[The effectiveness of the spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment of the schoolchildren under conditions of the continuous academic process].

Two groups of schoolchildren were included in the present study; 59 of them were allocated to the experimental group while 66 others comprised the control group. All of them were examined to estimate psychological, psycho-physiological and physiological effects of the health-promoting treatment basedon a local health resort. Mean reaction time and mean root square deviation of this parameter determined with the use of the noise-immunity test improved significantly in both groups, but the number of 'late reaction' errors declined only in the experimental group.

[Complex treatment of the patients with postoperative ventral hernia].

Overall 605 patients with postoperative ventral hernia underwent plasty of anterior abdominal wall by combined methods and on-lay or in-lay disposition of synthetic implant. Concomitant diseases were diagnosed 432 (71.4%) patients that required 495 simultaneous operations at 283 (43.