Diabetes insipidus is a rare disease (approximately 3 cases per 100,000) associated with dysfunction of the hypothalamus or pituitary gland, which is characterized by polyuria (discharge of 6–15 liters of urine per day) and polydipsia (extreme thirst). Diabetes insipidus is a chronic disease that occurs in people of both sexes in both adults and children. Most often people of young age — from 18 to 25 years old — get sick. It is relatively rare. Timely diagnosis of this disease depends on the primary care physicians and their knowledge of this pathology.

The functioning of any team often depends on how effective a manager’s work is, how he or she can built a team and set priorities, how consistent he or she is in making decisions and performing tasks, and healthcare institution is not an exception. The traditional approach to healthcare management involves the separation of medical and administrative tasks: doctors and nurses work with patients, and administrative staff is responsible for managing the work of health care institutions. At the same time, the activities of all employees of medical institutions — both medical and administrative personnel — should be aimed at achieving a common goal: providing health care by complying with the most stringent quality standards and efficient using of resources. Therefore, the head of a healthcare institution should be not just an experienced manager, but a competent health professional, who is well acquainted with medical care protocols, algorithms and standards for diagnostic and treatment procedures, the basic concepts of ethics and deontology.

Diabetic foot syndrome is a complex of anatomical and functional changes that develop on the background of diabetic neuropathy, micro- and macroangiopathy, osteoarthropathy, contributing to increased trauma and infection of the soft tissues of the foot, the development of purulent necrotic process and leading to amputation in neglected cases. Diabetic foot syndrome is a collective term that unites a group of late complications of diabetes mellitus, in which pathological changes in the patient's feet develop as purulent necrotic processes, ulcers, and osteoarticular lesions occurring against the background of specific changes in peripheral nerves, vessels, skin and soft tissues, bones and joints. In some cases, the concept of «diabetic foot» is not used as an independent nosological form, but indicates its constituent diseases (abscess, phlegmon, gangrene and others).

Sheehan syndrome is a pituitary disease, usually the result of severe hypotension or shock caused by heavy blood loss during or after childbirth, and can manifest with varying degrees of pituitary insufficiency. However, Sheehan syndrome, although rare, remains one of the most common causes of hypopituitarism in developing countries. The article describes the principles of classification, clinical symptoms, approaches to the diagnosis and therapy of Shihan symptom.

Thyroid cancer is a malignant tumor of the thyroid gland, developing from follicular or from C cells. Depending on the histopathological structure, it is classified as papillary, follicular, medullary and anaplastic thyroid cancer. Clinical evaluation of thyroid nodules is performed using a fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy under ultrasound control. And an open biopsy followed by a histological examination of a cancer suspicious lesion is performed after a non-diagnostic FNAB cases. Early diagnosis of thyroid cancer is the key to a favourable outcome.

The article outlines the main issues concerning the testing of military personnel at the present stage. Problems such as features of terminology, features of testing the military personnel are covered, methodical and legal aspects of testing are analyzed. Individuall issues of dismissal of military personnel from military service when identifying the fact of psychoactive drug abuse are considered.

Multifactorial prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) is a priority in the developed countries of the world. These measures can improve the quality of life of citizens and reduce the expenditures of the state for the treatment of pathologies in the future. However, prevention programs do not always show high efficacy. The purpose of this work is to identify a target group of students to improve the programs of multifactorial prevention of CNCDs development. Materials and methods. The study involved 158 students enrolled in one of seven institutes. The work was based on data from an anonymous online survey, consisting of 16 questions, focused on determining the attitude of students to their health and mobile medicine. The survey was completed in February 2019. Results. We were able to reliably identify gender characteristics in attitude to health, to determine the proportion of students familiar with the basic concepts of maintaining a healthy lifestyle (HLS), and clarify the specifics of the main complaints, depending on the institution of education. The positive attitude of the overwhelming number of students to mobile medicine was also determined. Conclusion. Based on the study, it becomes possible to create specific primary prevention measures aimed at informing and promoting healthy lifestyle using mobile applications in particular.

It's no secret that people spend about a third of their life sleeping. It gives peace and rest to someone, and torments others by its absence and nightmares. Sleep disturbances are a fairly common problem. Frequent complaints of poor sleep have 8-15% of the adult population in the world, and 9-11% use various sleeping pills. Moreover, this indicator among the elderly people is much higher. Sleep disorders occur at any age and each age category is characterized by its own types of disorders. Thus, elderly patients most often complain about the difficulty of falling asleep in the evenings, frequent waking up, insomnia. While sleepwalking or somnambulism is more likely for children.

In 1965, American scientist Baruch Samuel Blumberg discovered the hepatitis B virus and proved the infectious nature of this disease, he was awarded the Nobel Prize as a result. The day of the fight against hepatitis was celebrated for the first time in 2008, and then it was held on May 19. However, after Blumberg’s death in 2011, the day of the fight against hepatitis was proposed to be celebrated on the birthday of its discoverer, namely July 28. The celebration is held under the auspices of the World Hepatitis Alliance. The main purpose of the date is to increase the number of people who know about the threat of various forms of hepatitis. This memorable date is one of the four official days of WHO devoted to the fight against infectious diseases, along with World Tuberculosis Day, World Malaria Day and World AIDS Day.