News about healthcare — hospitals, medical services, new technologies, reforms, and health initiatives.
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From 26 to 30 October, people aged 50 and over, and those with diabetes, can get their eyes checked without an appointment in Karnobat, Aytos, Nessebar, Primorsko and Tsarevo.
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Heart surgeons at the Heart and Brain hospital in Burgas fitted an 85-year-old man from Varna with a reworked aortic valve in place of his mitral…
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The young man has been in treatment for two months at the «Samo Dnes» therapy centre and asked for a gambling ban himself.
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The mother of a 6-year-old boy with PANDAS has written to the health ministry. The ministry received the letter but has not replied yet.
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The MP wants the relatives of these people not to be asked. In the past year, there has not been a single transplant from a living donor in the…
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A national programme to treat ischaemic stroke with artificial intelligence provides for six high-tech centres and equipment for 17 regional…
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The iStroke-BG calculator estimates the risk of an ischaemic stroke over the next 5 years. It is built entirely on data from the Bulgarian population.
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Dr Yulia Shapovalova and Stoyanka Nikolova led a two-hour workshop on how emergency teams should talk to a patient's relatives and react to…
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Fentanyl deaths in Bulgaria are rising sharply, according to the EU Drugs Agency. A patient from Varna tells how he survived twice.
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, but Bulgaria still has no screening programme, and some regions have no breast specialists at all.
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At a cardiology congress, patients and doctors called for heart risk to be found earlier and for patients to be monitored after they leave hospital.
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The elderly woman, who has an infected leg wound, waited in a wheelchair outside the purulent-septic surgery clinic to see a doctor.
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Dr Mihail Dimitrov has been working in the Cardiology Clinic since August. He was part of the teams of Prof. Michael Becker and Prof. Christian Meyer.
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Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have stopped using BulBio's BCG vaccine after four cases of osteitis in children. The Serbian agency says the…
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Checks will be offered at El-Masri, Deva Maria and the cancer centre. On 17 October, the Burgas bridge will be lit up in pink.
