 The patients, who have suffered a surgical intervention by an experienced surgeon, have a rate of mortality on long term with 22% inferior to those who have been treated by surgeons with a lower volume of surgical interventions in their list of achievements. According to which criteria should one chose his/her doctor or surgeon…
 Berlin: The mood of the medical profession has improved. 93% think that the German health care system is good or very good. Four years ago, only 80% had this opinion. Even with the current economic situation, physicians are increasingly satisfied. 95% of hospital doctors and 76% of General Practitioners consider the system good…
88.5% of the Romanian population believes that serious illnesses should be treated with state of the art medication, according to the study conducted by the IMAS institute. More so, over half of the questioned stated that they would rather pay the full price for the generic medicines covered by the state and in exchange for…
Yes! You read it right. It’s all about the new Eye-Phone not the iPhone, although an iPhone can become an Eye-phone… The Eye-Phone in the picture above is the “brain-child†of a young British doctor in cooperation with a Finnish phone company. Andrew Bastawrous from the London School of Hygiene and tropical Medicine connected to…
Romania: Young Roma’s become doctors: “If you are a professional, you won’t be subjected to ethnical discrimination.†18 year’s old and accepted at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy from Iasi. She is a young girl like every other, but her home environment and background would have never permitted her to achieve her goal. “Discrimination…
Only 2% of the ones that work abroad, plan to return to Hungary in the next 2 years. “Since I started working here, during one year, I managed to get rid of my diabetes medication. I no longer have to hold diets, all the lab works are great, I’m well rested and balancedâ€- wrote a…
The Romanian Undersecretary of Health, Raed Arafat, stated Wednesday at Ploiesti that the provision of first aid that the Romanian crews provide is compatible with that of many European countries. From a logistical point of view there are no problems. “In terms of equipment, I guarantee that what we feature is compatible with many European…
Sofia 4 September 2012. Bulgarian parliament passed Tuesday the amendments to the Medical Products in Human Medicine Act. The draft bill for amendments and supplements to the act, filed by the Council of Ministers, was adopted with 91 votes “forâ€, 2 votes “against†and 18 abstentions. The amendments proposed by MP Vanyo Sharkov with the…
Health care spending in Estonia is significantly lower than the average in the OECD countries, writes LETA/Postimees Online. Estonia only spends 6.3% of its GDP on health care costs while the average among OECD members states is 9.5%, is revealed by the organisation’s 2012 health care sector overview. Only Mexico and Turkey spent proportionately less…
The Romanian Health Minister, Ladislau Ritli, declared that the current law is unenforceable and that the co-payment idea will be modified by the end of the year, so that it will refer to a fixed payment. A fixed amount that is accessible to everyone. He said that the current version provided that the patient…