[Clinical and immunological effect of vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae, type B, in children with disorders of the nervous system].

Observations on 277 children aged 3 months to 4 years with lesions of the nervous system, immunized with vaccine Act-HIB (Aventis Pasteur, France), were carried out in groups of children. The significant decrease of the level of Hib nasopharyngeal carrier state in 3.3 times and the decrease of total morbidity in acute infections of respiratory and ENT organs in 2.7 times occurred after immunization was revealed. The immunological effect of immunization on the level of protective titers against H. influenzae, type b, in children with organic CNS lesions in children was shown.

[A medical-and-social description of student youth in the Republic of Komi]. / Mediko-sotsial'naia kharakteristika studencheskoi molodezhi v Respublike Komi.

Ensuring a better health among youth in the North of Russia is an element of the unified training system of any personnel because young northerners are not only a basis for working activities in the northern latitudes after they graduate from educational facilities, they are also an important component of the country's intellectual potential. Definition of reasons having a positive or negative effect on the health of student youth under the conditions of a northern city is possible only if the social, domestic, natural-climatic and ecological characteristics of the environment are thoroughly investigated. The health condition of student youth is described with respect to the physical development parameters, morbidity with or without working (educational) disablement and to sociological questioning results.