Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

The relevance of the study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be explained by the persistence of unfavorable dynamics of the disease, even despite the achieved success in the pharmacotherapy of this pathology. In 2016, World Health Organization (WHO) ranked COPD as the third leading cause of death worldwide, far exceeding the experts' predictions, who believed that such an increase in the death rate would occur by 2030. This study aimed to determine the level of senior medical students' knowledge in the management of patients with COPD, based on the method of anonymous questioning.

[The prospects for the creation of the National Center for Personalized Medicine of Endocrine Diseases].

The National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology (NMRCE) received the right to implement the development program of the World-class Research Centre "The National Center for personalized medicine of endocrine diseases" (NMCPMED). The objective of the NMCPMED will be not only the creation of a system of personalized treatment, but also the training of new specialists for medicine.  Fundamental researches, carried out on the basis of the already existing institutes and laboratories of the NMRCE will be expanded by creating new laboratories of the NCPMED created de novo in accordance with the approved project.

Acclimatization to Middle Attitude Hypoxia Masks the Symptoms of Experimental Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, but Does Not Affect Its Pathogenetic Mechanisms.

The effects of acclimatization to middle attitude hypoxia on the resistance to acute emotional stress were studied on the model of posttraumatic stress disorder in rats. Anxyolitic, but not anxiogenic effect was observed in acclimatized rats. However, acclimatized rats with posttraumatic stress disorder were characterized by hypofunction of the pituitary-adrenocortical axis, which is typical of this pathology, and reduction in corticosterone/dehydroepiandrosterone ratio.

Pharmacogenetic testing in population of South Ural.

Background: Drug resistance is a phenomenon that has received serious attention in recent years in everyday medical practice. This may also be described as responsiveness or non-responsiveness to drugs, as patients respond partially to medical treatment or have no response at all [1]. The non-responsiveness to clopidogrel in cardiac patients of different populations is due to genetic variations in the cytochrome P450 (CYP) gene [2].