Latest Medical News from Russia

In 2025, medicine has taken steps that are directly changing clinical practice: fundamental discoveries have begun to be converted into real solutions. In this digest we've assembled precisely such works.

Theranostics ("therapy" with "diagnosis") is one of the most promising and modern methods of cancer treatment. It is based on the use of radiopharmaceuticals that diagnose and simultaneously destroy cancer cells. Nidal Salim, Director of the EMC Institute of Oncology, told Marus Media when theranostics is used and exactly how it helps fight the tumor.

For the 9 months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, Russia's Ministry of Health recorded 25% growth in the financial volume of medical care provided to foreign citizens. The volume of treatment for patients with serious oncological, cardiological, and ophthalmological conditions increased particularly notably.

Thanks to government and private investment, Russia has created comprehensive nuclear medicine infrastructure over the past 20 years, a network of PET/CT diagnostic centers, SPECT/CT facilities at major multidisciplinary clinics, and "hot beds" for radiopharmaceutical treatment. This infrastructure is followed by radiopharmaceutical development and clinical trials, and theranostics development available in only a few countries. Read the full analysis on Marus Media.

Scientists from Sechenov University demonstrated through data from two thousand patients that obesity and associated pathologies (collectively metabolic syndrome) reliably increase the risk of developing cancer. According to the study, tumors are more likely caused not only by excess weight itself, but also by cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and metabolic disorders.

FMBA of Russia has produced and delivered to clinics the first batch of its own modern radiopharmaceutical (RPh) Rakurs, 223 Ra (radium chloride (223Ra). The creation of a Russian analog of the German Xofigo will increase therapy accessibility for patients with bone metastases in prostate cancer.

Russian clinics will be able to provide new types of high-tech medical care (HTMC). These are innovative methods for treating childhood cancers, spinal cord and spine pathologies, as well as for therapy of patients with renal failure.

Depression is a leading global driver of lost working hours. According to WHO data, this disease costs the global economy $1 trillion annually due to decreased productivity and direct treatment costs. For World Mental Health Day, Marus Media spoke with clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist at SM-Clinic, Svetlana Pulya, about why depression cannot be considered simply a personal weakness.

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