[Aspects of TB endemia in Romania and the response of the National Programme for Prevention, Surveillance and Control of Tuberculosis].

In Romania, tuberculosis is a major public health problem. Consistent with the remarkable improvement of success rate in bacteriological confirmed cases from 51% in 1995 to 85.8% in 2011, the global incidence of the disease fell from a maximum of 142.

Liquid crystalline phases and their dispersions in aqueous mixtures of glycerol monooleate and glyceryl monooleyl ether.

The aqueous phase behavior of mixtures of 1-glycerol monooleate (GMO) and its ether analogue, 1-glyceryl monooleyl ether (GME) has been investigated by a combination of polarized microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and NMR techniques. Three phase diagrams of the ternary GMO/GME/water system have been constructed at 25, 40, and 55 degrees C. The results demonstrate that the increasing amount of GME favors the formation of the reversed phases, evidenced by the transformation of the lamellar and bicontinuous cubic liquid crystalline phases of the binary GMO/water system into reversed micellar or reversed hexagonal phases.

Trends of mortality rates from gastric cancer and colorectal cancer in Romania, 1955-2003.

Background: Steady and persisting falls in gastric cancer (GC) mortality rates have been observed worldwide in the last 50 years, and in Romania too. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is presently the most frequent digestive neoplasia in the Western countries. An increase of CRC incidence and mortality rates has been reported recently in Eastern European countries, including Romania.