Japanese oncologists said they have successfully tested the diagnosis of cancer using urine analysis, TASS reports citing the Hitachi company. So far, Japanese scientists have been able to determine the presence of breast and colon cancer using a new method. During the experiment, researchers isolated ten substances that are tumor markers in the urine, and then compared the test results of sick and healthy people.

The Independent Monitoring Foundation “Health” asks Russians to answer questions about the availability and quality of medical care. The Health Foundation intends to study how the situation with the provision of medical care has changed over the past three years. To do this, the foundation’s experts plan to interview as many Russians as possible about the availability of diagnostics, the shortage of specialists in district clinics and other health problems.

The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill allowing the installation of ramps for people with disabilities without the consent of the general meeting of homeowners in an apartment building. The bill clarifies: if it is necessary to adapt common property for unhindered access of disabled people to residential premises, then a meeting of premises owners may not be held.

Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Georgy Fedorov addressed the State Duma and the Government of the Russian Federation with a proposal to establish the post of commissioner for the protection of the rights of pensioners. As reported by Interfax, Fedorov believes that pensioners should have a personal defender in legal and social matters.

In the Chelyabinsk region, officials denied an orphan the right to housing because he was registered in a dilapidated house, the press service of the prosecutor's office reports . The Ministry of Social Relations of the Chelyabinsk Region for a long time refused to provide housing to an 18-year-old orphan, explaining that she already had registration in an apartment in the village of Krutoyarsky, Oktyabrsky District.

Ilya Fomintsev, Director of the Cancer Prevention Fund, tells why everyone should definitely do screening, and how this will reduce mortality in Russia Help not to help in vain - Your fund seeks to change the entire system of combating oncosauriums. This is a multicomponent work, complex, huge. How did you decide on this? - I graduated from the medical faculty in Mordovia and came to St. Petersburg in residency. He wanted to become an oncologist and became him.

In Yekaterinburg, a little girl died in a hospital after spending a year and a half in a coma. According to the E1.ru portal, the girl fell into a coma in January 2015 after an appointment with the dentist. A girl born in 2012 was treated for dental caries in hospital No. 9 under general anesthesia. While under anesthesia, the child suffered irreversible brain damage and has been unconscious since February 2015.

The court of the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region, sentenced a teacher accused of seducing a schoolchild, RIA Novosti reports . The court found 28-year-old teacher Angelina Dorofeeva guilty of indecent assault on a person under 16 years of age. The woman was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment with a three-year probationary period and a three-year ban on teaching.

About two million citizens of the Russian Federation were not allowed to travel abroad due to loan debts, RBC reports , citing data from the Federal Bailiff Service. From January to May of this year alone, the travel of at least 157 thousand debtors was restricted. This is 80% more than in the same period in 2015. In total, 392 thousand Russians were not released abroad in the first five months of this year. The majority of debtors (46%) do not pay alimony or do not repay the loan debt (40%).

A few months ago, the St. Petersburg Center for children with autistic spectrum disorders was at risk of closing, but it managed to save it, however, only half. To understand how this happened, “such things” decided to look at the situation with their own eyes On the embankment of the Obvodny Canal among the endless flow of cars, five buildings of elementary school - kindergarten No.