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Smartphones and special devices that transmit data via Bluetooth will remind elderly patients over 65 years when to drink their medications, when it is time to measure their blood pressure, pulse or when to go for a check-up. This is a plan of the European Commission, supported by the Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, by the […]

In connection with the upcoming holidays and the days off work the NHIF informed that the general practitioners and specialists can prescribe, and pharmacies – grant, medicinal products to the insured persons earlier than the stipulated 30 days. The next prescription should be made on the date when the received by the insured person medicines, […]

In healthcare money is never enough anywhere, even in the richest countries, stated the manager of the NHIF Dr. Rumyana Todorova in response to the question whether she was pleased with the NHIF budget for 2015. “But if we concentrate, we should say ‘yes’”, – she indicated and pointed out once again that the sum […]

A package of legislative measures, which based on their administrative deadlines could come into force in February, was published for public comment last week on the website of the Ministry of Health. The next year measures include a transfer of activities from inpatient to outpatient care, clearer rules for long-term negotiating the prices and volumes […]

There are beta-blockers (BB), which do not affect the glycemic metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes (DT2) complicated with heart failure (HF) and carvedilol even improves the regulation of glucose – showed the results of an observational study published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology. The prognostic significance of BB in patients with systolic heart […]