In the regions, cases of refusals to receive drugs for patients with rare diseases have become more frequent. This was reported by Medvestnik with reference to the head of the Union of Patients and Patient Organizations for Rare Diseases Denis Belyakov. “We now have a lot of refusals regarding drug supply. The other day, for example, I was informed about a case in which a clinic in Nizhny Novgorod refused to issue prescriptions, citing lack of funding.

The Ministry of Labor plans to compensate disabled people for the costs of maintaining a guide dog. RIA Novosti reports this. Compensation can be received regardless of whether a disabled person received a dog through the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) or bought it independently. “The draft resolution proposes to pay compensation for the costs of maintaining a guide dog, regardless of how the disabled person received the dog for use,” the agency quotes the words of a department representative.

About three years ago, by the will of chance, I met Movlid and his mother is dramatically. This is a Chechen family from Dagestan. When Movlid was five years old, he was seriously ill: acute myeloblastic leukemia, without bone marrow transplantation cannot be cured We help Advita help Movlid was in St. Petersburg, at the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology named after R.M. Gorbacheva. Movlid got one of the most severe types of leukemia, which only exists.

Sociologists from the Levada Center found that 50% of Russians could remember the events of August 19-21, 1991, while 48% do not remember or do not know what happened then, the organization said . Over the past year, the number of Russians who assess the coup as “a tragic event that had disastrous consequences for the country and people” has decreased (30% now versus 41% in 2015).

Oxford University scientists have named cancer the leading cause of death in 12 Western European countries. Lenta.ru reports this with reference to a publication in the European Heart Journal. According to researchers, cancer has overtaken cardiovascular diseases in this indicator. Heart attacks and strokes cause more than four million deaths in Europe each year, but this figure has begun to fall thanks to efforts by health organizations to combat heart disease.

On VKontakte there are hundreds of communities where it is accepted to boast of bones and call yourself butterflies. Teenagers from all over Russia hate their body, strive for the ideal of a weight of 35 kilograms and adhere to the principle "to be thin, we must suffer" “I want to approach the mirror and count my ribs. Stroke the waist and bones of the pelvis. Enough with fragile legs-fans, expressive collarbones.

In several areas of the capital, streets were flooded as a result of the rains. Emergency Situations Ministry employees evacuated about 200 people from flooded vehicles, including buses and minibuses, TASS reports . According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, car traffic in the northeast of the city is temporarily blocked due to the Yauza River overflowing its banks. “As a result of the river overflowing, serious flooding of the roadway occurred.

A court in the Trans-Baikal Territory has recovered a million rubles in compensation in favor of a family whose child died in a maternity hospital due to a medical error. Mediazona reports this. In September 2013, Olesya Golubeva was admitted to the maternity ward of the Aginsk District Hospital. The woman was bleeding heavily, but hospital staff did not attach any importance to this.

The human rights organization Legal Initiative presented a report on the practice of female circumcision in some highland and lowland areas of the Republic of Dagestan. The authors of the report, Yulia Antonova and Saida Sirazhudinova, claim that girls under the age of three (in rare cases up to 12) are subjected to female circumcision in families living in remote, hard-to-reach settlements.

The governor of the Novosibirsk region banned migrants with patents from working in a number of positions. The text of the resolution is available on the regional government website. The resolution prohibits in 2016 the employment of foreign citizens who have labor patents. Migrants are prohibited from working in education and in children's camps, and are prohibited from driving buses, taxis and any passenger transport.

Who and why is subject to the most lethal mental disorder - anorexia, told Svetlana Bronnikova, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, founder of the Center for Intuitive nutrition and therapy for eating disorders of eating behavior - How to distinguish a girl who is just losing weight, from the one who is sick with anorexia? - It is very difficult to distinguish by external signs.

The Foundation for Supporting the Development of Sports for Disabled People “Fulcrum” and residents of St. Petersburg raised funds for a sports wheelchair for athlete Konstantin Afinogenov. Fontanka reports this with reference to the fund. Konstantin is a prize-winner of all-Russian and international wheelchair tennis tournaments. He has been involved in this sport since 2009. Afinogenov's stroller fell into disrepair and was repaired four times.

Ballerina of the Omsk State Musical Theater Nina Malyarenko saved a girl who was drowning in the Irtysh, writes “New Omsk”. Malyarenko said that on August 14 she was vacationing with her parents, who live in the village of Rybachye, located on the banks of the Irtysh River. While walking, the girl heard a cry for help from the water. “At first they decided that the children were playing around.

A resident of Magnitogorsk, Igor Gubanov, cut off his second finger, demanding that the rape of his wife be investigated at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, writes Znak.com. According to the human rights foundation Public Verdict, Gubanov promised to cut off one finger per week until an investigation into the rape of his wife was carried out. In January 2016, Gubanov and his wife Salima Mukhamedyanova were taken to the Magnitogorsk police station for violating the silence regime.