[The results of the scientific activities of the organizations under the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine in 1998]. / Rezul'taty naukovoï diial'nosti ustanov, pidporiadkovanykh Ministerstvu okhorony zdorov'ia Ukraïny, u 1998 rotsi.

Data are submitted on the scientific potential of the system of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, its constituent parts, some features of financing and volume of scientific research work done in 1998. Results are presented of scientific investigations in basic fields of medicine and priority lines of activity of medical science. The importance of introduction of scientific developments into the health care practice is emphasized. Prerequisites for further development of sectorial medical science under present-day social and economic conditions are analyzed.

[An approach to genetic monitoring via a genetic registry]. / Pidkhid do henetychnoho monitorynhu cherez henetychnyi reiestr.

The analysis of the selective excerpt of the children with the inherited disorders has been made on the basis of the Kiev Medical Genetic Center, where the regional anonymous syndromological computer register has been organized. Register's file during 1993-96 has the information about 883 families that has a genetically ill proband. Genetic syndrome has been diagnosed in 78.02% (105 nosological points). The information taken from the register has allowed for the first time to distinguish the inherited pathology from the acquired one, so the new mutation from 30.23% out of all registered inherited disease. The necessity of the creation of the National Genetic Register in the Ukraine and the new conception of the two-stage genetical monitoring of the population has been proved.