Articles

Various

The epidemic of fake medicines

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 25% of medicines consumed in emerging economies are counterfeit, and Russia is at the epicenter of this epidemic of falsification of medicines.

19.01.2012

Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease ordered to be eliminated at a rapid pace

The National Plan to Defeat Alzheimer's disease by 2025 provides for both medical and social aspects of the fight against senile dementia.

19.01.2012

Innovative Russia

Tales of innovation

If one of the Russian minds finds a cure for cancer or comes up with a teleportation machine, it will remain on paper if foreigners do not get to it, and we will not succeed. However, this is said by a person who has difficulty, but it turns out...

19.01.2012

Genetics

In his right mind and sober memory

The rate of decline in the intellectual abilities of people in old age by 24% is due to many small differences in the genome.

19.01.2012

Various

Buy "smart pills"!

Soon, British pharmacies will start selling "smart" pills that will monitor not only whether the patient took them on time, but also monitor several indicators of his health and even behavior.

19.01.2012

Note to the businessman

The collapse of patents: fly – it will become cheaper!

Last year, the process began, which has already been dubbed the "patent collapse". Innovative blockbuster medicines of the world's leading companies, created in the 90s of the twentieth century, began to lose patent protection one after another.

18.01.2012

Grants and competitions

German-Russian Partnership in Science, Education and Innovation

A new version of the agreement on strategic partnership between Russia and Germany in the field of education, research and innovation has been published on the website of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow.

18.01.2012

Grants and competitions

Competition of scientific papers of young oncologists

The Federal State Budgetary Institution "N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia announces a competition of scientific papers of young scientists.

18.01.2012

Healthy skepticism

Healers under the wing of the authorities

It seems that pseudoscientific medicine, which flourishes not only in private but also in public hospitals, finds reliable patronage in the authorities and develops at a much faster pace than traditional healthcare.

17.01.2012

Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation of the membranes of aging nerves: and here young blood will help

As a result of the experiment on connecting the blood flows of old and young mice, the remyelination of the nerve sheath in elderly rodents began to go as well as in young animals.

17.01.2012

Your health

Peyronie's disease: take care of the most important thing!

Peyronie's disease is a disease in which cartilaginous plaques form in the protein membrane and cavernous bodies of the penis, leading to its curvature, severe pain during erection and erectile dysfunction.

16.01.2012

Various

Deodorants and breast cancer: it's not that simple

Traces of parabens were found in 99% of the analyzed breast tissue samples of patients diagnosed with breast cancer. At the same time, parabens are found even in the tissues of patients who have never used deodorants.

16.01.2012

Cellular technologies

Cord Blood Stem Cells against Type 1 Diabetes

Umbilical cord blood stem cells "retrain" T-lymphocytes of patients with type 1 diabetes, which partially restores insulin synthesis in the pancreas.

16.01.2012

Grants and competitions

Presidential Scholarships for study abroad

Announcement of the All-Russian open competition for scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation to study abroad for students and postgraduates of Russian universities in the 2012/2013 academic year.

13.01.2012

Note to the businessman

Pharmaceutical market: systematic offensive on all fronts

The global pharmaceutical market is steadily growing. By October 2011, the total sales volume on it reached 550.3 billion US dollars (as of September 2011, this figure was 547.8 billion).

13.01.2012

Biomedicine

To the attention of the fat and lazy: do you want a shot instead of physical education?

Injections of airizine will not make a Schwarzenegger choke, because this hormone is not involved in building muscle mass. But perhaps the drugs developed on its basis will be able to replace physical education for lazy people and gluttons :)

13.01.2012

Your health

Rejuvenation of senile diseases

"Younger" is not only osteochondrosis. Hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, arthrosis – all these diseases a couple of decades ago were inherent mainly in older people, and now they are increasingly being detected in those who are barely thirty.

13.01.2012

Innovative Russia

Russian biopharmaceuticals: to cut a window to the West

The cooperation of Western biopharmaceutical companies and investors with Russian development institutes allows foreign specialists to establish effective interaction with drug developers from the Russian Federation, according to foreign experts.

13.01.2012

Various

Resveratrol: Beware of fakes!

Over the course of 7 years, Dr. Deepak Das fabricated and falsified data on 145 cases of the beneficial effects of resveratrol on the human body, officials from the University of Connecticut said.

13.01.2012

Genetics

Genome for a thousand dollars: we are going to the finish line

There is not much left until the end of the race for the sequencing of the personal genome for 1 thousand dollars and one day: if this barrier is not overcome this year, then they will take it next.

12.01.2012