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December 16, 2014
The hexa- and pentavalent baby vaccines, which had been blocked for several months because of a shortage of quantities and the failure of public tenders for suppliers, have been provided. In October, the caretaker Minister of Health said that the two types of vaccines will be available by the end of November, but late last […]
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December 3, 2014
Waiting for change: the health community believes that it is time to end doing nothing in the sector
Another year in which health is assigned a lot less money than the sums which are expected to be consumed, and then the budget of the main payer – the Health Insurance Fund – has to be updated or payments have to be postponed is coming to an end. This is another year in which […]
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November 25, 2014
The clinic “La Prairie” in the Swiss city of Montreux is famous for its patented therapy with an extract from the liver of an embryo of the black sheep. And this is not new. The beginning was in 1931 and its founder – Dr. Paul Niehans. He found that injections of live cells from unborn […]
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Besides the diagnosis and treatment of diseases a major step towards a healthier life is prevention. Especially in what we consume. A true technological breakthrough was made by the small company Consumer Physics from Israel. Their creation SCiO is as big as the normal flash memory, but it has great features. It is the first […]
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In the science fiction series “Star Trek” there is a device that fits into the hand and after a quick scan of the human body it manages to understand whether there is a health problem. It does not cure, but diagnoses without contact with the patient. Its name is tricoder. In 2012, the corporation Qualcomm […]