News Digest 22.01.2024 — 24.01.2024
Regulators
The project for the production of medical devices was approved by the Supervisory Board of the Moglino SEZ
The company BetaMed LLC acts as a potential resident of a special economic zone of industrial production type. The general director of the company, Alexey Stepanov, said that the project involves the development of domestic production of a wide range of medical products. These are surgical endoscopic staplers, cassettes for them, catheters for hemodialysis and other types of venous catheters, etc. The main markets for the products will be medical institutions, veterinary clinics in Russia and the CIS countries.
The maximum production volume after the release of all planned product lines is up to 820 thousand copies. The planned volume of investments will be about 665 million rubles, more than half of which is own funds. As part of the project, it is planned to create about 70 jobs. Alexey Stepanov noted that the project will be finalized, and it is expected that a number of key indicators will be increased.
Acting General Director of Moglino Anton Yakovlev assured that the special economic zone is ready to provide the investor with the necessary space and requested resources in full.
Following the discussion of the project, the participants of the Supervisory Board voted for it, approving its implementation on the site of the special economic zone. In the future, after finalizing the project, it will be considered by the Expert Council. Mikhail Vedernikov, in turn, wished the potential resident a successful defense of his business plan.
Source: https://pskov.ru/novosti/16.01.24/154402
Senators asked the Ministry of Health to provide calculations to compensate for the excise tax on ethanol
The senators ask the Ministry of Health to calculate the necessary compensation for alcohol producers by the end of January in the event of the introduction of an excise tax on ethanol. According to the senators, this information from the ministry has been awaited for a long time. A bill introducing an excise tax was developed at the end of last year, but how they plan to pay compensation is still unclear.
Market news
In Moscow, a neural network will begin to detect malignant cell changes
On the basis of the capital's Diagnostic Center for Laboratory Research (DCLI), a pilot project has begun to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into the work of the city laboratory diagnostic service, the press service of the Moscow Department of Health reported, citing Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova.
According to her, the digital assistant will be able to recognize pathological changes in the biomaterial under study in the background and signal about it. “In this way, specialists will be able to devote more time to the most complex cases, engage less in routine processes, and most importantly, recognize the signs of a disease even when it is not a direct object of study,” Rakova explained.
Young researchers from Sechenov University together with Chinese colleagues will study the possibilities of artificial intelligence in urology
As part of an international partnership, scientists from Sechenov University and their Chinese colleagues are joining forces to integrate innovative AI technologies into urological practice.
After a successful internship for Russian doctors and researchers at Tongji Hospital (Wuhan), both parties agreed to cooperate in research aimed at training artificial intelligence to recognize cancer on MRI.
The use of whole-mount slice technology will open up new opportunities for accurate diagnosis and will contribute to the early detection of cancer, setting new quality standards in medical diagnostics.
Sechenov University is developing a universal immobilization bandage for fixation during fractures and sprains
At the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is developing a modern alternative to standard plaster casts. A team of specialists is working to create a universal immobilization fabric (UIT) that will make life much easier for patients with fractures and sprains. A bandage based on fiberglass reinforcing material and impregnated with two-component polyurethane resin provides reliable fixation of an injured arm or leg. At the same time, it is very light, allows the skin to breathe and is resistant to water. Even a person without medical education can apply it.
“Priority2030”: USMU scientists together with the Ural Instrument-Making Plant have developed unique medical equipment
Import substitution in the Ural style. Unique ventilators and a central monitoring station were developed by the Ural Instrument-Making Plant together with scientists from the Ural Medical University.
This medical system is called the “Central Monitoring Station”. The observer's screen displays heart rate, ECG, saturation and other vital signs.
“We collect patient data from all devices that are in medical institutions in our country. They are transmitted to the nurse’s post and to a unified database, in addition, if an emergency situation occurs, the alarm notification system is triggered,” Vitaly Lavrentyev, head of the telematics product development sector of JSC UPZ “KRET” of the Rostec State Corporation.
The advantage of the Ural development is that it is an open system that can display data from medical devices from different manufacturers. A ventilator, which was also developed in the Urals, will also help save lives.
“The fleet of artificial lung ventilation devices that are now in clinics, in neonatal intensive care units, American equipment, European equipment will be completely replaced by Russian artificial lung ventilation devices produced by our factories.”
Such high-frequency ventilation is produced only in Yekaterinburg. The device can make 600 oscillatory movements per minute - this is 10 times more than its foreign analogues.
Other
An electronic injector patch controlled via a smartphone was invented in the USA
Scientists from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in the USA have developed a flexible electronic patch with microneedles, The Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), designed for painless injections of various drugs. The patch, which can be controlled via a smartphone, contains microneedles that allow drugs to be administered to the patient at a specified time.
There is an electrical circuit on the top surface of the SOP, and the needles can be loaded with various medications. The microspikes themselves are coated with a thin layer of gold, which protects the preparations and surrounding tissue. When a low-voltage electrical stimulus is applied through the patch, the gold coating is destroyed and the drugs are released into the body. The drug is released within 30 seconds after the device receives an electronic signal.
According to scientists, such technology could eventually be used to treat chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's disease by administering various drugs throughout the day on a predetermined schedule. In addition, they can be placed near the affected organs so that the drugs begin to act faster.
Source: https://www.rbc.ru/life/news/65af907c9a7947c0ff0741c0
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