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Hospital of the future: breakthrough or manilovshchina?

Billionaire Patrick Soon-shon is working on an IT system that, according to his plan, will help doctors defeat most diseases. Skeptics consider the project almost a scam. Adherents – a grandiose breakthrough in medicine.

12.11.2014
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Dementia virus?

Unlike many other viruses that have passed to humans from animals, the ATCV-1 virus came to us from algae. But so far, he has not been noticed in anything serious – except for a slight weakening of some brain functions.

30.10.2014
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75 – and basta?

Dr. Emanuel is sure that it is inefficient to spend medical resources on those whose quality of life has decreased. Therefore, a person who has turned 75 should be able to say goodbye to life.

26.09.2014
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My telomeres are getting longer... longer... even longer…

"If you had told me ten years ago that meditation would become one of the areas of my work, I would have decided that one of us is definitely crazy," Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn told the New York Times in 2007.

10.07.2014
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Vitamins in question

Is it worth it to regularly consume vitamins for millions of apparently healthy people who do not have any complaints about their well-being? Scientists are divided into two camps on this issue.

03.07.2014
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The Smoke of the Fatherland

The tough "anti–smoking" law that has come into force has divided Russia into two camps, one of which considers the law democratic, the other discriminatory.

23.06.2014
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Resveratrol case: investigation continues

Despite the initial optimism, it was not possible to get unambiguous results with resveratrol, and his adventures in modern biology can pull on a small, but extremely confusing detective series.

14.05.2014
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Obokata does not give up

Japanese female scientist Haruko Obokata, the creator of "acidic" stem cells, around which a scandal broke out due to suspicions of falsification of scientific data, does not agree with the conclusions about the falsification of experiments.

09.04.2014
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Freedom to the radicals!

The hypothesis of James Watson suggests that diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular diseases and some cancers are associated with the inability of the body to synthesize enough free radicals.

01.04.2014
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Be careful with antioxidants

The balance between oxidants and antioxidants is crucial for our physiology, but this balance is individual for each person. Taking supplements with antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, we can upset this balance.

02.12.2013
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Bio-skin or too expensive bandage?

Many doctors say that "Giamatrix" is not a wound–healing bioplastic material, but a wound dressing. Moreover, it suits some as one of the components of complex treatment, and for others it is unacceptable because of the high cost.

29.11.2013
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Is screening for mutations in cancer not effective enough?

The editor-in-chief of the Medscape Internet portal Eric Topol expressed his opinion, according to which the existing methods of screening for mutations associated with cancer risk generally do not meet the objectives.

27.11.2013
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Is the harm of saturated fats exaggerated?

The health risks posed by saturated fats contained in foods such as butter, cakes and fatty meats are overstated and demonized, says a British cardiologist.

28.10.2013
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Hamburger, almost identical to the natural one

Last Monday in London there was an event that is called "historic", "epoch-making" and "turning point": a person for the first time tasted a hamburger with "cultured meat" identical to beef.

12.08.2013
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Do omega-3 fatty acids increase the risk of prostate cancer?

As the lead author of the study noted, the results obtained contradict the generally accepted opinion about the positive effect of omega-3 fatty acids on health precisely because of their anti-inflammatory and, accordingly, oncoprotective effects.

11.07.2013
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A head transplant?

Professor Sergio Canavero from the University of Turin published an article in Surgical Neurology International, in which he justified the possibility and technically described the process of human head transplantation.

02.07.2013