[The biotropic weather conditions and changing the clocks as the extraneous risk factors of weather-dependent exacerbations of chronic diseases].

This paper reports the results of medico-meteorological investigations suggesting the influence of biotropic (unfavourabe) weather conditions characteristic of transient seasons in combination with the abolition of on the frequency of application for emergency medical aid. It was shown that the abolition of during the period from 2009 to 2013 resulted in a significant rise in the frequency of application for the emergency treatment of exacerbation of cardiovascular diseases. The sociological studies involving the responders of various social and age groups carried out parallel to the medical ones demonstrated that most of them (77%) considered the abolition of to be the main cause of the deteriorated of the sense of wellbeing and emphasized the necessity of winter time reversal.

[On the usefulness of including general biolong baths in the combined therapeutic and rehabiliatative treatment of the patients presenting with obstructive diseases of the respiratory organs].

Bearing in mind the important role of oxidative stress and intensification of lipid peroxidation processes in the development and progression of obstructive pathology of the respiratory organs, we deemed it appropriate to evaluate the therapeutic effect of general baths containing biolong, an agent showing the antihypoxic and antioxidative properties. The clinical and functional studies that involved 109 patients (52 with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 57 with bronchial asthma (BA)) have demonstrated the advantages of application of the hydrotherapeutic modality in the patients with bronchial asthma. The therapeutic effect was due to degradation of the allergic inflammation processes, the well apparent decrease in the activity of lipid peroxidation processes, the improvement of humoral immunity, generalized reduction of bronchial obstruction, enhanced physical working capacity, and psychoemotional adaptation.

[Spa-based water procedures and complications in the course of their performance].

The scope of applications of spa-based water procedures have become considerably extended during the recent years; accordingly, the frequency of complications and accidents has increased. The present review considers the possible mechanisms underlying such complications and various factors promoting their development, such as the patients' age and chronic diseases, the use of pharmaceutical products affecting thermoregulation and cardiovascular function. Special attention is given to the influence of alcohol consumption on the frequency of complications, accidents, and sudden death associated with hyperthermal procedures, the possibility of infectious diseases and measures necessary for their prevention.

[State-of-the-art corrective and diagnostic technologies in medical rehabilitation of patients with vegetative vascular dystonia].

Including of balneological therapy with the use of the baths Bi-olong in the programs of medical rehabilitation makes possible to improve considerable the state of peripheral haemodynamics, the indices of adaptation and regulation in patients with vegetative vascular dystonia. This fact can be explained with the positive corrective effect of bath Biolong reactant mitophen on cell respiration by the system cytochrome P450 activation. Also it is possible to assume that mitophen leads to decrease imbalance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems participating in regulation and adaptation of vascular wall.