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	Easy Way to Monitor Your Health
	Physicists from Novosibirsk are on the way to designing a biological sensor for easy and cheap diagnostics of various pathologies, as well as detection of tiniest amounts of hazardous substances in gas and liquid media.
--03-08-2011--
	Are Gold Nanoparticles Toxic?
	Gold nanoparticles are these days often used in medicine for purposes of treating and diagnostics of various diseases. However, scientists from all over the world have hot arguments about possible toxicity of this product of nanotechnologies and ability of these particles to cause mutations in living beings.
--14-07-2011--
	Why Policemen Smoke?
	Smoking is not very popular now, since medics and scientists proved how dangerous inhaling tobacco smoke is to our health. In order to explain benefits of healthy lifestyle to people, scientists decided to learn more about people, who use to smoke.
--11-07-2011--
	Psoriasis and Atherosclerosis – Anything in Common?
	Research, performed in Russia and other countries, revealed that formation processes of psoriatic and atherosclerotic plaques could have common mechanisms.
--08-07-2011--
	Shall Your Neurons Survive?
	Existing treatment for the Parkinson's disease improves motion behaviour of patients, but do not protect their neurons from deterioration and death. This means these drugs eliminate sysmptoms, but don't really cure the disease. Russian researchers currently work on a treating agent, which can prevent neuros from dying, and are testing the drug.
--08-07-2011--
	Hello! Your Cancer Treatment Has Arrived
	Russian researchers have developed a new type of composite nanoparticles, which successfully deliver porphyrines (for combating cancer) to target tissues. Luminescence can enhance photodynamic effect and helps control distribution of nanoparticles in living tissues.
--17-06-2011--
	Cell Phones Aren’t Good for Protozoa
	In our everyday life we spend a good deal of time being under influence of weak electromagnetic radiation – it can come from mobile phones or microwave ovens, for instance. Active debates about possible danger of this type of radiation take place all over the world. New facts on the subject arrive from Russian researchers.
--10-06-2011--
	Electron Beam to Fight Infections
	When we hear the word “radiation”, we are often scared, because of atomic bombs and Fukushima nuclear power plant. People should not worry – small radiation doses can make bodies transparent in order to find ailing parts, as well as search for dangerous objects in luggage and heal malignant tumors.
--30-05-2011--

News:

	Scary Photos for Russian Smokers
	Starting from May 2013, all cigarette packs in Russia will be supplied with gloomy graphic images depicting the impact of smoking on human health.
--12-05-2012--
	100 Health Schools for Patients to be Founded in Moscow
	The Board of Health published the territorial program of state guarantees for “rendering free medical aid in 2012”.
--10-01-2012--
	Over 40 People Hospitalized after Bromine Leak in Chelyabinsk
	On Thursday over 40 people were hospitalized in and around the Ural city, Chelyabinsk, because of a bromine gas leak.
--02-09-2011--
	Anti-Heroin Vaccine to Appear Soon
	Researchers from Ural State Medical Academy developed a substance, suitable for fighting addiction to opioid drugs, including heroin.
--05-08-2011--
	Russian Surgeons Performed Successful Lung Transplantation
	Russian transplant surgeons from Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency, Moscow, performed a successful transplantation of lungs for a patient with severe lung pathology.
--04-08-2011--
	Liver Regeneration Drug Developed
	Russian researchers from Tomsk and Novosibirsk developed a basic substance for future treating agent for liver regeneration during cirrhosis.
--11-07-2011--
	Deadly E.coli Arrived to Russia
	Russian researchers will study a deadly strain of Escherichia coli, which is responsible for sickness and death of many people in Europe.
--28-06-2011--
	New Anti-HIV Treatment Passes First Stage of Clinical Trials Successfully
	Russian medics announce about successful clinical studies of safety and pharmacokinetics of an innovative anti-AIDS treatment VM-500.
--22-06-2011--
	Russian Biotechnologies to Go to Washington
	Many Russian companies and research institutes are going to participate this year in BIO International Convention, which will take place in Washington in the end of June.
--16-06-2011--
	How Space Affects Human Bones
	The crew of the International space station will study the problem of calcium removal from bones during long-term space flights.
--15-06-2011--
	Glycosciences to Be Discussed in Moscow
	Researchers from Russia and India will discuss carbohydrates during the Russian-Indian Symposium on Glycosciences, which takes place in Moscow between June 13 and 16, 2011.
--09-06-2011--
	Parsley Claimed to Be as Dangerous as Drugs
	A week ago a decision of Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service about including parsley (Petroselinum crispuma A.W.Hill) in the list of plants, containing drugs, superpotent or toxic substance, came into operation.
--08-06-2011--
	More Interesting Facts about Human Brain
	Russian researchers from Orenburg State University suggest an explanation for functional difference of visually symmetrical cerebral hemispheres.
--27-05-2011--