[Certain medico-economic prerequisites for the integration of spa and resort facilities into the system of compulsory health insurance].

The involvement of spa and resort facilities in the system of compulsory health insurance is of primary importance for the improvement of medical aid provided to the population. The application of the methods for the calculation of differential expenditures on the spa and resort-based treatment and estimation of their dependence on a variety of factors may facilitate the more rational use of the available resources of compulsory health insurance.

[On the selected problems of the involvement of spa-and-resort facilities in the implementation of territorial programs of compulsory medical insurance].

The inclusion of spa-and-resort facilities in the sphere of compulsory medical insurance is in accordance with the law "On the compulsory medical insurance in the Russian Federation". However, this work implies serious preparatory activity aimed at estimating the requirements of different groups of the country's population in the follow-up treatment and rehabilitation based at the spa-and-resort facilities as well as the available resources for this purpose, modes of payment, rate structure, etc. The spa and resort-based treatment within the framework of the compulsory medical insurance system must be made one of the components of the regional programs of medical rehabilitation.

[The antioxidant properties of parmidine in a toxic lesion of the liver]. / Izuchenie antioksidantnykh svoistv parmidina v usloviiakh tokischeskogo porazheniia pecheni.

The experiments on rats with toxic lesions of the liver induced by tetrachlorinemethane showed that parmidine (pyridinolcarbamat) promotes the reduction of the activity of lipid peroxidation in the liver tissue homogenates and erythrocytes. The pronounced tendency towards normalization of free-radical oxidation correlated with the positive dynamics of the histological picture of the liver.