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It is necessary to reduce blood pressure correctly

Chances to prolong their lives and not be a victim of a cardiovascular catastrophe are those who seek not only to stabilize their blood pressure in order to bring its indicators closer to the "working", but to lower it below the standard mark.

14.09.2015
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Lasker Award – 2015

The winners of the Lasker Prize for 2015 have been named. It was awarded to three scientists for research on DNA self-repair and cancer therapy, as well as a team of Doctors Without Borders for fighting the spread of the Ebola virus in Africa.

11.09.2015
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Canavero is recruiting a team

"Ren Xiaoping is the only person in the world who is able to lead this project," Canavero said. Since 2013, Ren's laboratory has performed about a thousand head transplant operations on mice, while the maximum life span of an animal after transplantation was one day.

11.09.2015
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Did not survive the crisis

Yevgeny Andreev, an employee of the Center for Demographic Research of the Russian School of Economics, said that the statistics of mortality in Russia are sad, but perhaps will not affect life expectancy.

04.09.2015
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Ahead of the whole planet

Russia has entered the top five of 188 countries in the international rating for the increase in life expectancy.

03.09.2015
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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