[Methods of diagnosis of thallium intoxication and its antidote therapy]. / Metody diagnostiki tallievykh intoksikatsii i antidotnaia terapiia tallotoksikozov.

Absence of early signs specific for thallium intoxication requires objective diagnostic methods. The studies covered 4 techniques: electroretinography (ERG), assessment of urine levels of thallium and delta-aminolevulinic acid, capillaroscopy. The authors supported their previous foundation concerning diagnostic value of ERG for early diagnosis of thallium effects (higher amplitude of b-wave in one and that of a-wave in 8 out of 10 examinees). Further experimental and clinical basis for grading the intoxication through amounts of urinary thallium were found promising. Capillaroscopy method appeared informative: 8 out of 12 examinees demonstrated spastic and atonic state of hand capillaries--that provided objective verification of vascular disorders in workers exposed to thallium and its derivatives.

[Physiologic and hygienic evaluation of work and health status of women workers employed at institutions of the Culture Ministry]. / Fiziologo-gigienicheskaia otsenka truda i sostoianiia zdorov'ia rabotnits, zaniatykh na predpriiatiiakh i uchrezhdeniiakh Ministerstva kul'tury.

The authors revealed substantial occupational hazards that are: unfavorable sanitary and hygienic environment (musicians, librarians, workers taking care of animals, and others), physical and psychoemotional stress (gymnasts, acrobats, and their assistants, actors, workers taking care of animals), unnatural and uncomfortable working posture (gymnasts, conjurers). Matching physiologic and hygienic results with evaluation of the workers' health state, the authors managed to disclose correlation between the occupational characteristics and functional state. The studies helped to form methodic recommendation on better health state for the occupations observed, on rational placement of pregnant women employed by Russian Culture Ministry.

[Comparative evaluation of morbidity in workers of chemical plants]. / Sravnitelnaia otsenka zabolevaemosti rabochikh khimicheskikh proizvodstv.

The assessment of workers morbidity in production of synthetic detergents and organic synthesis is presented. The levels of morbidity depend of labour conditions, production technology, age of workers. Respiratory infectious diseases occurred at all enterprises. Diseases with involvement of mucous membranes were the most prevalent (rhinitis, rhinopharyngitis, colpitis, and allergic rhinitis).

[Health status of postal service workers]. / Sostoianie zdorov'ia rabotnikov pochtovoi sviazi.

The improvement of health status of post-office workers along with identifying the leading causes of morbidity is an urgent task. The analysis of morbidity according to medical examination data and temporary disability showed the prevalence of nervous diseases among sorters of postal wrappers and letters, circulatory diseases among sorters of printed matter and operators of communication service, musculoskeletal diseases among sorters of postal parcels and wrappers. The deducted equations of multiple regression permitted to establish the impact of medico-social and industrial factors on the development of certain groups of diseases. The greatest impact of industrial factors on the development of morbidity (61-66 percent) was found among sorters of postal wrappers and operators of communication service, whose labour was regarded as hard and strenuous work. High prevalence of neurotic reactions, hypertensive disease, occupational diseases of the bones and organs of movement was found among workers of this branch. The cause-and-effect association between morbidity and industrial factors permitted to substantiate the system of health promoting activities.