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Articles with tag "Health"

Emergency Contraceptives Disappear from Russian Pharmacies – Vyorstka

New Health Ministry regulations have sharply curtailed public access to a range of contraceptive medications.
opinion Valery Panyushkin

Russia's Potato Dilemma Risks Causing a Health Crisis

People won't stop eating potatoes because they're too expensive. But they will stop eating more nutritious food, which will cause huge problems.
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Health Ministry Loosens Hospital Regulations Amid Staffing Crisis

Doctors will soon be able to assign some of their responsibilities to paramedics and midwives “in case of understaffing.”
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Antidepressant Sales Reach Record High in Wartime Russia

Russian pharmacies and distributors have faced shortages of the medication due to high demand and the impact of Western sanctions.
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Russia’s HIV Deaths Hit 30K Per Year, Undermining Dwindling Labor Force

The figure continues to rise alongside increasing treatment costs for the government and a lack of early HIV testing.
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Chechnya Opens First Gender-Segregated Pharmacy

The new pharmacy in Grozny is the first of 15 locations that will soon open across the Chechen capital.
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Russia’s Primorye Region Outlaws ‘Coercion’ Into Abortion

The law defines “coercion” as actions like persuasion, bribery, deceit, blackmail or workplace pressure that compel women to terminate a pregnancy...
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Doctors Without Borders Forced to Shut Down Operations in Russia

The aid organization said it was ordered to “deregister” from the Justice Ministry’s database of foreign NGOs, effectively shutting down its operations...
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Covid-19 Cases Surge in Russia as New Variants Drive Infections

Over the past two to three weeks, infections from the KP.3 and LB.1 variants have surged by 100% and 400%, respectively.
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Russians Spend Record $211 Mln on Contraceptives in First Half of 2024 – Vedomosti

Pharmacies linked the uptick in spending on contraceptives to Russians increasingly putting off starting a family amid economic uncertainty.
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‘Traditional’ Values Will Protect Russia From Mpox Outbreak, Top Health Official Says

Also known as monkeypox, the infectious viral disease spreads through close physical and sexual contact.
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Aral Sea Disaster Stunts Youth Development – Study

Scientists found that the polluted environment where the Aral Sea once stood has disrupted the endocrine status of young people living nearby.
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Moscow Police Arrest 3 After Mass Food Poisoning

Health officials said more than 120 people had sought medical help and at least 30 were in intensive care with suspected foodborne botulism.
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Dozens Hospitalized in Moscow Amid Mass Food Poisoning Incident

More than 120 people sought medical help following a suspected outbreak of a rare and extremely dangerous food poisoning, health officials said.
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Moscow's Plans to Build Atop Radioactive Waste Pipes Spark Alarm from Experts, Industry

Thirty-eight years after Chernobyl, careless urban development risks unleashing another radioactive hazard beneath Muscovites’ feet.
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'Dirty as Hell': Coal Dust Chokes Murmansk as Moscow Ramps Up Asia Exports

As the dust fuels public grievances and concerns for human health, the Murmansk Commercial Seaport is busy expanding its operations.
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Antidepressant Sales in Russia Hit 5-Year High – Vedomosti

Russian pharmacies sold 3.6 million packs of antidepressants worth 2.9 billion rubles ($31.3 million) in the first 11 weeks of 2024.
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Black Sky, Gray Snow: Decades of Air Pollution Leave Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Struggling to Breathe

“I have been living in Krasnoyarsk since birth, and I am generally adapted to life here. But lately, even I cannot bear it,” one resident said.
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The Soviets Conducted Dozens of 'Peaceful' Nuclear Explosions. Their Radioactive Contamination Lingers On.

Questions remain to this day over who should be responsible for monitoring these long-abandoned sites and how they impact human health.
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As Russia’s Permafrost Thaws, Ancient Pathogens Risk Re-Awakening

Pathogens that are tens or even hundreds of thousands of years old may still be infectious once thawed, putting humanity at risk of never-before-seen diseases...
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