Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by a decrease in the density of bone, decreasing its strength and resulting in fragile bones. Osteoporosis literally leads to abnormally porous bone that is compressible, like a sponge. This disorder of the skeleton weakens the bone and results in frequent fractures (breaks) in the bones.

Backbone Illustration

Normal bone is composed of protein, collagen, and calcium all of which give bone its strength. Bones that are affected by osteoporosis can break (fracture) with relatively minor injury that normally would not cause a bone to fracture. The fracture can be either in the form of cracking (as in a hip fracture) or collapsing (as in a compression fracture of the vertebrae of the spine). The spine, hips, ribs, and wrists are common areas of bone fractures from osteoporosis although osteoporosis-related fractures can occur in almost any skeletal bone.

 Osteoporosis Illustration

Dengue Fever in Indonesia

Every year we are always surprised by the emergence of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), with a considerable number of cases. This resulted in a number of hospitals become overwhelmed in accepting the DHF patients. To overcome the hospitals to add beds in the halls of the hospital and recruit medical personnel and paramedics. The recurrence of dengue cases this causes a reaction from various circles. Some consider this to happen because of lack of public awareness of environmental cleanliness and partly because the government considers slow in anticipating and responding to this case.

In January to March 2004 total dengue cases in all provinces in Indonesia have reached 26.015, with as many as 389 people the number of deaths (CFR = 1.53%). Have the highest cases in Jakarta (11.534 persons) while the highest CFR is available at NTT (3.96%)
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Dengue Fever or Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a disease caused by dengue virus is transmitted through the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Both mosquito species have almost all corners of Indonesia, except in places a height of more than 1000 meters above sea level.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquito

Aedes Albopictus Mosquito