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Mexican authorities Thursday recovered dangerous radioactive material from a cancer-treating medical device that was on a stolen truck and abandoned in a field, the interior ministry said.

• 06 декабря 2013, 16:46

A drug used to treat advanced breast and colorectal cancers has been linked to sometimes fatal skin reactions in patients, its Swiss manufacturer and Canadian health officials said Wednesday.

• 05 декабря 2013, 11:50

Respiratory system illnesses will be treated with the use of balloon sinuplasty technique in Kazakhstan.

• 03 декабря 2013, 15:07

Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the importance of Bolashak Presidential Scholarship and the effect it had on the development of cardiac surgery in Kazakhstan.

• 03 декабря 2013, 13:44

Bolashak scholarship gave an opportunity to children of unemployed and retired Kazakhstan nationals to study abroad.

• 30 ноября 2013, 23:58

American surgeon Oscar Frazier M.D. gave high praise to the professional level of Kazakhstan surgeons.

• 29 ноября 2013, 13:59

The train driver Berik Kulbarakov who suffered burns in the oil tanker explosion near Aktau has been transferred to the Burn Center in Astana.

• 25 ноября 2013, 14:44

A professor from Lithuania has made an advanced weight loss surgery in Almaty.

• 22 ноября 2013, 17:37

Penal Reform International will change the lives of prisoners in Kazakhstan, helping the country in its effort to humanize the penal system.

• 16 ноября 2013, 02:12

Cynthia Carrion-Norton flits high-heeled around the Philippine capital with energy levels belying her years, thankful for a controversial treatment she highly recommends to fellow sixty-somethings.

• 10 ноября 2013, 10:17

An outbreak of polio in Syria poses a threat to Europe, where the crippling and potentially fatal disease was declared eradicated in 2002, doctors warned on Friday.

• 08 ноября 2013, 12:38

A single dose -- rather than the recommended three -- of a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease HPV may be enough to ward off cervical cancer.

• 04 ноября 2013, 17:27

Germany on Friday became the first European country to allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female, but advocates urged further reforms.

• 02 ноября 2013, 12:52

Mowing the lawn or washing the car are among simple activities that can reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by almost 30 percent in people over 60.

• 29 октября 2013, 13:27

Chinese hospital staff protested on Monday after a patient killed one doctor and wounded two more, local media said, in the latest violence to hit the country's overburdened medical sector.

• 28 октября 2013, 17:57

A trio of American scientists won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for pioneering work on the body's cell transport system.

• 08 октября 2013, 14:10

Opening a nuclear medicine center in Almaty will cost around 9 billion tenge ($60 million).

• 02 октября 2013, 11:17

Medical professionals are being massively tested for professional suitability for the first time in Kazakhstan.

• 22 сентября 2013, 16:28

Emergency organ transplantation without notification of the patient’s families, in case they are not immediately available, may be put into a law in Kazakhstan.

• 17 сентября 2013, 15:03

Professor of Vilnius Medical University Yevgenius Lisinskas made the surgery in the Central Clinical Hospital of Almaty.

• 06 сентября 2013, 15:26