News about Medicine

Think twice about surgery on the weekend: study People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have an 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than those treated on a Monday.
29 May 2013 16:14
First 'methadone baby' born in Aktobe A man who used to take heroine and replaced it with methadone (a synthetic substitute of heroine) has had a son.
27 May 2013 20:12
84-y.o. patient undergoes unique low-traumatic surgery in Almaty A neurosurgeon from South Korea and Director of the International Medical Center Yim Dong Hwang made 6 surgeries for osteochondrosis, traumas consequences and other spine pathologies on May 14-17.
20 May 2013 15:46
Kazakhstan-made CT scanner presented at medical equipment exhibition in Almaty The 20th Kazakhstan International Healthcare Exhibition KIHE-2013 was held in Almaty on May 15-17.
20 May 2013 12:18
Kazakhstan microsurgeons tap into face transplantation surgeries Kazakhstan microsurgeons will soon be able to perform face transplantation surgeries: Italian surgeon Salvatore D’Arpe.
22 April 2013 17:41
US hospitals make more money when surgery goes wrong 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 April 2013 17:43
74,000 Malians in Mauritania desert need help: aid group Some 74,000 Malians, who have been displaced by war and ethnic tensions, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania..
12 April 2013 12:04
Asian gecko threatened by medicine trade: TRAFFIC Activists warned Thursday that wild populations of Southeast Asia's striking Tokay Gecko were in danger of being over-hunted for use in traditional medicine in China and other countries.
11 April 2013 12:14
Scientists use 3D printer to make tissue-like material British scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes.
06 April 2013 10:28
Kazakhstan's patient with artificial heart gets married People who had surgeries on artificial heart implantation gathered in Astana to discuss problems of chronic cardiac insufficiency.
05 April 2013 14:42
Dementia costlier than cancer, heart disease: study 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 April 2013 14:35
Kazakhstan Healthcare Ministry makes rating of fatal diseases A rating of the most hazardous fatal diseases has been made in Kazakhstan.
03 April 2013 13:56
Akhmetov wants Kazakhstan to have enough cardiac surgeons in 2 years Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov instructed to tackle the deficit of cardiac surgeons within two years.
01 April 2013 19:28
First donor kidney transplantation made in South Kazakhstan A donor kidney has been transplanted to a patient with renal failure for the first time in South Kazakhstan.
11 March 2013 15:38
Kazakhstan’s pharmaceutical market to grow 15 percent in 2013 The volume of Kazakhstan pharmaceutical market makes $1.2 billion; it has been maintaining an upward trend for several years already.
11 March 2013 15:24
60 artificial heart transplantations scheduled for 2013 in Kazakhstan We have scheduled 60 surgeries on implantation of the artificial heart ventricles: Kazakhstan cardiac surgeon.
07 March 2013 16:49
Kazakhstan National Medical Holding to open clinics for foreigners We would like to inform everyone that we have the centers ready to render services to foreign patients: chairman.
07 March 2013 10:03
Astana to get best oncological center in CIS Kazakhstan Healthcare Ministry’s oncological program envisages opening an oncological center in Nazarbayev University.
06 March 2013 19:16
HIV cured in baby for the first time: scientists Researchers said Sunday they had, for the first time, cured a baby born with HIV -- a development that could help improve treatment of babies infected at birth.
04 March 2013 11:17
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