[The organizational aspects of early diagnostic of metabolic syndrome on the basis of implementation of new genetic, cellular and bio-informational technologies].

The characteristic feature of molecular medicine as medicine based on molecular structure of human genome data, is its individual character. It is focused on correcting pathological process in specific individual considering unique characteristics of its genome. The other most important feature is its expressed preventive direction.

[Specific Features of the Course of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with Newly Developed Atrial Fibrillation in Clinical Practice According to the Data of the Register of Acute Coronary Syndrome].

Aim: to elucidate risk factors of development of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and to assess of patient's adherence to oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) during 12 months after ACS episode according to the data of the Total ACS Registry for the Krasnodar Territory.

Materials And Methods: In this retrospective analysis we used Registry data on patients with ACS and concomitant AF, consecutively admitted to cardiological departments of the S.V.

The identification of benefit in medical intervention: an overview and suggestions for process.

Benefit and risk assessments are not only important to regulatory authorities but also important to the providers, patients, pharmaceutical industry, and payers. In order for patients and providers to continue to have access to new innovative medicines, which have some level of inherent risk, it is critical to have a systematic and balanced focus on understanding the safety risks and benefits to the patient during drug development, at the time of approval and postmarketing. There has been a significant amount of activity around efforts to improve the ability to assess risks in the postmarketing environment.

Hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides infection and polyparasitism associated with poor cognitive performance in Brazilian schoolchildren.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between hookworm and Ascaris lumbricoides infection and performance on three subsets of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - third edition (WISC-III) (Digit Span, Arithmetic and Coding) and Raven Colored Progressive Matrices.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of 210 children between the ages of 6 and 11 years in Americaninhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Separate proportional odds models were used to measure the association between the intensity of helminth infections and poor performance on each of the four cognitive tests.

Recent progress in integrated neglected tropical disease control.

Three years have passed since the publication of the first of a series of policy papers, which first highlighted the under-appreciated global burden of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and then outlined a rationale for linking vertical control strategies for the seven most prevalent NTDs in a cost-effective pro-poor package of preventive chemotherapy. Since then, global advocacy for these conditions has increased and, with it, new funds for scale-up of integrated NTD control in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent speeches by the Director General of the World Health Organization at regional meetings have referred to NTDs as important global health priorities (www.