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 oviet preparations on the basis of this
 search.
 Chazov discussed the potential ad-
 vantages of organizing joint work on
 certain problems, such as development of
 preparations for treating AIDS patients.
 He claimed that the USSR Academy of
 Sciences' Institute of Molecular Biology
 has the potential to develop such a
 preparation quickly.  He mentioned that he
 and colleagues developed a method for
 synthesizing nalokson (a preparation for
 treating drug addiction and shock) in
 collaboration with academician A. V. Fokin.
 Chazov went on to discuss steps which have
 been taken to improve the system for
 testing and appraising medicinal prepara-
 tions and medical technology.  A Main
 Scientific-Technical Administration is
 being created in the Ministry of Health,
 for example.  All control institutes are
 being combined into an Institute for State
 Expert Review, and a new system is being
 introduced for the purpose of substantially
 expediting the testing of new drugs.  Under
 this system, the first clinical stage in
 the study of a preparation will be com-
 ^ted in 14 days.  A conclusion will then
 ,issued in regard to the advisability of
 "continuing work on the preparation.
 Marchuk endorsed the idea of targeted
 planning for promoting the advancement of
 medical research of major importance in key
 areas.  He noted that drafting of a special
 large-scale program has been proposed for
 this purpose.  Such a program would
 provide, among other things, for future
 integration of efforts of the USSR Academy
 of Sciences and AMN SSSR with those of the
 ministries of the medical and microbiologi-
 cal industry, the chemical industry and the
 ministry of instrument building, means of
 automation and control systems.  Chazov
 felt that work on specific problems of
 combating AIDS should be included in such a
 program.
 Author:  Lvov, Grigory
 Title:  HUMAN PHYSICAL FIELDS STUDIED WITH
 EXTRA-SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT
 rimary Source:  Sovetskaya Belorussiya,
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 August 20, 1987, No. 191 (17074), p. 3,
 cols. 1-7
 Abstract:  The article reports on methods
 used by scientists of the USSR Academy of
 Sciences' Institute of Radio Eng1peeri_ng_
 and Electronics to study fields which occur
 around human beings and other living
 organisms in the course of breathing and
 other vital processes.*  This research was
 directed by academician Y.uriy...Gulyayev and
 Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences
 Eduard Godik.  Initial results of the
 projecf were reported recently at a
 scientific session of the USSR Academy of
 Sciences' Department of General Physics and
 Astronomy.
 A unique computerized measuring complex
 consisting of several connected systems was
 developed at the radio engineering in-
 stitute for the project.  This equipment is
 said to include an infrared-imaging system;
 a computer complex; capacitive antennas for
 recording movements of low-energy electric
 charges on a subject's skin; a unit
 consisting of a magnetometer and a super-
 conductive quantum interference sensor
 (skvid); a special phonon-counting system
 for recording changes in the skin's
 luminescence; and apparatus for monitoring
 the condition of the subject's immediate
 surroundings, using such methods as
 thermography and laser spectroscopy.  The
 imaging system, which records infrared
 radiation from 16,000 points on the body's
 surface, is capable of measuring their
 temperature 10 times a second with a
 precision of hundredths of a degree, it is
 claimed.  This information is transmitted
 to the computer, which is used to distin-
 guish sections ort the skin's  surface where
 temperatures change in certain ways, and to
 trace the pattern of these changes over a
 period of time.  The skvid-magnetometer is
 said to be capable of measuring magnetic
 fields which are billions of times weaker
 than the Earth's magnetic field.  Subjects'
 fields were measured with the aid of 64
 sensors connected to this unit.  Correction
 for interference from external sources,
 such as electromagnetic fields of natural
 objects and industrial facilities, was done
 with the aid of the computer complex and
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 pecial devices.
 The complex reportedly enabled the
 `j. ,~ enti sts to obtain original experimental
 measurements of the intensity and spatial
 distribution of fields surrounding living
 beings, and also to determine human
 sensitivity to fields generated by another
 human organism.  This was accomplished by
 simulating fields with instruments.  It was
 found that a human being is capable of
 sensing changes in another person's
 infrared radiation, and possibly also of
 sensing low-energy electric fields of
 another organism.  It was discovered that
 the skin can sense variations in a heat
 flow from an external source which are on
 the order of 0.3-0.5 milliwatt per square
 centimeter, for example.
 *See also the Daily--SNAP, January 8, 1987,
 p. 1, col. 2
 Correction:  On page 2 of the September 9,
 1987, issue of SNAP, the first sentence of
 ,,the item on an explosion for military
 poses should read:  "On August 25, at
 \-,,.,'JO p.m., Moscow time, a ground burst of a
 conventional explosive charge was conducted
 ..."  The title should be corrected
 accordingly.
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