Biomedical subjects

A G T Cozma

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[Psychological, social and medical items used to assess health status of patient with osteoarthritis].

One of the characteristic of the modern world is the continuum increase of the elderly people, and subsequently the increase of pathology related to ageing. Among the most common health problems, related to age increase, is joint related pathology, mainly arthritis. Assessing life quality of the patients with arthritis is using the hypothesis that their health status, depends on the patients ability to take decisions and to implement the decisions taken. The new concept, introduced by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), in order to evaluate life quality of the patients with arthritis, is that of the "healthy ill person". This concept reconsiders "health" and "illness" as opposites, and does appreciate that "health" and "illness" are both part of a continuum. The standardized tool used to appreciate the life quality of the patients with chronic illnesses is the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). The authors did apply the Romanian version of the NHP to 50 patients with arthritis registered in the Rheumatology Out-Patients Clinic, no. 1, Iasi. The results analysis demonstrated that the NHP questionnaire is a valuable tool able to assess health status of patients with arthritis. The NHP is worthy to use also for clinical monitoring of the patients with arthritis. An interesting analysis result is that the duration of the illness does not correlate with the self-perception of the degree of severity of the arthritis. The most specific scales are those related to Pain and Mobility.

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[New trends in contraception].

Since the beginning of the world, humans are trying to find methods to allow the control of their fertility. Up to the present, more than a hundred methods of contraception were developed, most of them being derivatives from the first hormonal used methods. The reality of the modern world has imposed the necessity of focusing the research in this field in order to develop the "ideal contraceptive". There are three main areas of research, with already encouraging results: various combinations of hormonal and barrier methods, the contraceptive vaccines, and the systemic methods for men. This article presents a synthesis of the latest contraceptive technologies available on the market, and the main areas of research in this field, separated by gender.

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[Current issues regarding organic food].

Destruction and pollution of soil and ground water resources is probably the most important ecological problem facing the next generation. Checkable standards which certify healthy food products are required by the regulation on organic farming of the EU and should also be applied for conventional food production. Ecological food contains at least 95% of ingredients from an organic farming environment, without interference from pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or other chemicals and it is totally different from dietary, functional, enriched, fortified, probiotic food. Ecological food is tastier and contains more essential amino-acids, vitamin C, and micro-nutriments than usual food. Two major effects generated by choosing ecological food are the environmental protection and human' health improvement. Buying an ecological product represents the effect of a certain attitude. Children's nutrition starts with the most genuine ecological product: breast milk. Every parent should give to his child healthy and tasty food, for proper development. Decreasing artificial chemicals in the diet and the environment represents the first step to a healthier life.

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