Science and engineering

Codeine-containing painkillers can be dangerous to health.

Most often, elderly people become such patients.

In total, the contract with the German company and the American concern provides for the supply of up to 1.8 billion doses of vaccine by the end of 2023.

The Ministry of Health of Belarus has issued a permit for the import and use in the country of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus CoviVac.

In the Republic of South Africa, special conditions are being created for the formation of new strains of coronavirus, since a significant part of the population of this country is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

The World Health Organization expects an increase in the number of hospitalizations and deaths due to the Omicron coronavirus strain.

Before that, there were no confirmed deaths from the strain in the world.

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has received permission to use Zolgensma, a drug used to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), in Russia.

Scientists have revealed the top secret of the most controversial vitamin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, has promised to send medics and equipment to South Africa to fight the omicron strain COVID-19.

Consultant of the digital medical service Doctor Nearby, general practitioner, told Izvestia how the symptoms differ in cases of illness with strains of the Delta and Omicron coronavirus.

Onishchenko clarified that the invasion of these insects is indirectly related to the ill-being of Russia.

Antibodies of patients who were vaccinated twice with the Pfizer vaccine and had previously been ill with coronavirus, fought more actively with the «omicron» strain.

American biologists have found that rhamnan sulfate, a polysaccharide found in Monostroma nitidum algae used to wrap sushi, effectively suppresses the coronavirus.