Health care

COVID-19 patients and their families have told BIRN of spending hundreds of euros, in some cases up to 1,500 euros, on oxygen equipment for home use. Some said they subsequently offered the equipment for sale on social media.

Dejan Markovic, the anesthesiologist in the Covid-hospital in Batajnica, explains the difference after a year of fighting the pandemic - Everyone is one year older now!

A white gunman was charged on March 17 with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nurses in northwestern Turkey fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the front lines said on March 14 they want everyone to follow precautions to reduce the burden on health care professionals.

The new admissions of Covid-19 patients in the hospitals of the country are 304

Ljubljana – The coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) has tabled amendments to the pharmacy practice act that would partly deregulate the retail pharmacy market, including by rolling back a ban on vertical integration of pharmacies and drug wholesalers. The proposal has been criticised by the Chamber of Pharmacies, which argues the existing rules are good.

Bucharest, Feb 14 /Agerpres/ - Romania ranks high among European Union countries in terms of vaccination campaign, shows the Facebook page of the information Platform on vaccination against COVID-19. As many as 21,120,988 doses of vaccine were administered in EU member states, according to Bloomberg estimates, with a daily average of 656,227.

Two nurses and two nursing assistants of the Matei Bals hospital who were on duty at the ward where a fire broke out that killed five patients were questioned on Friday at the Bucharest Police headquarters. According to lawyer for the Matei Bals hospital Constantin Durgeru, the two assistants tried to put out the fire and managed to stop the oxygen supply, avoiding an explosion.

Another vaccine against Covid, trialled in the UK and bought by the government, has been shown to be nearly 90% effective and work against the UK and South African variants of the virus.

The research of the Greek scientist Grigoris Grigoriadis 50 years ago laid the foundations for the technology of today's Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. The photo shows Grigoriadis with biochemist Brenda Ryman in a laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London.