BACKGROUND Human skin properties have been used as an important diagnostic component in traditional medicine as they change with health conditions. Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM) puts emphasis on the recognition of the constitution-specific skin features prior to the diagnostic decision of health. In this work, in search of skin-characteristics effectively reflecting SCM features, we comp...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this review is to update and divulge the main constitutional risk factors involved in the etiopathology of prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bibliographic review of the scientific literature on the constitutional risk factors associated with prostate cancer between 1985 and 2010, obtained from MedLine, CancerLit, Science Citation Index and Embase. The search profi...

A political economic framework is used to describe an economy following transition to private ownership. The transition, characterized by massive privatization, is accompanied by a constitutional change, which is influenced by potential shareholders who may be described as the local entrepreneur, the corrupt entrepreneur, or the foreign entrepreneur. The constitutional changes influence the pri...

Barry Friedman's new book The Will of the People attempts to dissolve constitutional law's countermajoritarian difficulty by showing that, in practice, the Supreme Court does only what the public will tolerate. His account succeeds if "the countermajoritarian difficulty" refers to the threat that courts will run the country in ways that contravene majority preference, but not if the "the counte...

There is increasing evidence that for a number of patients, neutral alignment is not normal. Patients with so-called constitutional varus have been in varus alignment since the end of their growth. Restoring neutral alignment in these cases may not be the best option for these patients since it is abnormal to them. We recently performed a number of observational studies to find out how patients...

Although the Supreme Court’s 1989 decision in Teague v. Lane generally prohibits the application of new constitutional rules of criminal procedure in federal habeas review of state-court judgments, the Court’s 2008 decision in Danforth v. Minnesota frees state courts from Teague’s strictures. Danforth explicitly permits state courts to fashion their own rules governing the retroactive applicati...

Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the knowledge and understanding of biochemical disturbances involved on constitutional bone disorders. Recognition of the genetic background as the common cause of these diseases prompted the substitution of the term «constitutional» by «genetic», in referring to them. Understanding physiopathological bases by finding out the altered metabolic...

Today the prevailing view in child psychiatry is the biopsychosocial model of child development, but this was not always the case. Prior to World War II, and even in the post-war period, the environment was considered the major determinant of the child's development; the role of the child's constitutional characteristics was overlooked. The theory of temperament, formulated by the author and he...

BACKGROUND 47,XYY syndrome is a sex chromosomal abnormality observed in humans, with a prevalence of 0.1% of male births. Sex chromosome anomalies are more frequently associated with male infertility. CASE REPORT We present here four cases of infertile men with azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia attending a genetic and fertility clinic. Chromosomal analysis of the peripheral blood lymphocy...