[Cortisol content in the blood plasma in lung cancer].

Under examination were 25 patients with lung cancer. It was found that the cortisol level in blood plasma was significantly higher in the patients than in healthy subjects (in patients--20.99 mkg/100 ml +/- 1,36, in healthy subjects--12.

[Methodology of comparative epidemiologic research and features of the distribution of schizophrenia in different regions of the country].

In order to study the reliability of the methodology in a syndromological identification of schizophrenic patients, the authors accomplished the following study of schizophrenic patients in one of the districts of Moscow where the disease lasted for more than 30 years. A verification of the epidemiological material, convened according to a common programme and the method of identification was made in separate districts of Ivanovo and the Andizhan Region. The results of these studies detected a relatively high unanimous evaluation of the mental state by different psychiatrists on the syndromological level, not only at the moment of examination, but in a retrospective analysis of the clinical signs of the disease during different stages of the disease.