Volume 40, Issue 9, 2004

Contents

EDITORIAL

Ten-year anniversary of the Faculty of Public Health of Kaunas University of Medicine
Vilius Grabauskas
823 - 824

REVIEWS

Values and goals of medicine and health care
Irayda Jakušovaitė, Žilvinas Darulis
825 - 832

Drug addiction maintenance treatment and quality of life measurements
Giedrius Vanagas, Žilvinas Padaiga, Emilis Subata
833 - 841

Parathyroid hormone – possible future drug for orthopedic surgery
Ramunė Aleksynienė, Ivan Hvid
842 - 849

CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS

Alterations of platelet aggregation while treating cardiac arrhythmias with radiofrequency ablation
Vilma Kozlovaitė, Pranas Grybauskas, Jūratė Cimbolaitytė, Aušra Mongirdienė, Aras Puodžiukynas, Vytautas Šileikis, Tomas Kazakevičius, Vytautas Zabiela
850 - 855

Closed tympanoplasty in middle ear cholesteatoma surgery
Eugenijus Lesinskas, Vija Vainutienė
856 - 859

CLINICAL CASE REPORTS

Didžiosios taukinės lipoma diagnozuota vaikui
Vidmantas Barauskas, Dalius Malcius, Violeta Jazdauskienė
860 - 863

Microvillous inclusion disease
Rūta Kučinskienė, Dainius Jančiauskas, Antanas Pužas, Kęstutis Adamonis
864 - 867

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION

Experimental evidence on possibility to radiosensitize aggressive tumors by porphyrins
Živilė Lukšienė
868 - 874

PUBLIC HEALTH

Health inequalities in Lithuania: education and nutrition habits
Vilius Grabauskas, Janina Petkevičienė, Vilma Kriaučionienė, Jūratė Klumbienė
875 - 883

Changes in health behavior of Lithuanian adolescents and adults over 1994–2002
Vilius Grabauskas, Apolinaras Zaborskis, Jūratė Klumbienė, Janina Petkevičienė, Nida Žemaitienė
884 - 890

Importance of the modern health management for the success of health reform in Lithuania
Ramunė Kalėdienė
891 - 896

Occupational health problems in modern work environment
Rūta Ustinavičienė, Vytautas Obelenis, Darius Ereminas
897 - 904

Methods of suicides in Lithuania and their associations with demographic factors
Jadvyga Petrauskienė, Ramunė Kalėdienė, Skirmantė Starkuvienė
905 - 911

HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND DEVELOPMENT

150th birth anniversary of Izidor Brennsohn, Latvian historian of medicine and researcher of Lithuanian anthropology
Aurimas Andriušis, Arnis Viksna
912 - 916

CONTINUING  MEDICAL  EDUCATION

Conservative ways to treat cancer pain
Dalia Skorupskienė
917 - 923