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Hospitals will receive nearly BGN 15.2 million more by the end of the year, informed reporters the member of the Supervisory Board of the NHIF Dr. Vanyo Sharkov last Wednesday. He explained that the Supervisory Board at a meeting has made a decision the university hospitals budgets to be increased by 2%, while the budgets […]

The Health Minister takes on the medicine procurement in hospitals, announced the Council of Ministers in its Draft Decree. It was published on the website of the Ministry of Health for public comment. In his new activity, the Minister will be assisted by a new unit in the Department, which will be created for the […]

People between 18 and 49 years of age with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) have increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes or ischemic heart disease (IHD) according to the results of a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The authors used a database of patients from 1967 to 2003 and […]

Ireland, the United Kingdom and Albania are the first three countries in Europe in child obesity. Bulgaria is fifth, according to a study published at a Congress on the problem in Prague. The study has been conducted with the participation of the World Health Organization (WHO) based on data for children aged up to 5 […]

One of the most prominent Italian neurologists and acknowledged European experts in the field of Parkinson’s disease Prof. Angelo Antonini was an official guest speaker at the 14th National Congress of Neurology, held over the weekend in the resort “Golden Sands”, announced the organizers of the forum. Prof. Antonini is Director of the Department of […]