medicine

  • Economy

Minister of health asks producers cut medication prices

Lithuania's Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has asked pharmaceutical manufacturers to lower prices for Lithuania, while representatives of the manufacturers say…

8 years ago
  • Economy

Healthmin lifts minimum area requirement for pharmacies

Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has lifted the requirement for pharmacies operating in cities and towns to have an overall…

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

Lithuania’s brain drain: ‘Some professions are trained for export’

Emigration has been a perennial headache for the Lithuanian government and businesses for more than a decade now. Departures of…

8 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
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Lithuanian scientists develop technology to detect kidney disease

Institute of Biochemistry scientists at Vilnius University together with the company Sentiero Baltic and Ukrainian partners are developing a unique…

9 years ago
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Gulf states luring Lithuanian doctors with high salaries, perks

With salaries ten times higher salaries than in Lithuania, free accommodation, a personal driver and schools arranged for children, Lithuanian…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian doctors perform first surgery on rare tumour

A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was…

9 years ago
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Lithuania can become global innovation economy, says Dagi

World-renowned neurosurgeon, scientist and entrepreneur Professor Teodoro Forcht Dagi believes that Lithuania can become an innovative economy on a level…

9 years ago
  • Society

First corneal endothelial transplantation performed in Lithuania

The first transplantation of corneal endothelium, the inner layer of the cornea, has been performed at Kaunas Clinics in Lithuania,…

9 years ago