Oleksandr Shalimov monument unveiled in Kyiv

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A monument to founder of the National Surgery and Organ Transplantation Institute Oleksandr Shalimov has been unveiled in Kyiv.
Representatives of the Kyiv City State Administration, clergymen, colleagues and sons of the famous surgeon attended the official ceremony. Oleksandr Shalimov is known as the founder of Ukrainian...
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February 4th – World Cancer Day

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Every year, February the 4th is a World Cancer Day, proclaimed by the "International Union Against Cancer."
The purpose of this international day is to raise awareness about cancer for the purpose of prevention, timely diagnosis and treatment of this disease. The initiators of this annual global event...
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Spain is the leader of the world transplantology

azul-ontTo date Spain is a country, where the health system succeeded to organize one of the most successful models transplantologic service.
Actually, the Spanish surgeons have performed more than 90,000 organ transplants, 300,000 tissue transplants and about 50,000 transplants of bone marrow and cord blood transfusions. And the Spanish people, needing organ transplants...
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The first pharmaceutical company in Japan applies approval for stem cell medicine

JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. A pharmaceutical firm based in Hyogo is set to submit an application for government approval of cultured cells (stem cells) as medicine, the first firm in Japan to do so. This medical treatment is aimed at bone marrow transplant patients, to help reduce the side effects of the procedure.
JCR Pharmaceutical Co., a midsize company in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture is expected...
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Top 10 Stem Cell Predictions for 2014

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Every year, the famous American biologist and writer Paul Knоepfler predicts development of cellular technologies in the coming year.
According to the forecast of professor Knoepfler, in 2014 surprised the world will be astonished by the following top 10 events in the field of...
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Stem cells repair damaged heart

ScrippsA new stem cell treatment may help heart attack patients do something once thought medically impossible — regenerate dead heart muscle.
Scripps Health in La Jolla is one of three centers testing the therapy from Capricor, a Los Angeles biotech company. The cardiac stem cells are meant to boost the heart’s natural ability to perform minor repairs. If it works,...
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