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There are reported cases of serious, sometimes life-threatening cases of diabetic ketoacidosis in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with SGLT2-inhibitors. This is reported by the manufacturers after consultation with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA). In a number of these reports the clinical presentation of the condition is atypical, […]

During the past 2014 the NHIF allocated 72 million for rare medicines The innovations are crucial for achieving better treatment, but they are very expensive. Good examples of this are the so called “orphan drugs”, which treat rare diseases. Treatment of a patient for a year could exceed millions. Because of that the access is […]

A new front in the National Assembly against the reduced requirements for managers was formed. The Health Minister Petar Moskov has proposed a liberalization of the requirements for managers in the Medical Institutions Act and virtually anyone who has a master degree in economics may become head of a hospital. This formed a new front […]

The results of a retrospective study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology show that the patients with critical limb ischemia who took statins had a significantly lower incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and amputations. The register of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) from 2006 to 2012 was analized […]

Scientists from the Edinburgh University announced that they had found the mechanism that allows breast cancer to spread to the lungs, wrote The Guardian. The team of scientists found that blocking it in mice with the disease reduced the number of secondary tumors in the lungs. The researchers hope that their achievement would lead to […]