In the laboratory of genetic epidemiology of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "MGSC", scientists have developed an algorithm for diagnosing a group of rare diseases, which will allow predicting the course of the disease with 98% confidence. Deputy Director for Scientific and Clinical Work, Head of the Laboratory of Genetic Epidemiology, Professor Rena Zinchenko spoke about this at a press conference in TASS.

In Moscow, the company Gerofarm introduced Russian insulins - analogues of foreign drugs with a similar molecule at the heart of the medicine. Mothers of patients with diabetes are afraid of new drugs, because they did not go through clinical trials on children, although by law the generics should not undergo a check. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Russian insulin The company "Gerofarm" received registration certificates for Biosimilers of Insulin in July 2019.

In the city children's clinical emergency hospital of Novosibirsk, a seven-year-old girl died while waiting for an ambulance. Investigators have begun an investigation, TASS reports , citing the regional Investigative Committee. The Ministry of Health of the Novosibirsk Region said that the child was diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease several years ago. It was accompanied by damage to the heart and other organs, as well as the endocrine system.

Moscow Sobyanin mayor, six months after the start of protests by local residents, admitted that the radiation burial ground was located at the construction site of the southeastern chord-before that the authorities denied that waste was still stored on the territory. However, this is not a solution to the problem: Sergei Sobyanin promised to reclamate the waste only on one section of the slope of the Moscow River, but they are on the other.

Aeroflot passenger Maxim Chumachenko said that two of his cats were seriously injured during the flight and subsequently died, and another was diagnosed with frostbite, reports Baza . The press service of Aeroflot told Takim Dela that the incident was the responsibility of another company. Chumachenko was flying from New York to Sofia with a transfer at Moscow Sheremetyevo. He took with him three American color-point cats.

The head of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko, told Takim Dela about the creation of a bill to help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The first working meeting dedicated to this bill was held in the State Duma. According to Germanenko, the document will amend the Federal Law “On the Basics of Protecting the Health of Citizens of the Russian Federation” so that patients with SMA can receive therapy at the expense of the federal budget.

In Chita, a father with four children lived for three months in an abandoned house without heating. The family was sheltered by local residents who discovered them by chance. According to the ZabTV channel, a Chita resident’s dog ran away during a walk and he and a friend went looking for it in the area of ​​the industrial zone on Ostrov (1st microdistrict). Entering an abandoned house, they saw children washing in a bucket.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin admitted the presence of radioactive waste at the construction site of the South-Eastern Expressway. He promised to organize a program for reclamation of the slope and removal of contaminated soil outside the capital. This is stated on Sobyanin’s website. He stated that there are no alternatives to the construction of the South-East Expressway. But the authorities were faced with a “unique, out-of-the-ordinary problem” - radioactive waste.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers it premature to call the outbreak of pneumonia in China caused by the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV an international emergency. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote about this on Twitter. According to him, the pneumonia outbreak is an emergency for China, but it has not yet become a disaster on an international scale. As of January 23, WHO was aware of 584 cases of the disease, of which 17 were fatal.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin ordered to check the Ministry of Health of Chuvashia after refusing to give the drug Spinraza for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) to seriously ill children. As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia, nine-month-old Mark Piskarev and six-month-old Ivan Semenov did not receive the Spinraza injections they needed.

In the Stavropol Territory, a court declared a pensioner who attacked employees of the Rodina newspaper with a knife insane and sent him for compulsory treatment. This is reported on the website of the regional IC. In May 2019, a resident of Stavropol, Konstantin Sidnev, brought an article about Stalin and Zyuganov to the editorial office of Rodina with a request to publish it in the newspaper.

On February 15-16, the Greenhouse of Social Technologies and Novaya Gazeta will hold the Spotlight 2020 hackathon in St. Petersburg. The winning project will receive financial support in the amount of 110 thousand rubles. Applications are now open. NGOs, social projects, journalists, activists who collect various data - monitoring, statistical, anonymized information about donors, information from open sources are invited to participate.

In the Moscow Museum, the exhibition "Family Values" was opened. The exposition shows how over the past 150 years the Russian family has gone from the traditional patriarchal model to Soviet, and then to modern - with a variety of forms and freedom of personal choice. The curator of the exhibition Polina Zhurakovskaya told “such matters” as the family life of a resident of Moscow would develop, depending on the era.

In Moscow in the morning on Baumanskaya Street, a driver blocked traffic with a truck. He complained that his employer owed him a salary, the Moscow city news agency reported. According to Rostrud, after this the man was paid part of the debt. The Moscow Department of Regional Security and Anti-Corruption said that after the driver communicated with law enforcement officers, traffic on Baumanskaya was restored.

The Moscow government has promised to remove radiation-contaminated soil in the construction area of ​​the South-Eastern Expressway outside the city. A representative of the Pechatniki district initiative group, Ekaterina Maksimova, told Takim Dela that the activists do not plan to stop their round-the-clock vigil. “We are protecting the southeastern slope of the Moscow River.