[Development of medical and biological research in Eastern Siberia]

The impact of the North conditions on the human body has been studied. There are high morbidity and mortality rates, abnormal pregnancy, premature and abnormal labors, and congenital malformations in the newborn. A complex of medical and prophylactic measures has been worked out to protect human health as a result of the studies of the regularities of general and occupational diseases at some enterprises in the Far North, Yakutia, and Buryatia.