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US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with no complications.

• 17 апреля 2013, 17:43

Kazakhstan's Family Law is the most democratic one in the world: Director of the Reproductive Medicine Institute.

• 05 апреля 2013, 17:15

People who had surgeries on artificial heart implantation gathered in Astana to discuss problems of chronic cardiac insufficiency.

• 05 апреля 2013, 14:42

Dementia costs more each year in the United States than cancer or heart disease, with annual costs ranging from $157 billion to $215 billion.

• 04 апреля 2013, 14:35

A rating of the most hazardous fatal diseases has been made in Kazakhstan.

• 03 апреля 2013, 13:56

Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov instructed to tackle the deficit of cardiac surgeons within two years.

• 01 апреля 2013, 19:28

Besides, around 20 old hospitals will be demolished and new buildings will be erected to replace them.

• 01 апреля 2013, 17:45

Scientists said Sunday they had found mutations in 26 genes that may cause oesophageal cancer, a breakthrough they hope will lead to new drugs for the deadly and increasingly frequent disease.

• 25 марта 2013, 12:22

Kazakhstan anti-smoking coalition supports draft law banning tobacco sales within 500m from educational, healthcare and sport facilities.

• 22 марта 2013, 13:34

Physical therapy is often as effective as knee surgery when treating patients with tears to the meniscus or arthritis.

• 21 марта 2013, 12:19

Taking vitamin D supplements in pregnancy seems to make no difference to a child's bone health, in contrast to guidelines in some countries.

• 19 марта 2013, 14:22

A growing number of US parents oppose doctors' recommendations to vaccinate teenage girls against human papillomavirus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer.

• 18 марта 2013, 11:59

A small French study of 14 HIV patients who have remained healthy for years after stopping drug treatment offers fresh evidence that early medical intervention may lead to a "functional cure" for AIDS.

• 15 марта 2013, 14:30

A SARS-like virus that has struck in Britain and the Middle East has claimed a new victim in Saudi Arabia, bringing the global toll from the mystery illness to nine.

• 13 марта 2013, 17:29

Quitting smoking sharply reduces the risk of heart disease -- even if kicking the habit comes along with a few extra pounds.

• 13 марта 2013, 15:40

Gains in life expectancy across Europe could be reversed if cash-strapped governments cut health budgets.

• 13 марта 2013, 14:54

A donor kidney has been transplanted to a patient with renal failure for the first time in South Kazakhstan.

• 11 марта 2013, 15:38

The volume of Kazakhstan pharmaceutical market makes $1.2 billion; it has been maintaining an upward trend for several years already.

• 11 марта 2013, 15:24

A single dose of an experimental anti-inflammatory treatment reduces heart muscle damage during an angioplasty operation to open blocked arteries.

• 11 марта 2013, 12:15

A decade ago, a highly contagious and deadly new illness sent people worldwide scrambling to cancel flights and holidays as schools closed and sales of surgical masks spiked.

• 10 марта 2013, 16:44