In recent decades there have been significant changes in the clinic of infectious endocarditis. In the presented scientific review detailed analysis of the current characteristics of the clinic and diagnosis is carried out. There is a growing incidence worldwide. Persons of elderly and senile age began to hurt more. According to the latest data, both in Western countries and in Russia to first place in the etiologic structure of infective endocarditis is Staphylococcus aureus. Modern disease is characterized by further increase in the frequency of primary infective endocarditis caused by unmodified heart valves. The septic forms of the disease began to meet less frequently, im-mune pathological manifestations of the disease are observed more often. The classic clinical picture is revealed not always, atypical forms of the disease, the cases of myocardium failure in the patients with infectious endocarditis are detected often. Thromboembolic complications still are among the most frequent and severe complications of infective endocarditis and its have a tremendous impact on his forecast. Recently come to the forefront of cerebral thromboembolic complications. Relapsing course of the disease is more common. The frequency of infective endo-carditis with damage to the valves of the right heart increases. Thus, timely diagnosis of infective endocarditis re-mains a topical problem of modern clinical medicine. The authors conclude that it is necessary to carry out further research in this direction.

Over the last 15 years 40 dissertations on traditional medicine, in particular – on reflexology, were presented in the Dissertation Council at the Russian Scientific Center “Medical rehabilitation and balneology". Among them, 11 works were on competition of a scientific degree of the doctor of Sciences and 31 – scientific degree of the candidate of Sciences. Thesis presentation in chronological order is as follows: in 2001 – 4 works; in 2003 – 7 ; in 2004 – 6; in 2005 – 3; in 2006 – 2; in 2007 – 1; in 2008 – 6; in 2009 – 5; in 2010 – 1; in 2011 – 3; in 2012 – 1; in 2013 – 1 and, finally, in 2014 – 2. Thus, there has been some reduction in the number of works, and, possibly, the decline of interest in the problem itself. With a certain degree of conventionality, the authors have divided the thesis into blocks "Fundamental research", "New technologies", "Traditional medicine in diseases of the nervous system and internistiche pathology", etc. It should be recognized that all dissertations were defended, but are not of equal quality. The authors note that in each block there are works devoted to the important issue - the combina-tion of acupuncture and homeopathy, including pharmacopuncture. The presented studies were discussed adequately, emitting positions "contingent", "methods", "general provisions".