Health

  • Society

Ukrainian doctors want to come to work in Lithuania

Seven doctors who lost normal working conditions in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk want to come to Lithuania…

10 years ago
  • Society

113 new HIV cases in Lithuania this year

113 new HIV cases were diagnosed in Lithuania over the first ten months of 2014, as compared to 161 year-on-year.…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania sets up Ebola coordination team

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has set up a task force that would coordinate efforts to manage a possible outbreak…

10 years ago
  • European Union

EU commissioner notes progress in anti-Ebola efforts in Africa

Progress has been made in the efforts to mitigate the Ebola epidemic in Africa, but more instruments and doctors will…

10 years ago
  • Society

7 of 10 Lithuanians avoid health check-ups

Most Lithuanians (68.5 percent) go to see a doctor only when they are seriously ill. 68 percent of people aged…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania bans energy drinks sale to minors

A ban on sale of energy drinks to minors comes into effect in Lithuania on Saturday, making it the first…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania’s health laboratory ready to test Ebola

Lithuania's National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory (NPHSL) is ready diagnose Ebola following a training event held earlier this week, Algirdas…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian lab to be trained to detect and neutralise Ebola

Lithuania's National Public Health Laboratory will this week train to detect and neutralize the Ebola virus, if it reaches Lithuania.…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Estonian and Finnish companies developing Ebola drug

Estonian biotechnology company Icosagen will start developing a vaccine and a biological therapeutic against the Ebola virus together with the…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian Healthcare Ministry may be granted access to confidential patients’ data

The Lithuanian Government has approved the amendments to the Law on Public Health Monitoring that have been proposed by the…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanians and Americans to open new cancer hospital in Vilnius

On Tuesday, 7 October, the GK Klinika Group, a private health care company, announced that was partnering with the University…

10 years ago
  • Society

Spanish Ebola victim’s dog faces death

Spanish police were making further inquiries at the apartment block which is home to the nurse diagnosed with Ebola. [...]

10 years ago
  • European Union

Lithuania’s EC nominee Andriukaitis tells EP he will seek to attract more investment in health

Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Lithuanian nominee for the health and food safety portfolio in the new European Commission, says that as…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania considers legalizing medical abortion

Lithuania's Health Ministry has drafted a new bill on termination of pregnancy, which suggests allowing medication-induced abortion. [...]

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian epidemiologist says no need for Ebola panic

There's no need for panic over the threat of Ebola virus as the risk of contraction exists, but it is…

10 years ago