BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common and often severe problem in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The authors postulated that physical activity training can reduce the intensity of fatigue in this group of patients. METHODS A group of cancer patients receiving high dose chemotherapy followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (training group; n = 27) followed an exerci...

BACKGROUND Disease susceptibility and drug response of individuals are presumed to be different depending on their personality traits. The Sasang typology, a traditional Korean medical typology, explains the individual differences of vulnerability to pathology and proposes guidelines for the safe and effective use of medical herbs depending on individual traits. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the p...

Human grows and develops in environment. Social environment give lots of impact shaping life’s aspects, especially social- psychologic aspect. One adolescent development task which is the hardest related to social adjustment. Adolescent’s life marked by prominence intellectual emotional’s fungctions. Factors impacting such as family, maturity, economic status, education, mental capacity

The latest data on the impact of novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) female and male reproductive health are reviewed. Pathological changes in organs tissues human reproduction system after COVID-19 as well recommendations for rehabilitation couples planning pregnancy discussed. Moreover, issues resulting from altered psychologic status women were highlighted well.

We have shown previously that the administration of morphine (0.8 mg/kg) to patients with COPD increases the VO2max by 19.3 percent. A recent study demonstrated that the administration of low-dose nebulized morphine (approximately 2 mg) increased the endurance time of patients with severe lung disease by 1 min (35 percent) with few systemic side effects. This double-blind crossover study evalua...

In many parts of the world, people are becoming increasingly aware of the major problem of sexual and physical abuse. Population estimates of selfreported sexual abuse range from 7% to 22% for childhood abuse and from 13% to 25% for lifetime abuse. An additional 10% of women report serious physical abuse, and an association between sexual and physical abuse has been reported. Women are abused m...

Andropause, a syndrome in aging men, consists of physical, sexual, and psychologic symptoms that include weakness, fatigue, reduced muscle and bone mass, impaired hematopoiesis, oligospermia, sexual dysfunction, depression, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, memory impairment, and reduced cognitive function. Free testosterone levels begin to decline at a rate of 1% per year after age 40 years. It...

Public speaking is a widely requested professional skill, and at the same time an activity that causes one of the most common adult phobias (Miller and Stone, 2009). It is also known that the study of stress under laboratory conditions, as it is most commonly done, may provide only limited ecological validity (Wilhelm and Grossman, 2010). Previously, we introduced an inter-disciplinary methodol...