Objective: The aim: To find out the peculiarities of constitutional and legal principles of the limits of permissible intervention in conducting biomedical research with human participation.
Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The methodological basis of the study was worldview dialectical, general scientific and specific scientific methods of learning the phenomena of state and legal reality. Common ones were widely used in the work principles of scientific knowledge - comprehensiveness, objectivity, historicism, unity of theory and practice and others.
Objective: The aim: To examine the effect of antireflux therapy on the course of COPD.
Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: Under observation were 60 patients who were hospitalized in the «Transcarpathian Regional Clinical Hospital named after Andrei Novak» with a diagnosis of COPD II gr B in combination with GERD and 36 patients diagnosed with GERD who were treated on an outpatient basis. To study the effectiveness of antireflux therapy and its impact on the course of COPD, patients are divided into 2 groups: 1 group (main) (n = 60) - patients with COPD in combination with GERD, group 2 (control) (n = 36) - patients with isolated GERD.
Objective: The aim: Was increase the effectiveness of treatment in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) comorbid with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by using ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in combination with ademethionine.
Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: Under observation was 98 patients with a diagnosis of NAFLD and COPD group II or their combination. Patients were divided into 3 groups: 1 (n = 36) - COPD + NASH - in addition to standard COPD therapy received UDCA 15 mg / kg / day - 6 months and ademethionine 1000 mg IV once a day for 10 days, followed by oral administration of 500 mg 2 times per day - 20 days, and group 2 (n = 32) - COPD + hepatic steatosis - in addition to standard therapy - UDCA 15 mg / kg / day - 6 months.
The article summarizes the data on the number of conversion therapy legal bans aimed at changing sexual orientation and gender identity in countries around the globe; the content and the form of such prohibitions, the scope of their action by territorial criterion and the nature of the prohibition itself are analyzed; the draft laws, which are intended to legalize such bans in the national and territorial regime are studied; the thematic case law of individual countries is partly examined; countries where conversion therapy is promoted and explicitly authorized by public authorities are considered. According to the results of the study of more than half a hundred legal documents, the information obtained is distributed and organized into the following categories: national and regional prohibition of conversion therapy, direct and non-direct prohibition of conversion therapy; ban in different parts of the world. The content highlights the characteristics of the existing prohibitions, such as the name of the delict; year of entry into force of the relevant legal act; prohibition of sexual orientation and/or gender identity activities; the circle of persons subjected to the prohibition; the circle of persons protected by the prohibition; peculiarities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe high prevalence and incidence of the chronic hepatitis C infection (CHC) is associated with the considerable medical and social problems, development of variety of clinical signs, hepatic and extrahepatic lesions. Due to the wide spread of this infection, there is a high comorbidity with other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially of its upper parts. The objective of the study was to evaluate the clinical and pathological features of mucosal lesions (ML) of the gastroduodenal zone (GDZ) and the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C with different body mass status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the article is to do a research on selected issues related to realizing the right for health сare for the children - internally dislocated persons. In order to achieve the given aim statistical data of the quantity of involuntarily dislocated persons including children and also the quantity of children registered with the health-care authority as well as the quantity of their requests for medical care have been analized. It has been determined that in case of involuntary dislocation children are more often exposed to trauma than adults which leads to different emotional disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe combined course of bronchial asthma (BA) and digestive system pathology is one of the most frequent, severe and clinically varied pathology. The purpose of the paper - to study the influence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) on the course of BA and the effectiveness of antireflux therapy in combined pathology. Patients with combined pathology were treated in full-time department more frequently than patients with isolated BA (3,4±0,5 per year to - 1,8±0,3; р<0,05).
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