Medicine

BELGRADE - A variety of new psychoactive substances and new forms of addiction demand that their treatment and prevention are regarded not only as a psychiatric, but also as a public health and social issue, said the participants of the symposium on 'Addiction Disorders - Trends and Challenges' in Belgrade on Saturday.

Bulgaria ranks last among European countries in terms of the implementation of preventive measures against the flu, especially the use of the seasonal flu vaccine.

Doctors recommend vaccination particularly to the elderly, people suffering from diabetes, heart diseases and chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and bronchitis.

An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, the network said on Oct. 2

Britain hosted an international conference on Thursday to help organise the fight against Ebola in its former colony Sierra Leone

Some 9% of Bulgarians have diabetes, according to Dr. Natalia Temelkova, endocrinologist at Alexandrovska Hospital in Sofia.

Temelkova noted that the actual number of people with diabetes in the country is probably around 600,000, BGNES reports. Childhood obesity rates in Bulgaria have reached 20%, which increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the expert warns.

He has designed and introduced to Romania an innovative emergency intervention system, which today is given as an example in other countries and is also used by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a case study.

The United States has diagnosed its first case of Ebola in a man who was infected in Liberia and traveled to Texas, US health officials said Tuesday, pledging to contain the virus that has killed more than 3,000.

A 24-year-old foreign national faced a prosecutor in Thessaloniki on Tuesday on charges of drug dealing on the campus of the northern port city’s Aristotle University.

Police arrested the suspect on the university grounds after receiving a tip-off about his alleged illegal activities.

They found six packages containing a total of 796 grams of cannabis on his person.

Health Minister Makis Voridis on Monday ordered an investigation into how a male nurse, who is a father of two, died at a psychiatric hostel for minors in Pallini, northeast of Athens, following a violent brawl between two patients over the weekend.

An investigation has been launched into how a nurse at a psychiatric clinic in Pallini, northeast of Athens, died shortly after a row between two patients.

The incident occurred late on Saturday. It is not clear how the nurse was killed but a few hours earlier, nurses at the clinic had to break up a fight between two patients.