In Astana, the girl underwent a bone marrow transplant. The donor was a man from Kirov. Rusfond reports this. Doctors diagnosed a 15-year-old girl Inkar from Kazakhstan with acute myeloblastic leukemia. The only chance of salvation for her was a bone marrow transplant. A donor for Inkar was found using the Vasya Perevoshchikov National Bone Marrow Donor Registry in a matter of days. On May 13, Inkar doctors contacted the donor base, and a week later the sample was sent from Kirov to Astana.

Volga animal rights activists are trying to rescue animals from a psychoneurological boarding school, writes Notepad. Activists discovered that the animals kept in the facility for animal therapy of patients are in terrible condition. One of the animal rights activists rescued a ferret from a boarding school mini-zoo. According to the girl, the animal was near death.

Researchers from Tufts University in the US have developed threads that will allow patients to take medical indicators. This is reported by N+1 with reference to a publication in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering. “Smart” threads are made from the fibers of ordinary medical threads, as well as thin sensor threads woven into them. Depending on their properties, the threads change electrical conductivity.

The palliative care department of the Republican Oncology Dispensary in Simferopol is experiencing funding problems, which is why terminally ill patients do not receive enough medicine and are in difficult living conditions, writes Arguments of the Week - Crimea. The head of the department, Alexander Filenko, said that funding for one bed in the Simferopol hospice has decreased over two years from three thousand rubles per day to 1,800 rubles. According to him, receipts are irregular.

Roszdravnadzor has authorized the supply of the anti-inflammatory drug Kuprenil to Russia, Interfax reports . “As of July 19, 2016, Teva LLC has a sufficient supply of the specified drug for shipment to distributors. Shipments to the main distributors are planned for the current week,” says a letter from the official representative and importer of products, Teva LLC. Roszdravnadzor explained that supplies of Kuprenil in tablet form have been resumed since July 19.

Russian and German scientists have developed silicon nanoparticles that can penetrate cancer cells and kill them without harming the rest of the body. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the press service of Moscow State University. Lyubov Osminkina and a group of researchers from Moscow State University and the Institute of Photonic Technologies in Jena discovered which types of particles are quickly eliminated from the body and do not harm it.

A disabled person from Angarsk, who survived several strokes and operations, is making a hike in support of people with disabilities. This was reported by Vesti Irkutsk. 65-year-old Alexander Varenkov has had a non-working disability group for more than thirty years, the publication notes. He suffered several strokes and many operations, and suffered a coma. For five years, Varenkov was paralyzed, but with the help of regular training he managed to get back on his feet.

A hunger strike is taking place in the Buryat village of Severomuisk - 13 residents of the BAM zone are demanding help from the authorities in relocating. TASS reports this. “We have been fasting for a week now, since July 14th. There are four people in our group whose houses burned down in two fires in June. In total, there are 35 families of fire victims in Severomuisk who were left without a roof over their heads.

The UN recognized Russia with an epicenter of the world epidemic of HIV. Meanwhile, people living with HIV cannot get their medicines. Merps with therapy threaten not only the lives of the patients themselves In AIDS-centers-queues. People living with HIV, to whom the state guarantees antiretroviral therapy, cannot get their drugs. Interior interruptions threaten not only the lives of patients themselves. Interruptions contribute to the spread of the epidemic.

Murmansk human rights activist Violetta Grudina appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint about an ineffective investigation into the attack on the LGBT center in the spring of 2015, reports the 7x7 portal. “The national courts made an unfair decision, the authorities did not conduct an effective and timely investigation, thereby violating my rights and freedoms. Therefore, the only option for protecting interests was to appeal to the ECHR.

Apartment fraud, the neighbors survived from the communal apartment, just nowhere to go - about 60 thousand homeless people in St. Petersburg, and most of them found themselves on the street throughout their fault. Grigory Sverdlin, Director of the Overnight charity organization, believes that everyone can become homeless Help the hip help I began to help the homeless by chance. I graduated from the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University and worked at the bank in parallel.

In Krasnoyarsk, witnesses detained a driver who hit a pensioner at a pedestrian crossing, writes Newslab.ru. The motorist who caused the accident tried to escape from the crime scene, but other drivers caught up with him and called the police. On July 19, in the city center, a Lada car hit a pensioner crossing the road. The incident was recorded by another motorist's dash cam. After the collision, the driver of the Lada tried to escape from the crime scene.