[Training physicians in medical prevention specialty: problems and prospects].

Trained personnel makes effective activities of our country's state sanitary-and-epidemiological service and its promising development. Hygienists and epidemiologists have been trained at specialized faculties for more than 70 years. The state sanitary-and-epidemiological service has recently taken measures to preserve and train highly qualified specialists.

[Asbestos: contemporary problems of industrial medicine and ecology].

The article covers main steps of research work conducted by Ekaterinbourg Medical Research Center and determines contemporary problems of asbestos. The authors list priority directions of ecologic and hygienic research on the "Asbestos and Health" problem.