Healthcare

  • European Union

Rasa Juknevičienė: COVID-19 lessons learned

‘Lessons learned’, as they say in the army. When I held the office of Minister of Defence of Lithuania, along…

5 years ago
  • Economy

Health Minister sees no sense in sugar tax amid plans to improve product contents

Sugar tax is not planned in Lithuania for now, as the content of sugar in products should be reduced through…

7 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Karbauskis explained why medicine is more expensive in Lithuania than in Poland

On February 13 the Peasant and Greens Union presented the outline of reforms aimed at reducing the prices of pharmaceuticals…

8 years ago
  • Society

IVF procedures in Lithuania come to halt after new law takes effect – official

Healthcare providers in Lithuania stopped offering assisted reproduction treatment to new patients after a new law took effect in January…

8 years ago
  • Society

EC Andriukaitis agrees that Lithuanian doctors should ‘work off’ in regions for degree

European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania in charge of health care and food safety agrees that doctors who receive…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania to treat rare diseases in EU

Lithuanians who have mandatory health insurance will be able to undergo treatment of extremely rare diseases in other countries of…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Economy

Minister “ban everything” – will absurd situations not occur?

The new government, it would appear, intends to start its work with harsh restrictions. Their newest idea – to ban…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuanian PM looking for substitutes for incapacitated healthcare minister

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he will be looking for a replacement for Minister of Healthcare Juras Požela who has…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian healthcare minister’s condition ‘serious but stable’ – doctors

Lithuania's Healthcare Minister Juras Požela remains in Vilnius University's Santariškės Clinic with acute pancreatitis. Doctors say his condition is serious,…

8 years ago
  • Politics

Health minister’s condition ‘serious’

Lithuania's Healthcare Minister Juras Požela, who has been hospitalized with acute pancreatitis, is treated in intensive care and his condition…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Organ donation and transplantation rises in Lithuania

Most indicators of organ donation and transplantation in the first half of 2016 were even better than in the same…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuania has third highest rate of preventable deaths in EU

Lithuania has the third highest level of preventable deaths in the EU according to a new Eurostat survey.Romania had the…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuanians have highest rate of cardiovascular-related problems in EU

Every second of Lithuanian will die from a cardiovascular disease, and every third adult in Lithuania has an increased blood…

9 years ago
  • Politics

If Lithuania banned abortion, it would still have to cover it abroad – health minister

If Lithuania introduces a ban on abortion, women will still be able to terminate pregnancy in another EU country and…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

What is the true extent of lobbying in Lithuania’s parliament?

Official figures show that Lithuanian lawmakers have been approached by a small number of lobbyists over the last year but…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Medical students and government to cooperate on corruption prevention plan for health service

Medical students, government and NGO representatives are to work out a corruption prevention plan for health services in Lithuania.The Lithuanian…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian government greenlights plan to fight alcoholism

The Lithuanian government has endorsed an action plan for 2016 to reduce alcohol consumption in the country. [...]

9 years ago
  • Global LT

Permanent residence expats ‘must pay for health insurance in Lithuania’

Lithuanian citizens and foreigners must pay for the compulsory health insurance (PSD) only if they are permanently residing in Lithuania,…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Health services will be more expensive in the future, Lithuanian minister says

Lithuania's new Healthcare Minister Juras Požėla says that while patients should not be made to pay for services at the…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania undertakes first cardiac surgeries using image navigation in Baltics

Image navigation system has been used for the first time in surgery in the Baltics at a newly opened hybrid…

9 years ago