On February 27, Oleh Musiy became the new Minister of Healthcare. He has repeatedly criticized the monopoly in the medical services sector and also fought for the introduction of mandatory state insurance.
In Ukraine, prices for medicines may increase due to the introduction of a one-time tax of 7%, which the new government decided to establish as an anti-crisis measure.
Currently, cancer is the most common disease in the world, so various myths and misconceptions appear among the population, which oncologists considered necessary to dispel.
Over the last decade, the percentage of schoolchildren's illnesses has increased 27 times. Only 7% of modern school-age children have satisfactory health.
As it turns out, Ukrainian citizens are being offered treatment for viral diseases with drugs that do not contain an active substance and which are essentially a “dummy”; such an unexpected statement was made by the vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Council for the Protection of Patients’ Rights, Yevgeny Naishtetik.
At Imperial College London, scientists, together with researchers from the National Institutes of Health, are very close to creating a universal vaccine that will make the human body able to resist almost any viral infection.
Experts are confident that at present there are more than three hundred thousand unknown viruses in nature, which could subsequently prove dangerous to human health and life.
British scientists have informed the world of the first known case of bird flu being transmitted not from an animal to a human, but from a human to a human. A British popular science magazine reported that a 32-year-old woman in China had contracted bird flu while interacting with her sick father.
