Spin-offs from blood pressure and heart rate studies for health care and space research.

Evidence here cited underlies resolutions at international meetings to initiate a chronobiology project for health improvement. This project demonstrates expeditiously the feasibility and the health benefits of incorporating chronomedical considerations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of one (or a few closely related) vascular (and oncological) diseases, that have high awareness and importance in the public perspective. Thereby, chronomedicine should become a mainstream basic and applied speciality leading to continual improvement in national/international health status. Reference data obtained for health care can also serve to give a better understanding of the relationship between the terrestrial biosphere and cosmoi near and far.

[Use of meropenem in the treatment of severe infections in newborns]. / Ispol'zovanie meropenema v lechenii tiazhelykh infektsii u novorozhdennykh detei.

Meropenem was used in the treatment of 15 newborns (8 preterm) with sepsis, pneumonia or meningitis by intravenous infusion of 15-20 mg/kg daily divided to 3 equal doses. Clinical improvement was achieved in all the cases. No side effects were recorded.

Resonance of about-weekly human heart rate rhythm with solar activity change.

In several human adults, certain solar activity rhythms may influence an about 7-day rhythm in heart rate. When no about-weekly feature was found in the rate of change in sunspot area, a measure of solar activity, the double amplitude of a circadian heart rate rhythm, approximated by the fit of a 7-day cosine curve, was lower, as was heart rate corresponds to about-weekly features in solar activity and/or relates to a sunspot cycle.