Pathology

Investor and co-founder of Google Maps Lars Rasmussen has decided to invest in the Greek biotechnology company ResQ Biotech, it was reported on Tuesday.

According to Nova source, Stankovi died as he got infected with COVID-19. The news was also confirmed to the Serbian Radio and Television.

Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska, RS, will continue to perform autopsies of people who have died from the coronavirus, its health minister said on Thursday.

This comes after the state association of forensic pathologists said earlier that such autopsies should be stopped in the current circumstances.

Bucharest, Mar 29 /Agerpres/ - Two more persons infected with the novel coronavirus - COVID-19 - have died, the total death toll in Romania going up to 40, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Sunday. The two were a man, aged 71 and a woman aged 27. The 71-year-old man from Suceava was a contact with a person coming back from Austria.

Schools, universities, theatres, cinemas, athletics facilities, archaeological sites, artistic venues and museums have been closed initially for a period of 48 hours in the prefectures of Achaia, Elia, and Zakynthos.

Nationwide measures will be re-evaluated after that period.

A man who worked as a doctor at a hospital in Kavala, northern Greece, for 17 years was removed from his post after it was discovered that he didn't have the proper medial qualifications.

The man was assigned a position in the hospital's pathology department in February 2001. 

The death on Sunday of a 5-year-old Syrian girl at the Moria reception center on the island of Lesvos is due to "undetermined causes," a coroner said Tuesday, noting that histological tests currently being carried out could take months to yield conclusive results.

A coroner is trying to establish the identity of a skeleton found by a hiker in a duffel bag at the entrance of a cistern in the area of Sounio in southern Attica on Thursday.

Attica police and the medical examiner of Athens University are hoping to get a lead on the deceased's identity and cause of death to determine whether foul play was involved.

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined “liquid biopsy” identified the markers in the blood of 221 patients with the early-stage disease. Their results, published online the week of Sept.

Only 21 of Greece's 51 regions have a coroner service and just two full-time and 11 fixed-contract medical examiners serve the public health system (ESY), Greek Coroners' Association chief Grigoris Leon warned on Tuesday.