Quality of life (QOL) in families can be affected when a child has cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this research was to determine the effect of a child’s disability on the mother’s quality of life by comparing mothers of children with CP and mothers of normal children. Two sample groups were chosen from a total of 42 mothers to answer a...

By Samira Borzoo, Mansoureh Nickbakht, Mehrdad Jalalian

The main issue in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) represents the impossibility of the host immune response to express bactericidal function and the sterilization of lesions depends exclusively on the specific antimicrobial chemotherapy. In order to investigate the value of acute-phase inflammatory response markers in patients with newly ...

By Milan Radović, Tatjana Pejčić, Ivana Stanković, Lidija Ristić, Milan Rančić, Zorica Ćirić

The study of features of pharmacodynamics of a new analgesic is an important and urgent task of modern pharmacology. These data allow us to clarify the nosology for application of an analgesic and to create a theoretical background to optimize its use. An effect mediated by the transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily V, member 1 (TRP...

By Oleh Yadlovskyi, Tatiana Bukhtiarova, Lyudmila Bobkova, Irina Tatianshenko, Igor Monchak, Andrew Khayrulin

Emergency hormonal contraception is used to prevent unintended pregnancy postcoitally. The mechanism of action of the most frequently used hormonal preparations for emergency contraception, levonorgestrel (LNG) and ulipristal acetate (UPA), is still not fully known, but clinical trials indicate that they act by inhibiting or delaying ovulation. LNG...

By Jelena Milosavljević, Katarina Ilić, Dušanka Krajnović

Osteoporosis is a chronic disease with increasing incidence that predominantly occurs in female population. There are evidences that bisphosphonates, selective estrogen receptor modulators, denosumab, teriparatide and strontium renalate, prevent vertebral fractures while alendronate, risedronate, zoledronic acid, denosumab and strontium renalate pr...

By Ivana Tadić, Ljiljana Tasić, Nada Vujašinović Stupar, Katarina Ilić, Dejan Stevanović

Symptoms of bladder dysfunction are significant public health problem due to their prevalence, morbidity and treatment costs. Most stem from bladder control problem which is governed by the brain, yet we know little about CNS and bladder. Advances in brain imaging technology have brought new insight in how brain works in different bladder diseases ...

By Staša Tadić

Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide about it. It is directly conditioned by social, cultural and behavior factors. One in every five people in the world is an adolescent, and 85% of them live in developing countr...

By Olivera Radulović, Slađana Babić, Milena Veljković, Ana Stefanović, Čedomir Šagrić, Katarina Bulatović

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and carries the poorest prognosis despite aggressive multimodal therapy. The majority of GBMs develop de novo (primary) with a short clinical history, while secondary GBMs develop through progression from preexisting lowergrade precursor gliomas and show distin...

By Irena Dimov, Desanka Tasić, Ivan Stefanović, Dragan Dimov

Cervical cancer is the third most common malignant neoplasm in women. It is also the fourth cause of death in women amongst malignant neoplasms in the Toplica District. The aim of the paper was to show the most important epidemiological characteristics of cervical cancer and to analyze its incidence and mortality trends during the period 1999-2012....

By Mirko Ilić, Biljana Kocić, Nataša Rančić

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important worldwide public health problem and stroke represents a continuously evolving medical and social problem. Renal dysfunction carries a substantial risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, the risk increases with a decline in kidney function. In the last 15 years the link between CKD and cerebrovas...

By Radovan Hojs, Tanja Hojs Fabjan