Urinary incontinence among institutionalized elderly were analyzed from clinical and social viewpoints. The patient group included 25 males and 107 females with an average age of 78 years (ranged from 66 to 92). They had neither highly impaired performance status nor severe dementia. Forty-nine of them (37%) underwent urological examination. Urge incontinence was common among male patients, whi...

OBJECTIVE To assess prevalence and risk factors associated with drug abuse among public elementary and high school students in the southern city of Florianópolis, Brazil. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using a standardized questionnaire created during the 4th National Survey on Drug Abuse. Four hundred and seventy-eight students were interviewed by trained college...

HE MANAGEMENT of postoperative pain has T been and continues to be a significant problem in surgical practice in terms of both the additional stress it places on the patient’s physiologic reserves and the symptomatic discomfort it causes. It is well known by practitioners that pain is an individual experience and this fact is reflected in a wide variation in the incidence and severity of pain a...

Fatigue is one of the most important factors which has a considerable influence on treatment and the life quality of oncological patients. The fatigue syndrome is often diagnosed during cancer treatment and this syndrome is not related to the physical effort. Cancer related fatigue is a patient's subjective, psychologically, physically and emotionally based feeling. It is disproportionate to pa...

BACKGROUND DSM-IV criteria for illicit drug abuse and dependence are largely based on criteria developed for alcohol use disorders and there is a lack of research evidence on the psychometric properties of these symptoms when applied to illicit drugs. METHOD This study utilizes data on abuse/dependence criteria for cannabis, cocaine, stimulants, sedatives, tranquilizers, opiates, hallucinogen...

Depression and anxiety are quite common in the general population due to genetic causes and the stresses of modern life. In response, the therapeutic medications produced by the pharmaceutical industry, while powerful, have not proven adequate solutions, since many side effects are known to occur with prescription drugs. In the natural products industry, there have been few new offerings since ...

PURPOSE Social capital and social attachment theories of substance use argue that positive bonds to society and the conventional values they promote deter adolescents from substance use. Using nationally representative samples of U.S. high school seniors, we hypothesized that adolescents' community attachments, measured by social trust, social responsibility, and religiosity, would be negativel...

EFFECTS OF THERMAL CONDITIONING ON METABOLIC RESPONSES OF RATS TO ALTITUDE Roy B. Me$erd, Jr. and Henry B. Hale METABOLIC RESPONSES TO THERMAL STRESSORS OF ALTITUDE-ACCLIMATED RATS Henry B. Hale and Roy B. Mejerd, Jr. WHOLE BODY LIPID METABOLISM OF RATS AFTER CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTS Roy B. Mejerd, Jr., M. A. Nyman and W. W. Webster EFFECT OF LSD-25 ON BODY TEMPERATURE OF PIGEON...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a public health problem of alarming proportions, including among the university population in Latin America. The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between the self-reported body mass index and the associated drug use and health-risk behaviors. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional, descriptive study of 3,311 Chilean university students (17-24 years). T...

PURPOSE There is evidence to suggest a beneficial effect of physical activity on several mental disorders. METHODS The study aim was to assess the association between low physical activity during leisure time (or sedentary lifestyles) and the incidence of mental disorders in 10,381 participants, from a Spanish dynamic prospective cohort of university graduates followed up for 6 yr (the SUN st...