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Note to the businessman

Bigfarma-2009: fortune-telling on coffee grounds

Today, only the most risky experts, or those who are trying to make a name for themselves by taking advantage of the crisis situation, undertake to make long-term forecasts. In the field of big pharma development forecasts, scenarios are assumed that, like day and night, are opposed to each other.

19.01.2009
Your health

Counterfeit medicines: the problem can be solved

The presence of falsified medicines (FLS) in the pharmaceutical market of Russia today is recognized by everyone: politicians from high tribunes and pensioners in queues for free medicine talk about it. What is the amount of counterfeit circulating in the domestic pharmaceutical market, and is there a real possibility of its reduction?

19.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles – for "bad" cholesterol!

Researchers have managed to create artificial high-density lipoproteins (HDL) based on nanoparticles, which can become a promising means of combating atherosclerosis.

16.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Evgeny Ginter: "The genetic passport is a profanity"

Genetic passports in the form in which they exist today are absolutely not needed. And we don't do that in our center. Now only private commercial structures are doing this all over the world. And to be completely honest, I think there is not a single competent, qualified geneticist in any such structure, and if there is, then he is engaged in profanity.

16.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Business – for a healthy lifestyle

I All-Russian Congress "Healthy lifestyle as a condition for sustainable development of the state and a source of business competitiveness" (Moscow, January 29-30, 2009).

16.01.2009
Grants and competitions

Competition of young scientists from Alltech

The competition was established by Alltech to support young scientists and search for talented specialists. Participation in the program gives the contestants an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of one of the world's leading companies in the feed industry.

16.01.2009
Other life sciences

Micrographers for non-invasive surgery

The six-beam star of the micro-tool can be wound up through the blood vessels in the most inaccessible areas of the body. When the temperature rises to 40 degrees, the plastic softens, allowing the metal paws to shrink and capture a microscopic area of tissue.

15.01.2009
Grants and competitions

Microsoft for Doctors

The Russian representative office of Microsoft has announced the launch of a competition for the best software solutions for medical institutions – Microsoft4Doctors.

15.01.2009
Prolonging youth

Medicines for prolonging life

At the very end of the outgoing year, American scientists presented humanity with a luxurious New Year's gift — the hope for a quick solution to the problem of aging.

14.01.2009
Bioethics

Immoral science: Bioethics from the point of view of ordinary people

Reproductive biology and medicine — cloning, "designer babies", stem cell research, human-animal hybrids, and so on - are particularly fiercely controversial. Other "unpleasant" topics include nanotechnology, synthetic biology, genomics and genetically modified organisms.

14.01.2009
Your health

Where to go for treatment?

If serious medical care is needed, we prefer to look for a "good hospital" or a "knowledgeable doctor". But where and how to find them?

14.01.2009
Your health

Insomnia? Psychotherapy is better than pills!

Non-pharmacological treatment of chronic insomnia gives a long-term stable effect comparable to the effect of drug treatment, but its stability is much higher.

13.01.2009
Note to the businessman

Health insurance during the crisis

In a period of austerity, the issue of health insurance for employees of the enterprise requires the closest attention.

13.01.2009
Your health

About metabolism in general and weight loss in particular

The scientific term "metabolism" is becoming increasingly popular among non-specialists. Increasingly, popular articles – advertising and not only – write about the acceleration, increase and improvement of metabolism, about the effective elimination of metabolic toxins. Well, after the protracted holidays, many are occupied with only one question, "metabolic": how to lose weight?

12.01.2009
Your health

How to cure medicine?

The Ministry of Health proposes to "cure healthcare" by reforming funding, standardizing medical services and improving the quality of medical education. Doctors are skeptical: the main thing is the development of competition between medical institutions.

12.01.2009
Biomedicine

Obesity Switch

A new enzyme has been discovered in fat cells, which is a key regulator of fat metabolism and body weight. This opens up promising ways to find remedies for the treatment of obesity.

12.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Investments in nanotechnology: in your own or imported?

Tatiana Nikolenko, Director of Infrastructure Programs at RUSNANO, and Andrey Ivashchenko, director of the HimRar center, believe that it is more profitable to buy innovations in the West – there they are brought to the stage of business projects. And the chief scientific coordinator of the ISTC, Tatiana Gremyakova, is sure that RUSNANO's investments are in dire need of Russian applied science, which will finally wither if all the money goes to the West.

12.01.2009
Innovative Russia

Strategic Pharmacology

The strategic policy of the state should be aimed at creating a high-tech industrial complex that meets international standards. It is necessary, first of all, to direct efforts to restore the production of pharmaceutical substances, the development of new technologies that ensure the production of competitive drugs and medical products that can replace imported products.

12.01.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Development strategy – a course for innovation

The scenario of innovative development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry presupposes the concentration of resources in the main sectors of the country's economy, on priority innovation and investment projects, a limited number of key industrial technologies for which Russia already occupies a leading position or has real prospects of achieving them.

12.01.2009