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People between 18 and 49 years of age with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) have increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes or ischemic heart disease (IHD) according to the results of a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The authors used a database of patients from 1967 to 2003 and […]

Ireland, the United Kingdom and Albania are the first three countries in Europe in child obesity. Bulgaria is fifth, according to a study published at a Congress on the problem in Prague. The study has been conducted with the participation of the World Health Organization (WHO) based on data for children aged up to 5 […]

One of the most prominent Italian neurologists and acknowledged European experts in the field of Parkinson’s disease Prof. Angelo Antonini was an official guest speaker at the 14th National Congress of Neurology, held over the weekend in the resort “Golden Sands”, announced the organizers of the forum. Prof. Antonini is Director of the Department of […]

The Parliamentary Health Committee could not decide whether GPs should hand out universal access codes (UAC) to the NHIF electronic system to patients. This proposal was made by the MP from GERB Semir Abumelih and was passed among the amendments to the Health Insurance Act, which the Commission considered during its second presentation. The idea […]

The NHIF does not fund hospitals, but the services provided to the patients who visited the hospitals, stated Dr. Glinka Komitov, Manager of the NHIF, in front of the media. He noted that this was the reason for having to make adjustments to some hospitals’ budgets. According to him, most patients go to those hospitals […]