Introduction — The genetic alterations of most lung cancers are enormous. There are approximately 20,667 genes in the human genome comprised of over 3 billion base pairs. Smokers with lung adenocarcinoma have, on average, 8–10 mutations per 1 million bases (base pairs), which equates to over 50,000 single nucleotides [1]. The current…

Summary — Results of the standardized sociological telephone interview of 1200 people of the population of St. Petersburg (18 years and older) with use of the CATI system are presented. The goal of our study was to characterize the food status (anthropometrical indicators, a diet and a diet, the range of the…

Opinion — At the beginning of the 1980s, a series of very profound changes were initiated in the milk cow nutrition approaches, because of the highest levels of production per cow that were reached by the productive systems of the northern hemisphere. Nutrition is defined as the series of processes through which…

Abstract — Identifying High Cost High Need (HCHN) patients has been increasingly identified as important among healthcare stakeholders since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act prompted the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to require risk-adjusted payment methodologies. High risk patient identification was originally derived primarily from claims data. This has since evolved to…

Abstract — Background: A recent meta-analysis of staple line complications (SLC) in primary bariatric/metabolic procedures showed significantly lower (p<0.05) SLC rates for bovine pericardium (Peri-Strips Dry/Peri-Strips Dry with Veritas (PSD/PSD-V); Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield, IL) compared to biocompatible glycolide copolymer buttress (Seamguard; W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc, Flagstaff, AZ), suture reinforcement (oversewing), and…

Mini Review — A statement: A profound change knocks at the door! People’s reaction — condescending smiles and shout: We’ve all seen it, we all know it! But it is not true. A profound change is in fact at our door, if it has not already begun to enter the house and the…

Abstract — This study was to verify the influence of environment assumed elevation (FiO = 15.72% with the altitude 2500m) intermittently to change certain physiological functions, biochemical and body composition of male sprinters in this study. Twelve males were randomly divided into 2 groups, a hypoxia (H) group 2500m (n = 6…

Introduction — As our knowledge of human biology has grown, the newly found information has been leveraged to devise increasingly complicated treatments. This began with small molecule treatments that impact cell functions and has led to the rapidly maturing biologics space that largely aims to upregulate and downregulate those functions. This, in…

Abstract — Purpose of the review: HE4 has been recently studied in endometrial cancer, but no conclusive results have been obtained. The role of the marker to differentiate between benign pathology and cancer and its relationship with factors of poor prognosis in endometrial cancer has been studied in this review. Conclusions: Clinicians…