[L. E. Golubinin, the Professor of the Moscow University and His Role in History of National Clinic of Beginning of XX Century].

The article presents the scientific biography of L. E. Golubinin, the prominent therapist, prepared on the basis of publications' review and rich archive materials, including documents of the Central Historical Archive of Moscow (f.

[The therapeutic clinics of the Moscow University at the turn of XIX-XX centuries: the comparative characteristic of scientific schools of Zakhariin, Ostroumov and Shervinskii-Golubinin].

The materials are analyzed characterizing scientific therapeutic schools organized in the Moscow university at the turn of XIX-XX centuries by G.A. Zahar'in, A.

[The Moscow Stomatological Institute as a third Moscow medical institute].

The article presents a short history of three third medical institutes existed in Moscow in different time.

[About the clinical school of D.D. Pletnev: Professor B.A. Egorov (1889-1963)].

The article considers the issues of clinical school created in the first half of XX century by D.D. Pletniyev, one of the founders of therapy in the USSR.

[Moscow therapeutic schools (from the 1920s to the 1940s)].

Six leading Moscow therapeutic schools in the 1920s to the 1940s are first identified and given in this paper; their personal composition, distinctive characteristics, and role in the history of Russian internal medicine are shown.

[Hypertensive crisis: pathogenesis, clinic, treatment].

Contemporary data on mechanisms of development, types, and clinical picture of hypertensive crisis (HC) are presented. Algorithms of rational therapy of uncomplicated and complicated HC are considered. Appropriateness of the use in HC of antihypertensive drugs with multifactorial action is stressed.

[Ivan Alekseevich Chernogorov--the professor-cardiologist of the Moscow Stomatologic Institute].

The article presents the scientific biography of Ivan Alekseyevitch Tchernogorov, the prominent Moscow cardiologist, the disciple of D.D. Pletnyev and VF Zelenin.

[The A.N. Kriukov scientific therapeutic school].

The article deals with the additions and specifications to the biography of A.N. Kryukov.

[To the centennial of the myocardial infarction. Priorities of domestic researchers in the study of the problem of modern cardiology].

There are domestic priorities in the 100-year history of myocardial infarction research a description of the disease clinical picture by V.P.Obrazcov and N.

[Clinical effectiveness of beta-adrenoblockers and their effects on copulative function in patients with hypertension].

Twenty four hour blood pressure and ECG monitoring, assessment of sexual function (questionnaires, penile artery Doppler flowmetry) were carried out in male hypertensives treated with atenolol, metoprolol, or bisoprolol. Compared with atenolol and metoprolol bisoprolol was found to be more effective and safe. The use of bisoprolol was associated with no negative changes and even with improvement of some parameters of sexual function.