in love activates the same dopamine-oriented centers of the brain which are set off by illegal drugs such as cocaine. The systems which [...]

Botox Injections To Treat Migraines

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 16th 2010 | one comment

Federal health authorities have approved the treatment using Botox injections for the treatment of chronic migraines. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the treatment which consists in Botox injecting every three months around the head and neck so that the patient will not feel the pain to an extent as high as before. The drug has been proved to be efficient only on the [...]

FDA Reccomends Not To Use Chelators

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 16th 2010 | no comments

Chelators  are substances used for treatments for autism, heart disease and other conditions, but they are illegal substances, which may prove to be very dangerous and are also illegal. These chemical substances help the removal of the metals from the body, but their ingestion carries serious risks like kidney damage dehydration and even death. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has [...]

Women That Use Antibiotics Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 15th 2010 | no comments

A study published recently in the Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Journal says that there has been noticed a slight increase in the risk of breast cancer among women who took antibiotics than in the women that never used this kind of medication. The authors of the study, based at the University of Athens in Athens, Greece, sais that they have found a link between the use of [...]

Weight Loss: More Protein, Less Carbs

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 15th 2010 | one comment

Most dieticians are experts when it comes to counting calories because when a person asks their advice on how to lose weight their job is to create a calorie deficit plan which has the purpose of making them eat less fat, less carbohydrates and less protein. But new information challenges the old method fashion of calorie counting because researchers have discovered that not only the [...]

Food Labels Do Not Always Give Correct Information

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 15th 2010 | no comments

Many of the labels from the processed food which can be bough in the supermarket have labels saying that they are healthy and natural. But what is written on the label is not always reflecting the truth, and most of the information is not clear. But now the government makes real efforts to come up with better and more consistent ways to label foods, so they put the Institute of [...]

Once-A-Month Shot To Treat Addiction

Posted in: Health by Raluca Coman | October 15th 2010 | no comments

The United States Food And Drug Administration has given its approval for a once-monthly injection to treat opioid dependence. The substance injected is vivitrol, which acts for a longer period of time and is based on naltrexone. This substance has already been given the approval for the monthly shot for the treatment of alcoholics, and this last action puts it on the list of the [...]