Iryna Biriukova

Signs advertising alcohol and tobacco products will soon disappear from Ukrainian cities and villages, and ads for beer and cigarettes will no longer be aired on television and radio. A few days ago the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law banning the advertising of tobacco products, alcoholic...

In April 2006, 35 children living in Miziakivski Khutory, a village in Vinnytsia oblast, were hospitalized after being given a tuberculin skin test for tuberculosis. The event was widely covered in the media, and the parents of the children asked law enforcement authorities to investigate the case...

This year World Population Day, traditionally marked on July 11, was devoted to saving the male population of Ukraine. The mortality rate among the representatives of the “stronger sex” is much higher than among women. This was the topic discussed by experts at a recent roundtable. According to...