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Health of the nation: Mission impossible

The consequence of inflation and wage cuts was the health of Russians, the improvement of which can be forgotten in the near future. Leonid Roshal, Director of the Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology, believes that given the recent changes in the economy, "there can be no improvement in the health of the nation in principle. We need to try to maintain the state that we have at the moment."

18.03.2009

Your health

To smoke or not to smoke?

According to WHO, tobacco is the cause of death of every second smoker. In 1990, 35% of all deaths of middle-aged men (35-69 years old) in economically developed countries were caused by smoking. During the twentieth century, tobacco killed about 100 million people – this is more than died in World War II.

16.03.2009

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Alcohol issue

The National Institute for Research on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the USA proposed to diagnose "alcoholism" by answering a single question. You can answer it, and if you wish, check out the questionnaire of ten points.

13.03.2009

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Do not refuse vaccination!

Supporters of the refusal of vaccinations believe that doctors and medical staff of public hospitals are in collusion with vaccine manufacturers and hide from people the alleged danger of vaccination. Paul Offit and other experts, in turn, are convinced: in the modern world, people too rarely witness the death of children from diseases, so they cannot assess the level of need for vaccination.

19.02.2009

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Men's health in questions and answers

Your questions on the topic "Men's health" will be answered by the chief physician of the R.M. Fronstein Urology Clinic, Professor M.E.Chaly.

19.02.2009

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Will life get more expensive?

According to the Ministry of Finance, in case of revision of approaches to the definition of insurance amounts in the legislation for damage caused to human life, it would be possible to introduce limits of 2-3 million rubles. Is it a lot or a little? After all, in the West, in such cases, you can get much more.

17.02.2009

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Pacifiers instead of medicines

The positivity of the crisis may consist in the fact that it will force officials to build a more effective scheme for providing medicines, – said the president of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists K.Danishevsky, – and give an impetus to sweep out the garbage in beautiful packages from the pharmacological market.

13.02.2009

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Sleep and insomnia

In many ways, the development of insomnia is influenced by the age factor: complaints about poor sleep in people over 60 are 3-4 times more common than in middle-aged people. There is no universal sleeping pill that would help all people, just as there is no single cause of sleep disorders.

10.02.2009

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The surest way to treat obesity

The most common are metabolic-alimentary and endocrine obesity. This division is very conditional, because both forms of pathology are closely intertwined. Thus, alimentary-metabolic obesity very rarely occurs in the absence of any endocrine disorders, and endocrine obesity, in turn, is impossible without overeating and inactivity.

20.01.2009

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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

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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

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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

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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

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My dear cellulite

Actually, "cellulite" in translation from "medical" to "universal" means "inflammation of the cell", and not "orange peel". That's about the myths and legends of the mysterious "orange disease" and I want to tell you today.

11.01.2009

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Stress and "burnout": effective methods of struggle

Stress is a natural and unavoidable feature of the life of any living organism, contributing to its survival. However, with the development of society, stress increasingly began to acquire a social connotation and became associated with concepts such as self-satisfaction, success in society and the need to meet the expectations of other people.

29.12.2008

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Emergency care: Do no harm!

First aid should be provided promptly and correctly. And both words are key here: sometimes procrastination is like death, and sometimes it's better to do nothing than to do and harm.

26.12.2008

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Which cream is better?

Some secrets of the contents of tubes with creams were recently revealed by scientists from the Novosibirsk "Scientific Cosmetological Society". They sorted out the composition of cosmetics from our and foreign companies.

25.12.2008

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About flu vaccination

There is no doubt that annual vaccination against influenza is the only real measure to prevent this infection. Without vaccination, it is impossible to prevent an epidemic of influenza and reduce the number of severe complications, as the World Health Organization wants. Moreover, influenza vaccines are the safest and most effective among other vaccines on the modern market.

19.12.2008

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By 2010, cancer will be the number one killer in the world

In the "Cancer Report for 2008", which was published by WHO on December 9, cancer will become the main cause of human deaths by 2010, leaving far behind cardiovascular diseases, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The largest increase in oncological diseases – 1% per year – is expected in China, Russia and India.

11.12.2008