News Digest 17.01.2025 — 24.01.2025
Regulators
The State Duma will increase fines for obstructing business inspections
The State Duma adopted in the first reading bill No. 736449-8, which amends Article 19.4.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation in terms of increasing liability for obstructing the lawful activities of an official of a state control (supervision) body.
The authors of the document propose increasing the amount of fines for violating Part 2 of Article 19.4-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation:
- for officials - from 10,000 to 20,000 rubles (previously 5-10 thousand rubles);
- for legal entities - from 250,000 to 500,000 rubles (previously 20-50 thousand rubles).
For violating the third part of this article, it is proposed to increase the fines:
- for officials - from 25,000 to 50,000 rubles (previously 10-20 thousand rubles);
- for legal entities - from 500 thousand to 1 million rubles (previously 50-100 thousand rubles).
According to the explanatory note, now in some cases it is more profitable for controlled persons to prevent inspections than to allow them to be carried out. This is due to the fact that the sanctions for certain types of administrative offenses provide for fines that are significantly greater than those provided for evading inspections.
Market news
GENERIUM registered the first domestic device for analyzing tuberculosis test results
GENERIUM received a registration certificate for the medical product "SCREENSPOT®" - a microplate analyzer for automated reading and analysis of tuberculosis test results based on the ELISPOT method. The equipment is intended for clinical diagnostic laboratories and can improve their efficiency.
Medscan and Rosatom opened a surgical hospital in Perm for 810 million rubles
The Medscan Group of Companies and the Rosatom State Corporation opened a surgical hospital of the Philosophy of Beauty and Health medical center in Perm. The total investment is 810 million rubles. The clinic will be able to be visited by 2.5 thousand people annually.
The parties announced plans to create the hospital in January 2024.
The total area of the clinic is 3 thousand square meters. The six-story building houses three operating rooms, an anesthesia and intensive care unit, as well as a 24-hour hospital with 34 beds. There they will provide medical care in a number of areas, including general surgery, traumatology and orthopedics, phlebology, operative gynecology, proctology and urology.
Other
OpenAI has created an artificial intelligence model to extend human life
The OpenAI company, together with the biotech startup Retro Biosciences, has developed a language model GPT-4b, which is capable of predicting the interaction of proteins with each other and turning ordinary cells into stem cells. This was reported by the scientific and technological journal MIT Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The neural network was trained on protein sequences of various biological species and data on their interactions with each other. It is based on the basic language model GPT-4 from OpenAI, specially adapted for solving problems in the field of bioengineering, follows from the material.
While Google's AlphaFold uses artificial intelligence to determine the three-dimensional protein structure with atomic precision, the OpenAI model focuses on improving the work of Yamanaka factors involved in embryonic development. They can rejuvenate adult cells by reprogramming them into stem cells.
Trump announces largest AI project in history worth $500 billion, including the creation of AI solutions in healthcare
At a press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the creation of the Stargate project, which involves investments of at least $500 billion in the creation of physical and virtual infrastructure to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI), including “colossal data centers” and campuses across the country in America, one of the goals of which is to improve healthcare indicators, Mobihealthnews reports.
Trump announced Stargate together with three project partners: Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
Ellison spoke about the goal of the Stargate project and what AI-based applications it intends to create.
“Doctors will be able to not only maintain electronic medical records, but also analyze them. This will provide doctors with a deeper understanding of their patients’ conditions, which will allow them to provide much better care,” Ellison said.
Source: https://t.me/medicalksu/5463
Newly registered medical devices
We publish a list of new medical devices registered from 01/17/2025 to 01/24/2025
Link to the list: [see table in the attachment]
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