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Your health

The European system of cancer care – to Russia

Leading doctors of regional oncological dispensaries who have completed an internship at the Department of Oncology at Martin Luther University shared their impressions about how the European system of providing cancer care to patients functions and how applicable it is to our conditions.

18.03.2008

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According to international protocols

Clinical trials of new drugs are conducted according to the same protocols in different countries. Russia also participates in them, but not much: it accounts for 5-10% of the research volume.

13.03.2008

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Is it necessary to raise immunity?

For people without medical education, the concept of immunity and its weakening is mainly formed by advertising companies of drugs aimed at "strengthening" and "strengthening" the immunity that is obviously reduced for everyone.

11.03.2008

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Cigarettes renew the lungs

Hydrogen peroxide, which is included in tobacco smoke, even in small concentrations activates the receptor responsible for the reaction of lung epithelial cells to growth factor, a signaling molecule with which the body controls the renewal of the lung surface. As a result, the cells begin to divide more actively.

03.03.2008

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Do you want to lose weight? Never go on a diet!

Every fall, requests appear on Internet forums and women's websites to help you lose weight quickly for the New Year. And after that – by spring. Ladies get a lot of advice and really lose weight, and then return to the previous diet and get back their kilograms.

27.02.2008

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Dancing from the kidney

Any donor kidney received from a deceased person has a passport. The kidney enters a medical institution where it will be used for transplantation, with a passport containing all the data about it.

14.02.2008

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Prostatitis: legends and myths of male disease

The treatment of prostatitis, especially its severe and rare forms, is shrouded in a halo of mystery. Often the disease is associated with such difficulties that in life this diagnosis is carried as a heavy cross.

04.02.2008