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The Complete Oncological Encyclopedia

The Atlas of Modern Oncology presents the latest achievements in the field of cancer treatment and prevention, as well as statistics and the spread of cancer diseases worldwide.

22.06.2015
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A micro robot with delicate tentacles

With the help of silicone manipulators, tiny medical robots will be able to work with the thinnest and most fragile parts of the human body without deforming them or causing any damage to them.

22.06.2015
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Adoption at the stage of several dozen cells

Unused embryos are a common "by–product" of in vitro fertilization procedures. Currently, several organizations in the United States are trying to introduce the practice of "adoption into the family" of such embryos.

19.06.2015
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Save from leukemia

In some cases, the only way to save is bone marrow transplantation, but there are only 35 thousand donors in Russia. In Germany, for comparison, six million.

19.06.2015
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It will only get worse

The most exotic version of the increase in regional mortality was given by the acting governor of the Leningrad region, A. Drozdenko. In his opinion, one of the reasons why people began to die more often in the region is connected with the attractiveness of local paid cemeteries.

16.06.2015
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Kanavero and Spiridonov do not lose optimism

Valery Spiridonov from Vladimir, suffering from incurable spinal atrophy, held his first meeting in the USA with an Italian surgeon who dreams of performing a unique head transplant operation.

16.06.2015
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Self-assembling micro robots

Such robots are a demonstration of the working principles on which even smaller medical robots will be created in the future, which will be able to operate directly inside the human body.

16.06.2015
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With a thought about the elderly

A "round table" on the topic was held in the State Duma: "Improvement of legislation regulating medical care for the elderly and their provision of medicines."

10.06.2015
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Watch your sense of smell!

The new data confirmed the researchers' previous observations that loss of sense of smell is an important factor in predicting premature death.

09.06.2015
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Fecal therapy is a game without rules

Scientists warn that fecal mass transplantation can lead to unforeseen consequences. The governments of the USA and Canada have taken the regulation of fecal transplants under control. In other countries, it would be worth following their example.

08.06.2015
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Let me kill my children

The monstrous request of a resident of the Indian city of Agra, set out in a letter addressed to the president of the country, is due not to the author's mental illness, but to a severe hereditary disease of his children.

05.06.2015
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How to save Russian healthcare from death

The problem of Russian healthcare for the author, as an economist, is that it is almost the only industry organized in a Soviet way in the Russian market economy. In this form, she is doomed to a long and painful death.

04.06.2015
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Coffins for the elite

The Perm municipal enterprise "Funeral Services" has placed a tender on the public procurement website for the supply of elite coffins equipped with capsules for storing the DNA of the deceased.

03.06.2015
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Octopus Surgeon

A team from the Italian Institute of Biorobotonics has created a prototype of a surgical manipulator – a mechanical tentacle with which you can gently lift and hold internal organs during surgery.

20.05.2015
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Technology opportunities

An international conference on accessibility of mobile and information and communication technologies for the elderly and People with Disabilities M-Enabling Russia 2015 was held in Moscow.

20.05.2015
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The oldest candidate of Sciences

102-year-old pediatrician-neonatologist Ingeborg Rapoport has been waiting for the defense of her doctoral thesis for 77 years.

18.05.2015
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All cyborgs will be visiting us

As part of the Geek Picnic – 2015 festival (in Moscow on June 13-14 and in St. Petersburg on June 20-21), a congress will be held, the participants of which will be people who have modified their bodies with bionic prostheses.

08.05.2015
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An iPod adapted for the elderly – for every pensioner

Do not think that altruism alone is behind all this. The market for services for the elderly is expected to grow explosively in the coming years, and today Apple and IBM are among the pioneers on the way to this "gold mine".

06.05.2015