What is Fatty Liver?
Fatty liver is otherwise called as the fatty liver disease (FLD). This is a reversible condition which is caused by the triglyceride fat accumulation in liver cells. It is seen world wide and it has multiple causes which mainly includes excessive alcohol intake.
Progressive inflammation of the liver occurs in accumulation of fat and it is called steatohepatitis. Contribution of this condition by alcohol is called alcoholic steatosis. Fatty liver is commonly caused either by alcohol or metabolic diseases (ex.diabetes, obesity) and other causes include nutritional, …

Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which the long term and high dosage of the reputed pain killer Vioxx causes heart ailments like heart attacks and strokes.
This victorious study was conducted by a team of researchers from University of California and Davis and Peking University, China. This study would make the way for a safer drug for the numerous patients suffer from arthritic pain.
They used the metabolomic profiling to analyze rodent plasma and they confidently discovered that this drug when used in higher doses and long time made the way …

The vaccine camp for Swine flu inaugurated at King Institute, Guindy, Chennai on Monday. Health Minister of Tamil Nadu participated in the inauguration ceremony.
Two vaccines made in India itself were introduced, one is called the Nasovac, in the form of nasal drops and its cost is Rs.150. And another one is called Vaxiflu administered in the form of injections costing Rs. 250. A total of 300 vaccines were administered during the day.
It is informed that a BSNL toll free number would soon be provided for registration of appointments for …

The German court convicted the pop singer Nadja Benaissa, for having knowlingly exposed HIV virus to two men through unprotected sex.
Nadja Benaissa, aged 28, the German girl is a pop singer was given a two-year suspended sentence and she is punishable up to 10 years imprisonment according to law. But this lenient punishment was given to her on the basis that she confessed the guilty and promised before the court not to indulge in this type of offence in the future.
Benaissa appeared before the Darmstadt court in West …

We understand from CDC report that H1N1 virus otherwise called the swine flu virus since it was learnt from the laboratory studies that this virus was having the many genes that normally very similar to those of the influenza viruses that belongs to viruses of the pigs in North America. But later studies confirmed that this swine flu virus turned out to be the virus having different genes from pig, bird and human influenza viruses.
It has become in practice that both the swine flu virus (H1N1) and the …

Gallstones are otherwise called as Cholelithiasis. Gall stones are looking like pebble-like materials. The gall stones are developing in the gall bladder. The gall bladder is situated in the right upper abdomen and it is a pear-shaped sac below the liver. Bile contains so many things and they are namely water, fats, bile salts, cholesterol, bilirubin and proteins. Gall stones are formed when the liquid bile contains more cholesterol or bilirubin and it forms in to gall stones when the cholesterol or bilirubin harden. The size of the gall stones …