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The Parliamentary Health Committee could not decide whether GPs should hand out universal access codes (UAC) to the NHIF electronic system to patients. This proposal was made by the MP from GERB Semir Abumelih and was passed among the amendments to the Health Insurance Act, which the Commission considered during its second presentation. The idea […]

The NHIF does not fund hospitals, but the services provided to the patients who visited the hospitals, stated Dr. Glinka Komitov, Manager of the NHIF, in front of the media. He noted that this was the reason for having to make adjustments to some hospitals’ budgets. According to him, most patients go to those hospitals […]

The four ruling coalition parties reached a consensus to record in the Health Insurance Act that those Bulgarians who want to be treated under the National Health Insurance Fund will have to pay health insurance 5 years back. This was announced by the MPs from the coalition in the past week. In order to have […]

The administration of exemestane significantly reduces the incidence of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with moderately increased disease risk, showed the results of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Estrogens are involved in the normal mammary glands development, but their high circulating levels may increase the likelihood of breast cancer. […]

June 14, 2015 marks the 10th anniversary from the creation of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital “St. Marina” at the Medical University in Varna “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov.” For this occasion, on the 12th  and 13th of  June, a Conference in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be organized in Varna under […]