[Hungarian professional periodicals started quite late in European context. Their publish­ing, editing and editorial philosophy were equally influenced by specific historical and political situations. Certain breaking points of history resulted in termina­tion of professional journals (War of In­de­pendence 1848-1849, First and Se­cond World Wars), however there were pe­riods, which instigated the progress of sciences and founding of new scientific journals. Both trends were apparent in years after the fall of former Hungarian regime in 1990. The structure of book and journal publishing has changed substantially, some publishers fell “victim” others started successfully as well. The latters include the then-established publishing house Literatura Medica and its own scientific journal, Lege Artis Me­di­cinae (according to its subtitle: New Hun­garian Medical Herald) issued first in 1990. Its appearance enhanced significantly the medical press market. Its scientific publications compete with articles of the well-established domestic medical journals however its philosophy set brand-new trends on the market. Concerning the medical community, it takes on its problems and provides a forum for them. These problems are emerging questions in health care, economy and prevention, in close interrelation with system of public health institutions, infrastructure and situation of those providing individual health services. In all of them, Lege Artis Medicinae follows consequently the ideas of traditional social medicine.]

[Three decades ago, LAM was launched with the goal of providing scientific information about medicine and its frontiers. From the very beginning, LAM has also concerned a special subject area while connecting medicine with the world of art. In the palette of medical articles, it remained a special feature to this day. The analysis of the history of LAM to date was performed using internationally accepted publication guidelines and scientific databases as a pledge of objectivity. We examined the practice of LAM if it meets the main criteria, the professional expectations of our days, when publishing contents of the traditional printed edition and its electronic version. We explored the visibility of articles in the largest bibliographic and scientific metric databases, and reviewed the LAM's place among the Hun­ga­rian professional journals. Our results show that in recent years LAM has gained international reputation des­pite publishing in Hungarian spoken by a few people. This is due to articles with foreign co-authors as well as references to LAM in articles written exclusively by foreign researchers. The journal is of course full readable in the Hungarian bibliographic databases, and its popularity is among the leading ones. The great virtue of the journal is the wide spectrum of the authors' affiliation, with which they cover almost completely the Hungarian health care institutional sys­tem. The special feature of its columns is enhanced by the publication of writings on art, which may increase Hungarian and foreign interest like that of medical articles.]

[Today, non-communicable diseases and their underlying main risk factors, namely tobacco use, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol intake and unhealthy diet are responsible for almost 70% of the mortality worldwide. The Global Ac­tion Plan issued for the preven­tion and control of non-communicable diseases aims among others to reduce smoking rates by 30% as compared to the 2010 prevalence. The aim of the World Health Or­ga­ni­zation (WHO) in ac­cor­dance with the United Nations Sus­tai­nable Development Goals (UN SDG 2030) proposes to achieve a 23% target rate in Hun­gary by 2025. Based on the current smo­king prevalance (29%) and preliminary estimates this goal will not be accomplished. It is highly concerning that while the con­sumption of traditional tobacco products does not decrease at the expected rate in Hungary, novel nicotine and tobacco products are spreading worldwide and in Hungary as well. Thus in order to curb tobacco use, more ro­bust actions are needed in Hungary. More emphasis should be laid on the provisions of the WHO Fra­mework Con­vention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This document re­com­mends to in­crease the tax rate of to­bacco products, declares to halt the spread of novel nicotine and tobacco products, and urges health care requirements to support smokers in quit­ting. The present summary describes the smoking cessation support related tasks of the health care in­dust­ry, taking into ac­count current national smoking habits. ]

[Decreasing the often-seen multiple disabilities as a consequence of central nervous system impairments requires broadening of the tools of rehabilitation. A promising opportunity for this purpose is the application of physiotherapy robots. The development of such devices goes back a quarter of century. Nowadays several robots are commercially available both for supporting upper and lower limb therapy. The aim is never to replace the therapists, but rather to support and supplement their work. It is worthwhile applying these devices for goal-oriented exercises in high repetition, which one physically fatiguing for the therapist or for the correction of functional movement by various strategies. Robot mediated therapy is also useful for motivation of the patient and making the rehabilitation programme more versatile. Robots can be used for assessment of the neuromotor status as well. Several clinical studies have been executed in this field, all over the world. Meta-analyses based on randomized, controlled trials show that supplementing the traditional physiotherapy with a robot-mediated component presents advantage for the patients. Further studies are necessary to clarify which modality and intensity of the exercises, in which group of patients, in which stage lead to the expected outcome.]

[The objective assessment of the changes in the tumor burden along with cancer therapy has essential importance. Recently, the quantitative evaluation of the radiological tumor response was undergone several changes. For conventional chemotherapy of solid tumors the standard procedure has been RECIST since 2000. The targeted therapies trigger other pathophysiological changes in the cells than the cytotoxic agents, accordingly the morphological changes show a new picture. Therefore the targeted therapies require a new evaluation system, that takes into consideration not only the tumor size, but other changes as well, the changes of attenuation that corresponds with the proportion of the viable cells. In case of the targeted therapies in substantial clinical was experienced even without signifi cant morphological changes in the tumour size. As a consequence, the traditional, size-based criteria system can underestimate the effi ciency of the new types of treatments. To eliminate this problem new evaluation systems were created taking the tumortypes and treatment protocolls into consideration. The estimation of the early tumor response to targeted therapy also has high importance. In assessment of the response functional imaging methods are used more frequently. The role of PET has already been defi ned in numerous tumortypes, however the determination of the position of some promising functional examinations still require further studies.]