A court in the state of Oregon, USA, granted the petition of 52-year-old Jamie Shoup and recognized him as a member of the third gender, the Guardian writes . Shoup now officially has the right not to define himself as either a man or a woman. This is the first precedent in US history when the court recognized the right of a citizen to break away from traditional gender coordinates.

What is better-to try to control every step of your narcomaniac child or write a statement to the police? Co -dependence is a condition in which there are relatives and friends of drug addicts and alcoholics. Parents of addicts tell through which hell they had to go with their children, and the psychologist comments on their actions Marina, engineer I raised my daughter alone. We lived together - talked like two best friends. Could laugh and fool around at midnight.

Psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists about what is the cause of teenage suicides, and why it is so important to talk with children The Help Charity Foundation and the information portal “Such Affairs”, together with the Public Opinion Foundation, held a round table “Teenage suicides in Russia” on June 1. The moderator of the event is the editor -in -chief of the MEL.FM educational portal Nikita Belogolovtsev.

State Duma deputies adopted in the third reading laws decriminalizing a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports . The bill states that articles on battery, malicious evasion of alimony payments, use of a knowingly forged document and petty theft will be removed from the Criminal Code. If these crimes are committed for the first time, the offender will bear administrative liability.

On June 21, the world celebrates the day against ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). In many countries around the world, including Russia, June has been declared the month of raising awareness about ALS: round tables, thematic seminars and events are organized to support people with this incurable disease. In Russia, patients with ALS and their loved ones are helped by the Live Now Foundation.

One of the children drowning on Syamozero was able to get through to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, but they didn’t believe him and mistook his cry for help for pampering, Marina Nefedova, a teacher from Moscow, said on Facebook. Nefedova, together with the mother of one of her students, went to meet the children who had returned from Karelia. On her page she gives stories of several surviving children evacuated from a Karelian camp.

Medical assistance was provided to a boy who was suffocating from Quincke's edema at Sheremetyevo airport 50 minutes after the attack began, the Mednovosti portal writes . According to the child's father, airport staff did not take any action and then incorrectly showed him the way to the first aid station. The ambulance arrived after the man called the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The website Change.org published a collection of signatures in defense of the detained students of the Petrozavodsk Pedagogical College, who worked as instructors at the Park-Hotel Syamozero camp, whose students died during a storm on the lake. The authors of the appeal refer to a post by a college student who also interned at this camp. In the recording, the girl explains that they were forced, under threat of expulsion, to go to Syamozero, although they had no experience as an instructor.

Scientists at the Israeli Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School have developed an automatic program capable of diagnosing cancer, Science Daily reports . The program developed by scientists uses speech and image recognition techniques to diagnose cancer; in the future, full-fledged artificial intelligence will be created on its basis.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a device that can drain some of the food from the stomachs of obese patients. This is stated on the department's website. The system, called AspireAssist, consists of a thin tube implanted in the stomach and attached to an external port. Before issuing its approval, the FDA reviewed results from testing the device on 111 patients.

The World Health Organization may advocate limiting the sale or completely banning thin cigarettes, Kommersant writes . The publication obtained a draft report proposing a ban on a number of design elements of tobacco products - in particular, the placement of aromatic capsules and a reduction in the diameter of cigarettes. The report is due to be presented at the next Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Delhi.

The Ministry of Health intends to abolish medical certificates for admission to university. The released funds are planned to be used to support people who have suffered a heart attack, said Oleg Salagay, a representative of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Health.