On February 4, World Cancer Day, RakFond opened applications for participation in a research competition in the field of radiation therapy in oncology. The collection is open until May 31. Applications are accepted from medical researchers and scientific workers working in Russian organizations. Their projects should be aimed at conducting research in the field of radiation therapy for cancer.

A fantastic film “Coma” was released on Russian screens - a picture of a world of memories where you can get only by falling into a deep unconscious state. “Such things” decided to find out what a coma actually is “Imagine that you are leaving the house or from the bar where you and I are sitting now,” says actor Rostislav Gulbis, who played one of the main roles in the film “Coma”.

Nikita Polodo works as a sound engineer, likes to go fishing and cook, even when he returns from work to midnight. A year ago, due to cancer, he was completely removed the stomach. Nikita could not find detailed recommendations about a diet after a gastroectomy, so I decided to collect them myself - and created the site onkodieta.ru , where he publishes his recipes. Every day he is written by people who have discovered stomach cancer: they ask for advice and share experiences.

On the Russian version of the IKEA store website, along with a selection of furniture and decorative items, a section “Home with a Friend” has appeared, where you can learn the history of animals from shelters, rehabilitation centers and relief funds. Below the photos of the animals there is brief information, and by following the link you can go to the pet’s personal page on the shelter’s website and learn more about it.

The founder and president of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Theodor Shanin, died in Moscow at the age of 89. This is reported on the university website. “Theodore made enormous contributions to peasant studies, historical sociology and epistemology. He played a major role in the development of new forms of academic education in Russia.

The Izgelek Charitable Foundation provides assistance to children and adults under 35 years of age living in the Republic of Bashkortostan within the framework of two programs - “Ambulance” and “Road to Peace”. Through the Ambulance program, the Foundation helps patients with cancer, children with congenital pathologies, young people with type 1 diabetes mellitus whose disability has been lifted.

Deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council Natalya Pinus found out that over the past two years at the Central Clinical Hospital in Akademgorodok, the mortality rate on the first day of admission to the hospital has increased by almost 50%. Pinus attributes this to staff reductions and a lack of hospital beds. She made such conclusions based on data received from the Ministry of Health.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court upheld the sentence of the head of the urology department of the Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Hospital No. 4. The court of first instance fined the doctor 3 million rubles for a bribe given to him by a conscript, TASS reports. According to the FSB, the doctor gave the conscript a false diagnosis for 50 thousand rubles.

The international human rights group “Agora” and the public organization for combating Internet censorship “Roskomsvoboda” presented the report “Internet Freedom 2019: Plan “Fortress””, according to which the number of regions where freedom is restricted has increased again. The authors of the report note that in 2019, the number of criminal cases initiated in connection with Internet activity “seriously decreased” (from 384 cases in 2018 to 200 in 2019).

The inpatient hospital of the children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse" received a license for medical activities, the director of the medical institution, Maria Rachitskaya, told Takim Dela. According to Rachitskaya, the hospital will now be able to open to receive children - this is expected to happen in two weeks. The hospital has 15 rooms and can accommodate 15 patients and their parents at the same time.

Military investigators did not initiate a criminal case into the beating of the editor of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency Svyatoslav Pavlov, the press service of the Zone of Law reported. He complained that at the Bastion-2019 extreme journalism course, during hostage-taking training, he and other training participants were beaten.

In Ufa, a passer-by saved two children who were lured into an apartment by a stranger and ordered to undress, threatening to kill them. During the fight, he inflicted fatal injuries on the attacker, for which the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him.

The Investigative Committee for Chuvashia opened a criminal case against an investigator of the drug control department of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, who tried to sell more than a kilogram of narcotic substances. This is reported on the department's website. In January, in Cheboksary, a police officer handed over 1.1 kilograms of drugs to his friend for sale. He estimated the transaction amount at 300 thousand rubles.

The Russian Ministry of Health is preparing for the possible large-scale spread of coronavirus in Russia, TASS reports . According to Deputy Minister of Health Sergei Kraevoy, 1.2 billion rubles have been allocated from the budget to prevent deaths due to complications.

The Bashkortostan prosecutor's office demanded that the public organization "Bashkort" be recognized as extremist and its activities banned. The corresponding claim was sent to the Supreme Court of the republic.