Luu Hoang with its yellow colour, spongy consistency, sour taste, toxicity, can infultrate inward through the medians of kidney and large bowel. Oral use of Luu Hoang can tossify the “fire”, assiste the “yang”. Topic use can detoxicate, kill the parasite, treat the pimples, Luu Hoang abates the itch in cases of scale, fungi on skin, eczema. Luu Hoang is used in the conditions of boil, the cold in kidney, coldish impaired “yang”, coldish secretion, difficulty in faces exerete and urinate. Oral use of 1-3 g in powder and pill, topic use with powder spreaded in the wound… are the most common methods. Counter indications are in the cases of impaired “iin”, exceeded “fire”, pregnancy, and incompatible with Phac Tieu
Medicine, Traditional ; Therapeutics ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

Fructose 1,6 bisphosphate adolase A and C (FPA A4 and C44) have been found to bind specifically to heparin in physiological ionic strength. The researcher found that activity of FPA was inhibited by heparin. The inhibition of FPA A4 and C4 depend on the degree of sulfation. Inhibition activity FPA of heparin increase directly proportional to molecule lenghth. Kinetic studies showed that: inhibitory mode of heparin on FPA was the linear mixed type inhibition, in which velocity can be driven to zero at high heparin concentration
Kinetics ; Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase ; Heparin

From June 2001 to June 2003, at HCM city Children Hospital N01 and Tien Giang General Hospital, 320 cases of Dengue hemorrhagy were studied prospectively. All cases were dignosed definitely by serology IgM-ELISA HI reaction. Logistic regression analysis showed the related factors for prolonging the dengue hemorrhagic fever shock: age 5-9 years old, fever episode, gastrointestinal hemorrhagy, liver failure, hypoglycemia, hyponatrimia, metabolic acidosis, blood coagulation disturbance, delay of diagnosis, no-accuracy treatment, no proper follow up, tremble with perfusion.
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ; child ; Disease ; Shock

Research on 1060 people who from 20 to 74 years old live in Hanoi. 47% of them was man and 53% was woman. Result: eating and drinking habit has importance effect to the development of diabetes disease. People who eat much fat, drink much beer and eat little vegetable have higher risk of suffering diabetes to use little fat, don’t drink beer and smoke tobacco, and eat more vegetable. People who live in city eat vegetable, fruit and smoke less than suburban but they drink beer much than suburban. Body activity has close relation to the disease condition
metabolism ; Nutrition Therapy ; Motor Activity

“Antiitchy B” tablets were processed from herbal medicines including prepared Rchmannia glutinosa, Angelica sinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, and Sophora flavescens, plus shells of Ostrea gigas and Ketotifen. Experimental study carried on mice with allergic contact dermatitis showed that “antiitchy B” tablets significantly inhibited dinitrofluobenzene induced allergic inflammation in mice ears epidermis
Medicine, Traditional ; Dermatitis, Allergic Contact ; Medicine, Herbal ; drugs

Iodine concentrations of water samples, vegetable samples and soil samples in Kien Thanh commune (KT) – Cho Moi district – An Giang province were compared with those of Duyen Ha commune (DH) – Thanh Tri district – Ha Noi city. Iodine intake of KT people was about 60 mg daily. 70.1% of urine samples had low iodine concentration. Iodine concentration in water, soil and vegetable in both communes were in the low range and had statistically significant differences. In ND, mean iodine concentration in the soil was lower than in DH (2.63530 mg/kg vs 3.0360 mg/kg). In the water iodine mean concentration was lower in KT than in DH (0.00127 mg/kg vs 0.00173 mg/kg) and in vegetable 0.96100 mg/kg vs 1.15770 mg/kg respectively
A More evidence confirming the state of iodine deficie

Endometriosis is composed of internal endometriosis (adenomyosis) and external endometriosis. External endometriosis is a condition where tissues similar to the lining of the endometrium and is also found in the places outside the uterus. Endometriosis is one of the most frequent diseases seen in gynecological practice. It affects women in the reproductive ages. We report three of external endometriosis, which have difficulties in diagnosis. Three these cases show clinical signs similar to cancer disease, leading to errous diagnosis. The diagnosis can only be confirmed by histological examination. We analyze clinical features and histopathology of these cases with purpose is to provide clinicians and practicing pathologists the understanding of endometriosis.
Endometriosis ; diagnosis

The obesity is growing in the Western Pacific Region. Currently, is have been not the major health problem in viet nam; however, the experts anticipated a rapid rise in prevalence in viet Nam during coming years, with high prevalence will be found in youngsters. The prevalence of obesity is highest in people aged 20 - 50 years. Women are more susceptible than men. The prevalence is increasing with the growth of the socioeconomic and different according to geographic, race and ethnic characteristics. Studies demonstrated that the criteria for obese classification applied for Europeans and Americans could not be used for Asians, especially for people from ASEAN countries. WHO introduced new criteria for this condition that can apply to this region since year 2000. To prevent effectively this condition, Viet Nam must implement active and appropriate measures right now.
Obesity ; Attitude

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FPA) was recently known as new member of heparin binding proteins and a new method for FPA purification has been proposed (Thanh Van Ta et all, J. Biochem. 125, 554-559,199) by measuring FPA - heparin binding inhibition caused by various glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), affinity of the two isoforms, aldolase A4 and C4, to the GAGs underphysiological ionic conditions was estimated. Among glycosaminoglycans employd, heparin was confirmed to be the unique one that could bind specifically these enzymes. In the lower ionic strength, the affinity order of both FPA isoforms (A4 and C4) to these GAGs appeared as heparin> chondroitin polysulfate> heparin sulfate > dermatan > chondrointin sulfate A > chondroin sulfate C. Employing the same techniques, the affinity of regioselectively desulfated heparins to FPA was estimated. Our results indicated that, among the sulfate groups is heparin, loss of N-sulfate group reduced most significantly the affinity to FPA A4 and C4. This sugests that FPA recognizes a specific heparin structure including the sulfo-amino group at C2 of the glucosamine residue as the vital factor in this interaction.
Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase ; Glycosaminoglycans

A lung function test on 452 school children (239 male; 213 female) from 7-15 years old, at 3 primary schools and secondary schools showed that: The relative figures of each age group were established. The value of lung function test increased with age. In the group with empyema (32 cases) the values of lung function test decreased. But the values of lung function test become nearly normal after 6 months of discharge
Ventilation ; Empyema ; child