Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012

Stockholm – British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells – a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. Scientists want to harness the reprogramming to create replacement…

Careers that pay off! The best paid jobs of the 21 century with salaries of over 80.000 Euros/year

Since childhood, parents and teachers encourage youngsters to choose for their future a suitable career that they would like. Most of them do that. On the other hand there is also another factor to take in consideration: Choosing a career or field that pays off to its potential in concordance with the work input.  Throughout…

Romania opens its gates for doctors from outside the European Union

According to the new draft Law on organization and functioning of the health system, physicians from third EU countries, beneficiaries of permanent resident status in Romania and doctors beneficiaries of long-term resident status granted by one of the EU will be entitled to practice in Romania. “We had solicitations from medics from the USA, Israel…

Things are cheaper in Romania but it doesn’t mean that it’s easier to afford them!

“Prices for goods and services in Romania are at about 60% of the EU average, but the salaries are 4 times smaller” – states the title of the Romanian newspaper “Ziarul Financiar” The prices of goods and services in Romania are at about 60% of the EU average, but the Romanians find themselves paying far…

German doctors consider their job fun!

Berlin – The vast majority of doctors are satisfied with their work. This is what the result from the medical monitor of Statutory Health Insurance National Physicians Association (KBV) and NAV-Virchow-Bund presented in Berlin. 98% of the 11.000 physicians interviewed by telephone consider their work useful and meaningful, 93% are making their work fun and…