[Ways of optimization and problems of training in occupational pathology in a medical institute]. / Puti optimizatsii i problemy prepodavaniia profpatologii v meditsinskom buze.

The article tackles up-to-date problems of higher medical education in Russia. The authors stress importance of wider education of attending doctors, occupational therapists and other professionals in occupational diseases, of increased number and duration of lectures and seminars on occupational diseases.

[Status of immunologic reactivity and prospects of the implementation of occupational selection of workers at a microbiological plant]. / Sostoianie immunologicheskoi reaktivnosti i perspektivy realizatsii professional'nogo otbora rabotnikov mikrobiologicheskogo proizvodstva.

The results of immunologic studies of different groups of workers engaged in the microbiologic synthesis production are presented. The study reveals a very important role of the immune system in the development of various forms of diseases. Differentiated shifts in various chains of cellular and humoral immunity have been identified in practically healthy people and in patients with occupational diseases both in acute condition and at the remittance stage. These shifts are specified by the form and stage of the disease, length of service at the given enterprise and individual immunity characteristics. By means of using immunograms it is possible to select patients with stable, adequate immune type enabling one to go on working at the industrial enterprise without any significant pathologic changes in the body.