Russia takes the first place in the world as far as the amount of smokers per capita is concerned, Deputy Head of the Duma’s Health and Safety Committee said Wednesday.
Popularity: 1% [?]
May 24, 2007Olga Varnavskya, an employee of dermatovenerologic clinic, issued HIV-negative certificates for everyone who was ready to pay 1500 rubles ($60) for it, Pravda.Ru reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
May 22, 2007A Russian teen travelled halfway around the world so U.S. doctors could remove a brain stem tumour but the risky surgery left him brain dead, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 8% [?]
April 20, 2007A Russian man who brought his 16-year-old son to Oklahoma City for brain surgery has had his visiting hours restricted after allegedly attacking a nurse, the Associated Press news agency reported on Wednesday.
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March 15, 2007The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is marking the 10th anniversary of the murder of six of its international workers by unidentified gunmen in the village of Novye Atagi in Chechnya, RFE/RL reported Monday.
Popularity: 1% [?]
December 18, 200625 school children got poisoned after taking pills in southwest Russia, the Emergencies Ministry’s city department said on Friday, the Xinhua news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
December 15, 2006Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company, announced today that it has acquired a 51% controlling interest in ZiO Zdorovje, a leading Russian pharmaceutical manufacturer.
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 21, 2006The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security Mikhail Grishankov reported that Russia is going to increase state allocations to fight AIDS by 15 percent next year.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 8, 2006A Moscow-based doctor has launched production of individually tailored condoms, according to a reported posted by Ananova.com.
Moscow urologist Dr. Pyotr Pomozov started making condoms to order after a number of patients complained they had problems finding ones that fitted.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 7, 2006A Russian court ordered a regional blood bank Monday to pay thousands of dollars to a young woman who contracted AIDS through a transfusion.
The woman, who received a transfusion at a maternity hospital, could get 10 million rubles ($373,000).
The blood bank served a network of hospitals in the Voronezh region southwest of Moscow. A regular donor who was HIV-positive allegedly gave blood eight times before the virus was detected.
While blood products with HIV may have gone to 200 recipients, only one case of AIDS has been detected so far.
Popularity: 3% [?]
October 31, 2006
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