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Healthy skepticism

Iatrogenic impotence

If you want to take a scientifically unsubstantiated test for erectile dysfunction, keep in mind: the article in the Daily Mail (probably quite accidentally) forgot to attribute "On the rights of advertising, paid for by Pfizer."

21.06.2013
Other life sciences

Wireless Retinal Prosthesis

Biotechnologists from Stanford University have successfully transplanted retinal prostheses into the eyes of rats, which dispense with a power source and require minimal surgical intervention for implantation.

20.06.2013
Other life sciences

Hyaluronic acid protects against cancer

Unusually long hyaluronic acid molecules in naked diggers prevent cells from reaching increased density during division. The formation of a tumor is often preceded by the "crowding" of cells, so its prevention can be considered as one of the additional barriers to carcinogenesis.

20.06.2013
Theories of aging

About the reality of the Methuselah Century: Part 1

How are modern ideas about the mechanisms of aging changing, is it possible to influence them, what consequences will this lead to? Academician Vladimir Petrovich Skulachev answers these and other questions.

20.06.2013
Biomedicine

The cure for Alzheimer's disease: failure again...

Eli Lilly Corporation has stopped the second phase of clinical trials of a drug for Alzheimer's disease after four study participants were found to have impaired liver function.

19.06.2013
Controversial

Is the cause of menopause a demon in the rib?

According to the researchers, natural selection is to blame for everything: men prefer to look for younger women as a sexual partner, so older women "get out of the game" with the help of menopause.

19.06.2013
Biomedicine

Fecal therapy according to the standard

Due to the ever-growing interest of patients in this procedure, the FDA has begun to develop a unified standard for intestinal microflora samples for transplantation.

19.06.2013
Biomedicine

Early diagnosis of oropharyngeal cancer

Antibodies to one of the proteins of the human papillomavirus appear in the blood several years before the diagnosis of oropharyngeal cancer. Such an early diagnosis will increase the chances of patients with a favorable outcome of the disease.

18.06.2013
Various

Alzheimer's disease with a criminal outcome

A man burned his wife together with a country house. He was pushed to this act by deep depression – the woman was bedridden and suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

18.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in urology

In recent years, scientists have grown many types of tissues and organs from stem cells – from a heart valve to a whole heart. Urology did not stand aside either.

18.06.2013
Biomedicine

A blood test will show chromosomal abnormalities of the fetus

The method of detecting chromosomal abnormalities using cell-free fetal DNA obtained from the blood of a pregnant woman is a serious alternative to existing methods of prenatal diagnosis of congenital fetal pathologies.

18.06.2013
Healthy skepticism

Does Russia need immortality?

It is probably not worth reviving the reputation of "Kremlin dreamers", especially with such strange projects as the promise of immortality.

18.06.2013
Genetics

Will studying a rare mutation help defeat obesity?

The discovery of a mutation that prevents fat from accumulating will allow us to better understand the causes of the opposite condition – when there is too much fat. And this is relevant for a much larger number of people.

17.06.2013
Other life sciences

How evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy

Peter Lansdorp, head of the European Institute for the Biology of Aging – about why some cells die and others live forever, how evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy and how cooperation with the Skolkovo project is conducted.

17.06.2013
Various

Philips – for Russian healthcare

Elena Dizendorf, Medical Director of Philips in Russia and the CIS, spoke about how Philips Healthcare could help Russians stop dying from cancer, as well as about other areas of the company's work in Russia.

17.06.2013