[The review of the monograph "Ambroise Paré. The first surgeon of the Kingdom" by E. E. Berger].

The review considers the approach placing famous French surgeon A. Paré into more general European context of European Renaissance of XVI century and into local context of intellectual life of Paris of this period. The refutation of widespread in history of medicine opinion about strict separation of university medicine from artisan surgery in Medieval Europe is discussed.

[The Soviet health care: in searching unicorn].

The article review the book about the Soviet health care. The analysis of its content and main conclusions is presented. The book inflicts powerful blow on myth of numerous merits, achievements, progressiveness, impeccability and humanity of the Soviet health care.

[The stomatological care of schoolchildren in the Soviet Russia in 1920s: Succession of ideas].

The article considers historical interaction between the Soviet Russia and the Weimar Republic related to prevention of caries in children in 1920s and the role of P. G. Dauge in it.

[The statistics and public health in Russia (end of XIX - early XX centuries): foreign approaches in educational literature].

In Russia, since the end of XIX century the statistical method became the main method of cognition in public health (social hygiene). The article is devoted to the study of academic literature on theory of public health statistics in Russia and the USSR in the 1880s-1930s. The first experience in Russia of description of statistics in educational literature on hygiene is expounded in the lectures of F.

Factors contributing to the high prevalence of multidrug-resistance/Rifampicin-resistance in patients with tuberculosis: an epidemiological cross sectional and qualitative study from Khabarovsk krai region of Russia.

Background: Growing prevalence of multidrug-resistant/Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB; resistance to Isoniazid and Rifampicin/Isolated resistance to Rifampicin) is putting in jeopardy the WHO End TB strategy. This study aimed to identify factors contributing to the high prevalence of MDR/RR-TB in Khabarovsk krai region of Russia.

Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted, analyzing clinical, demographic, and drug susceptibility testing data on 1440 patients.