In the United States, a seven-year-old boy successfully survived a lobectomy with the removal of a third of the right hemisphere of the brain. Doctors at Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania) took this step in order to save a child from epileptic seizures. As reported by ScienceAlert, the child had his right occipital and temporal lobes, which are responsible for vision, removed.

Volunteers began to restore the medieval tower complex “Erzi” in the Dzheirakhsky district of Ingushetia, TASS reports . This is part of a volunteer project involving 120 people from 18 regions. During the first week, 15 young people will carry out restoration work in the Erzi complex. At the next stage, volunteers will organize environmental actions on the Volga. The volunteer project “Beacons of Friendship - Towers of the Caucasus” started in 2016.

In Chukotka, in the village of Lavrentiya, Russian border guards detained a US citizen who illegally crossed the border - he sailed by boat from Alaska. As Interfax reports , citing a source familiar with the situation, the American was fishing and hunting on the coast of Alaska, but decided to sail to China and ended up in Russia. He only had his driver's license with him. The detainee asked to be granted political asylum in Russia. In the near future he will be taken to Anadyr for trial.

In Kaluga, a woman who works as a trolleybus driver herself filled up a road pothole that was interfering with traffic. Nika TV reports this. The hole at the corner of Moskovskaya and Kubyaka streets bothered trolleybus drivers for a year and a half - it was impossible to get around it, so the transport was distorted and breakdowns occurred. Despite complaints from motorists, the area was not repaired even in a targeted manner.

Regional ministries of health and maternity hospital administrations decided to introduce a temporary moratorium on abortion operations as part of the “Give me life!” campaign, Kommersant writes . A temporary ban on abortion is announced in the Primorsky Territory, Yakutia and the Ryazan Region.

In Magadan, a court fined two residents who were dissatisfied with the work of Mayor Yuri Grishan under the article “Insulting a government official.” As reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Magadan Region, from January 31 to February 4, men born in 1979 and 1987 under different nicknames from their phones wrote insults to the mayor in the Whatsapp groups “Mayor - resign” and “Snowy roads of Magadan” because for poor performance of his official duties.

The Moscow prosecutor's office began an investigation into the guardianship authorities and other departments after the murder of Mikhail Khachaturyan by his three daughters. Interfax reports this. The official representative of the capital's prosecutor's office, Lyudmila Nefedova, said that the results of the investigation into the criminal case of murder are being monitored by the prosecutor's office. Earlier, Sergei Koryshev, the director of the capital’s school No.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Duldurginsky District Court recovered 1.13 million rubles from the hospital in favor of a local resident whose wife died due to improper treatment, lawyer Anastasia Kopteeva, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told reporters. A criminal case has been opened for causing death by negligence.

On the night of August 3, unknown persons set off an explosion under the door of the office of the regional branch of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR), Kaluga News reports . The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced its intention to initiate a case under the article “Hooliganism”. As a result of the explosion, no one was injured, but the outer cladding of the building near the entrance was damaged, several slabs flew out, and the glass of the front door was broken.

39% of Russians consider vegetarianism harmful to health, reports the results of a survey by VTsIOM. At the same time, half of the Russian residents surveyed (50%) believe that vegetarianism is a diet without meat and fish products, another 45% claim that it is only plant foods. Of those surveyed who said they knew about vegetarianism, only 1% adhere to this diet, 98% eat meat and fish, and another 1% found it difficult to decide on their food preferences.

In the village of Urazovo, Belgorod Region, after the murder and rape of a child, local residents tried to organize pogroms in the houses of the Roma diaspora. TASS reports this. At the end of July, the body of a murdered and raped nine-year-old girl was found in the village. The police detained a suspect in the crime - a 30-year-old stateless man. During interrogation, he fully admitted his guilt.

In 2017, 28% of HIV-infected Russians had a decrease in their viral load. This means that 229 thousand patients have a minimal risk of developing AIDS and are practically safe for their partners. As the Ministry of Health told Izvestia, such results were achieved thanks to antiretroviral therapy, which is paid for by the state. By 2020, the agency expects to bring the level of virus activity to minimum values ​​in 90% of patients.

The Need Help Foundation is announcing a fundraiser for services for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Services for helping people with ALS in Moscow (based on the St. Alexy Central Clinical Hospital) and St. Petersburg (based on GAOORDI) are financed by the Live Now Foundation. In total, more than 700 patients from all over Russia are registered with the services.

The family of an Omsk resident, who, after an attack of pancreatitis, lies in an induced coma in a German clinic, turned to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Emergency Situations for help - the man needs an expensive operation, but his medical insurance has expired. The Ministry of Health told TD that they were deciding the issue of transporting the man to Russia.

In St. Petersburg, the Gorelektrotrans enterprise suspended trolleybus driver Dina Garina from work due to a criminal record for an extremist post on VKontakte. Fontanka reports this. The girl published an internal document of Gorelektrotrans, which states that the police checked her “for involvement in an organized criminal group” and ordered her not to be allowed to work related to transport security. In 2016, Garina was sentenced to probation because of a post on VKontakte.