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Life expectancy: stable growth

In 1910-12, the average life expectancy of men was 51 years, by 2010-12 it had grown to 79 years. The life expectancy of women during the same period increased from 55 to 83 years.

02.09.2015
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Doctors earn the most

The top ten highest-paid jobs included six vacancies related to healthcare. The top three are surgeons, general practitioners and psychiatrists.

31.08.2015
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Omega-3 – money is wasted?

American scientists have found that dietary supplements with a high content of omega-3 fatty acids do not protect the brain from aging and do not help preserve cognitive abilities in old age.

28.08.2015
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Old people will have to save on gifts

In 2014, the purchase of greeting cups cost the government approximately 145 million rubles and thus became a rather large burden on the country's budget.

23.08.2015
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$100,000,000 for a new body

The world's first candidate for a head transplant, Valery Spiridonov, was approached by a large private investor. He intends to invest about $100 million in a unique operation planned for 2017.

21.08.2015
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Test strip for early diagnosis of stroke

Buryat scientists are developing an express test in the Skolkovo laboratory that allows diagnosing stroke and pre-stroke condition in humans.

23.07.2015
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Life expectancy in the European Union

The shortest life expectancy of men was recorded in Lithuania – 68.5 years, the longest – in Italy (80.3 years). Women live the least in Bulgaria (78.6 years), the longest in Spain (86.1 years).

22.07.2015
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Decent aging: abroad will help you

The total budget of the project is more than a million euros, which were collected by ordinary citizens of Denmark. The money is planned to be spent on helping elderly people who need medicines, clothes, food and other vital things.

22.07.2015
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Grandma, you're pregnant!

A hundred-year-old British woman Doris Ayling from the city of Fareham received a letter from the city hospital informing the woman about the pregnancy.

21.07.2015
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Getting fat by leaps and bounds

The prevalence of obesity in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has been growing for 5 years and now averages 10 cases per 1000 people.

21.07.2015
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Learn "-omics"!

The educational program "Omix data: Acquisition and use in Medical Applications", developed by order of the Rusnano Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs in cooperation with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, has started today.

20.07.2015
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Bounty hunters of biotechnologists and bioinformatics

The new Internet resource "Blastim" publishes vacancies in biotechnological companies and scientific organizations engaged in bioinformatics and "wet" biology and many other useful information.

16.07.2015
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are life-threatening

The risk group (with an increase from 10 to 50% depending on the dose) most often includes patients suffering from problems with the cardiovascular system, but even in healthy people taking medications increases the risk of stroke and heart attack.

15.07.2015
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Pharmacogenetics has reached Yakutia

The program being developed at NEFU will automatically issue conclusions based on the entered results of pharmacogenetic testing of 21 drugs of 11 pharmacological groups.

14.07.2015
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Criminal Vaccine

In the United States, a court sentenced a scientist who falsified the results of research on the development of an HIV vaccine, for which millions of dollars were spent.

02.07.2015