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Cholesterol and atherosclerosis: the investigation is not over

High-density lipoproteins ("good" cholesterol) are fully justified, and even recognized as useful. Low-density lipoproteins are considered to be responsible for the development of atherosclerosis. But this verdict is also subject to appeal.

13.07.2009
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Prostatitis, sexuality and psychosomatics

The psychosomatic model allows for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of prostatitis formation, sexual disorders and their relationship, allows for more effective elimination of both, affecting the common causes that lead to them.

23.06.2009
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Health insurance: fighting fraudsters

At a time when doctors are robbing their clients, the companies they work for are stealing from the country's budget. American medicine loses from $77 billion to $270 billion every year as a result of fraud.

22.06.2009
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Lose weight – harm your health?

During the examination of the Scientific Research Center of Independent Consumer Expertise "TEST", it turned out that out of 16 randomly selected weight loss products, 13 pose a high and very high risk to health. It is necessary to fight obesity, but it is important to find really effective ways, and not to work for charlatans.

27.05.2009
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Nutricosmetics: Beauty support group

The fact that we lack vitamins and trace elements is, unfortunately, an immutable fact. We see the consequences of the deficit ourselves: dry skin, fine wrinkles, hair losing its former splendor... So it is necessary to supplement even the healthiest diet. And for the sake of beauty, and for the sake of health. Such supplements take on the role of a "support group" and help us to preserve what is given by nature for longer.

06.05.2009
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Dietary supplements: fraud in law

Transcript of reports by the Chairman of the Public Council for the Protection of Patients' Rights at Roszdravnadzor, President of the League for Patient Protection A.V. Saversky, President of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists K.D. Danishevsky and Executive Director of the Interregional Public Organization "Society for Pharmacoeconomical Research" O.V. Borisenko at the press conference "Bioactive additives: who legalized fraud and how?".

24.04.2009
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State medicine: the condition is serious, the prognosis is unfavorable

State medicine is turning into a "lazy monopoly", which even the care of some consumers does not force to change. The more doctors and places in hospitals in the region, the worse the health of the population. The state is going to pay not for the maintenance of beds, but for services performed within the framework of the compulsory health insurance system. But even this will not create incentives to improve the quality of patient care.

09.04.2009
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Russia is the birthplace of a healthy lifestyle

The familiar term "healthy lifestyle" has appeared quite recently. Unfortunately, where it was invented – in Russia – the majority of the population does less to preserve their health than residents of countries with a much longer life expectancy.

08.04.2009
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Prevention of stroke and heart attack: one tablet is enough

The composition of the miracle pill includes aspirin, three drugs to reduce blood pressure and a statin that reduces cholesterol levels in the blood. According to researchers, the use of a new pill that reduces blood pressure and cholesterol can potentially reduce the number of cardiovascular diseases by 62%, and the number of heart attacks by 48%.

02.04.2009
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Prevention of AIDS in Moscow

The city will not support programs to reduce harm from drug use and spread knowledge about condoms. Instead, at HIV prevention classes in schools, children will be introduced to Russian culture, religion and family values and will be told about the usefulness of sports and the harm of casual sexual relations.

01.04.2009
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Cancer treatment: the enemy is gradually losing ground

Many types of cancer are curable today, but the success of treatment depends on how much money is allocated for treatment by local health authorities and at what stage the patient is diagnosed. The chances of a complete cure increase if the disease can be detected at an early stage.

25.03.2009
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Pros and cons of prostate screening

We have to admit that it is still impossible to unequivocally answer the question whether older men need to regularly check the level of prostate-specific antigen. Probably, these disputes will continue until more reliable methods of mass detection of prostate tumors and prediction of their aggressiveness appear.

24.03.2009
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The dead loop of free fatty acids

Obesity is the main cause of the plague of the 21st century, metabolic syndrome – a complex of biochemical, hormonal and clinical pathologies leading to insulin resistance, or type II diabetes mellitus, when insulin is produced in the body, but the cells are not sensitive to it. Numerous pathologies associated with obesity are caused by elevated levels of free fatty acids in the blood.

18.03.2009
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Health of the nation: Mission impossible

The consequence of inflation and wage cuts was the health of Russians, the improvement of which can be forgotten in the near future. Leonid Roshal, Director of the Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology, believes that given the recent changes in the economy, "there can be no improvement in the health of the nation in principle. We need to try to maintain the state that we have at the moment."

18.03.2009
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To smoke or not to smoke?

According to WHO, tobacco is the cause of death of every second smoker. In 1990, 35% of all deaths of middle-aged men (35-69 years old) in economically developed countries were caused by smoking. During the twentieth century, tobacco killed about 100 million people – this is more than died in World War II.

16.03.2009
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Alcohol issue

The National Institute for Research on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the USA proposed to diagnose "alcoholism" by answering a single question. You can answer it, and if you wish, check out the questionnaire of ten points.

13.03.2009