News Digest 09.02.2024 — 12.02.2024
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Medical universities received 380 quotas for presidential and government scholarships
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has distributed quotas for presidential and government scholarships for students at universities subordinate to the Ministry of Health in the 2024/2025 academic year. Also, students studying specialties corresponding to priority areas of modernization and technological development will receive support. These include, in addition to clinical and fundamental medicine, pharmacy, as well as medical biochemistry, biophysics and cybernetics. A total of 380 quotas have been allocated for the designated areas, however, these specialties are also taught in some non-core universities.
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Two clinics will be built in the Irkutsk region for 3 billion rubles
The clinic in the village of Markova will be built under the state program “Health Development”. The contractor needs to develop design and estimate documentation, build the facility and purchase medical equipment. The area of the planned three-story building, as well as the composition and number of premises will be approved during the creation of the project.
The terms of reference indicate the construction period for the facility - from November 28, 2024 to December 31, 2025, all work under the contract must be completed on February 4, 2026. In addition to the central entrance to the clinic, the contractor must provide separate entrances for patients of the infectious disease specialist, the antenatal clinic, the emergency room and the emergency room. Next to the clinic there should be a parking lot for two cars and one truck.
When placing offices, it is necessary to take into account the elements of a “lean” clinic to reduce the time patients spend in a medical institution. In 2024, the contractor will receive 286.7 million rubles, in 2025 – 723.4 million rubles, and in 2026 – 809.5 million rubles.
They also intend to build a children's clinic in the village of Khomutovo in accordance with the state program “Health Development”. The contractor must carry out design and survey work, build the facility and equip it with equipment.
Construction should begin on September 3, 2024, and be completed on December 2, 2025. The area of a three-story building must be determined during design. On the territory of the medical institution it is planned to place a garage for two cars and one truck and auxiliary premises. For 2024, 554 million rubles are provided for work, for 2025 – 724 million rubles. Financing will be provided from the regional budget.
In July 2022, the authorities announced the construction of a children's clinic at the Irkutsk City Clinical Hospital No. 10. The medical facility is designed for 500 visits per shift. The building must be put into operation by December 1, 2025. The construction of the clinic was estimated at 1.125 billion rubles. The area of the nine-story medical facility will be more than 10 thousand square meters. m.
The building will house pediatric, consultative and diagnostic departments, dental departments, as well as a diagnostic department with an X-ray unit, ultrasound and ECG. The building includes clinical diagnostic and bacteriological laboratories, an emergency medical care room, a physiotherapy department with exercise therapy room, massage room and a swimming pool.
Source: https://vademec.ru/news/2024/02/12/v-irkutskoy-oblasti-postroyat-dve-polikliniki-za-3-mlrd-rubley/
Medical universities received 380 quotas for presidential and government scholarships
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has distributed quotas for presidential and government scholarships for students at universities subordinate to the Ministry of Health in the 2024/2025 academic year. Also, students studying specialties corresponding to priority areas of modernization and technological development will receive support. These include, in addition to clinical and fundamental medicine, pharmacy, as well as medical biochemistry, biophysics and cybernetics. A total of 380 quotas have been allocated for the designated areas, however, these specialties are also taught in some non-core universities.
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A patch has been created in China that tracks the growth of a malignant tumor under the skin
Specialists from the National Tsing Hua University, together with scientists from Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), have developed a patch that tracks the size of a tumor in the epidermis. The researchers tested the technology on mice with tumors and found that the development accurately tracked tumor changes over the course of a week.
The patch contains nanoparticles of the metal hafnium, which change their location and properties when the tumor is deformed. The built-in wireless system allows visualization data to be sent to the user's and clinician's phone.
Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-skin-patch-tumor-size-smartphone.html
In pharmaceuticals, the number of patent applications mentioning AI has increased
“Over the past nine years, annual investment in AI technologies across 800 drug development companies has increased 27-fold and continues to grow. The number of annually filed patent applications in the pharmaceutical industry mentioning AI has increased sevenfold over the same period,” noted scientists from Innopolis University in their study on the prospects for finding new drugs using AI.
Most drug development using AI is in the USA, China and India. The main areas of interest are oncology, diseases of the central nervous system and infectious diseases.
Source: https://tass.ru/obschestvo/19948605
A Muscovite was accused of supplying counterfeit medical carts to the Krasnodar Ministry of Health
According to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory, in the fall of 2018, a resident of the capital entered into a state contract with the regional Ministry of Health for the production and supply of medical carts for transporting patients.
In 2023, Roszdravnadzor discovered that medical devices did not meet standards and were not registered. By that time, the carts were already in use in Krasnodar medical institutions.
The damage from the supplier’s actions was estimated at 7 million rubles. The woman is accused of illegal production and sale of unregistered medical products on a large scale (Part 1 of Article 238.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Source: https://kuban.sledcom.ru/news/item/1859819/
FDA will use AI to review reports of drug side effects
The FDA receives more than 2 million reports of drug side effects a year, Ball said. In order to ease the burden on the department, the department began in 2022 the development of the information visualization platform InfoViP, powered by artificial intelligence.
She can independently analyze information and determine its quality. After studying the reports, InfoViP issues recommendations, which are later taken into account when the regulator makes a decision.
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