Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been discussed widely and extensively because of its severity and to date not a single drug has been reported to be effective for this disease. In Asia approximate 90 percent of the cause are adult and almost half of them are female. According to WHO estimation, up to mid-1995 there are 20 million cases of HIV as Africa, Asia and South America and t…
It has been printed out many times that sampling is very important in describing a population, even using a quota sampling technique is not adequate to draw a conclusion on the situation. To obtain result which may represent a population a technique such as probability sampling has to be used. In this technique each sample unit taken from the population has an equal chance and probability to be…
Artificial sweeteners are food addictives which do not have nutrition value and are usually added to give a sweet taste to food or drinks. The use of artificial with the progress of food and drink productions. However, the dangerrous effects of their exessive use are not widely understood because of the lack of information given to the consumers. There are two types of sweeteners, (i) nutritive…
Thyroid is an endocrine gland lies in the neck region and produces thyroxine hormon which regulates the body metabolism. Function disorder, malignancy and lack of iodine consumption may cause anatomical changes of the gland since many medical interventions, whether it is a surgery to remove an abnormality or a drug treatment directed towards the gland, involves the structure of the gland. Blood…
Psychiatric emergency is different from other emergencies in the medical field because it involves other people and their surroundings and it can endanger the patient himself. Generally, patient with psychiatric emergency tend to commit suicide and to be excited. The first thing to do is to be able to diagnose the cases and treat them according to their etiologies. Patients with acute intoxicat…
A five years (January 1991 through December 1995) study on teenager pregnancy which occured in 15 to 19 years-old adolescents has been conducted in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung. During the period we found 125 cases of teenage pregnancy or 0.76 percent of the total labor assisted. Fifty-four (43.6 percent) of the cases were with anemia, 28 (21.4 percent) had preeclampsia/eclampsia and 10 case…
Antithyroid drug is a group of drugs which has a direct inhibitive effect on thyroid hormon synthesis. Some of them have been used widely to control hiperthyrodism for a short as well as for a longer period of time. Clinically antithyroid is given to patients while waiting for the remission of their hyperthyroidism; it is also used in combination with radioactive iodine, or in preparing a patie…