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Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: who is right?

According to Veronika Skvortsova, Russians live the longest in the world (!). Demographers believe that the situation with mortality has not changed for the better for half a century, and the current statistics do not reflect reality.

07.09.2015
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Global burden of disease: details

Over the past two decades, life expectancy in most countries of the world has increased markedly, however, people have become much more ill. What diseases are the scourge of modern humanity?

31.08.2015
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Global burden of disease

The growth rate of healthy life expectancy lags behind the growth of life expectancy – this means that people have begun to live longer with diseases and disabilities.

28.08.2015
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Cardiovascular diseases, mortality and life expectancy

Epidemiologists from Oxford University and Deakin University (Australia) analyzed statistics on mortality from cardiovascular diseases in European countries, including Russia and the former CIS countries.

25.08.2015
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Finance and romances

Megagrants, which in the old days were equal to five million rubles a year, shrank to a little more than two million in 2014. July 2015 is coming to an end, and there is still no money for approved long-term projects under the programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

21.07.2015
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Heart in 4D

The new software platform, using an ultrasound system, shows doctors the patient's heart in 4D – three dimensions plus time. In other words, doctors see the work of a person's heart in real time.

17.07.2015
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Bacon for vegan

Geneticists from Oregon have patented a fast-growing variety of dark red edible dulce seaweed. From naturally occurring dulce, this variety inherited a pronounced taste of bacon.

17.07.2015
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About blood and bone marrow donation

What has the ban on paid donation led to, is absolute safety possible during blood transfusion and why is the national register of bone marrow donors so important?

17.07.2015
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I can see right through you!

For future doctors, HoloLens glasses can project various organs, for example, a heart that will "beat". Organs can be viewed in the context, and the whole body can be divided into separate organ systems and considered separately.

15.07.2015
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Better over... than under...

Despite the fact that the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee has not confirmed the link between immunization against human papillomavirus and the development of diseases, the European Medicines Agency will re-examine this issue.

15.07.2015
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The killer in the white coat

An American oncogematologist, who prescribed chemotherapy to patients without medical necessity, received a 45-year prison sentence.

14.07.2015
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Who pays, he orders

The average American doctor receives $1,700 from pharmaceutical companies as a "reward". In general, in 2014, doctors and research institutions in the United States received about $6.5 billion for services rendered to manufacturers of medicines and medical devices.

03.07.2015
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All sisters…

To update the website about healthy lifestyle (it's good that it's not the same as in the newspaper of the same name) The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation allocated 4.3 million rubles for the creation of its new website – 15.6 million rubles. For the PR of his "positive image" – 54.97 million.

03.07.2015
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The Internet will become part of our DNA

In the head of the artist Neil Harbisson, who suffers from color blindness, there is an implanted antenna that converts the colors surrounding him into sounds. He has been living with this antenna for ten years and does not turn it off even when he goes to sleep.

30.06.2015
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James Watson's Exclusive Interview

Nobel Prize winner – about a cure for cancer, the future of personalized medicine and the complexities of DNA research.

29.06.2015
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Prototype of an electronic neuron

Scientists at the Karolinska Institute have created a functional nerve cell capable of simulating neurons and interacting with them in the same way as in the usual "live" mode.

25.06.2015
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Fake rhino horn is better than natural

The horn created with the help of a 3D printer can pass a number of tests, including spectrographic analysis and DNA analysis. The result will confirm that the horn is real. At the same time, artificial rhinoceros horns are not contaminated with pesticides, radionuclides, etc.

24.06.2015
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Super long - livers

It is unlikely that we will be able to ensure that most people live to 110 years, but the information collected during the study of centenarians may contribute to ensuring that we live a full life up to 85-90 years.

24.06.2015
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We have paper everywhere for the elderly

The Russian population is aging, and the government is increasingly liking the concept of active longevity, which is popular in the West. At least on paper – in real life, an archaic healthcare system and an extremely inefficient bureaucracy interfere.

23.06.2015