The government approved the payment of 105 million euros to hospitals to settle their debts to suppliers of medicines and medical materials. #dugovi #bolnice #ministarstvo_zdravstva (translated)
U.S. regulators have approved a new drug for hepatitis B, bepirovirsen, which can help patients suppress the virus in just six months of treatment, providing hope for an end to daily antiviral pill intake, although it does not work for all patients and causes serious side effects. #hepatitisB #noviLijek #zdravlje (translated)
Belgian Minister Frank Vandenbroucke proposes that the EU take measures against American pressure to increase drug prices, including possible abolition of customs privileges and activation of the Instrument to Fight Coercion. #EU #lijekovi #trgovinskiRat (translated)
The family of a woman who died after ChatGPT advised reducing her medication dosage is suing OpenAI, claiming that the chatbot provided medical advice without a license and encouraged dangerous self-treatment. #epilepsija #umjetnaInteligencija #OpenAI (translated)
The family of a 31-year-old epileptic woman is suing OpenAI for a death that occurred after ChatGPT advised them to reduce the dosage of medication, and an autopsy showed that the drug level was five times lower than the minimum therapeutic dose. #tužba #epilepsija #OpenAI (translated)
American Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ease the sale of unverified peptide injections, despite the opposition of most scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who warn of safety risks. #peptidi #FDA #zdravstvo (translated)
India will limit margins on 137 cancer drugs to 30 percent from next month after the Supreme Court condemned the huge profit margins of hospitals and pharmacies, calling them extortion, which should allow millions of patients access to long-needed therapy. #Indija #rak #zdravstvo (translated)
An important change has been introduced in Croatian healthcare, allowing doctors in emergency situations to write prescriptions for patients themselves, thereby eliminating the need to visit a family doctor. #recepti #hrvatskozdravstvo #hitnamedicinapomoć (translated)
The main cause of lung cancer is smoking cigarettes, but it is interesting that in the case of adenocarcinoma, the proportion of non-smokers is significantly higher than in other types of lung cancer. Adenocarcinoma is lung cancer, one of the most serious diseases of the respiratory system in which cells begin to grow uncontrollably and form a tumor. Medically, lung cancer is divided into two main groups: small cell carcinoma and non-small cell carcinoma. The latter is much more common and includes adenocarcinoma, which most often develops in the outer parts of the lungs, explains Dr. Igor Štagljar, professor and director of the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, who is developing new approaches to discovering drugs for cancer. #Papa #rakpluća #oporavak (translated)
Four cases of bone inflammation after vaccination against tuberculosis in babies have raised questions about the safety of the vaccine and the responsibility of institutions, while the Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products has suspended the distribution of BCG vaccine from one manufacturer. #cijepljenje #nuspojave #odgovornost (translated)
In Texas, the death penalty was carried out on 46-year-old Jamaal Howard, who was convicted of murder during a robbery in 2000, despite legal attempts by his lawyers to stop the execution due to doubts about the quality of the lethal drug. #smrtnakazna #Teksas #ChristaPike (translated)
In Texas, Jamaal Howard was executed, having received a lethal dose of pentobarbital, the same drug that was unsuccessfully used in the attempt to execute Christe Pike, and his defense was rejected by the judges due to legal attempts to postpone the execution. #teksas #smrtnaKazna #pogubljenje (translated)
Experts have discovered a new type of fungus, Candida auris, which has developed resistance to all major antifungal drugs, posing a serious threat in hospital environments worldwide. #candidaauris #otpornost #bolničkeinfekcije (translated)
Civilians in the besieged Ukrainian city of Oleshky, faced with a catastrophic lack of food and medicine, are trying to escape through minefields, as they are threatened with death from hunger and the cold. #Ukrajina #HumanitarnaPomoć #Glad (translated)
The inhabitants of occupied Olešky in the Kherson region are desperately trying to escape due to severe shortages of food, water, and medicine, despite the deadly danger of mines along the evacuation routes. #Oleški #humanitarnaKriza #ruskaInvazija (translated)
One of the journalists who witnessed the execution said that Pike was talking, breathing, moaning, and snoring loudly after the injection, and at one point she said she felt like her arm was going to "explode." #smrtnaKazna #Tennessee #neuspjesnopogubljenje (translated)
Ukrajinske snage su dronovima dostavile četiri tone hrane i lijekova civilima u okupiranom gradu Oleški, gdje uvjeti života postaju sve teži i gdje neki stanovnici jedu korov da prežive. #Ukrajina #dronovi #humanitarnaPomoć
Liječnici u Hrvatskoj traže da lijekovi protiv demencije postanu besplatni kako bi poboljšali dostupnost liječenja za oboljele, čime se suočava sve veći broj starijih osoba s Alzheimerovom bolešću i drugim oblicima demencije. #demencija #zdravstvo #Alzheimer
Znanstvenici tvrde da bi čak 45% slučajeva demencije moglo biti spriječeno ili odgođeno kroz upravljanje promjenjivim faktorima rizika, a Alzheimerova bolest više se ne smatra neizlječivom zbog napretka u istraživanjima i razvoju novih lijekova. #AlzheimerovaBolest #Demencija #IstraživanjeZdravlja
Grad Oleshky, pod ruskom okupacijom, suočava se s izuzetno teškom humanitarnom krizom zbog nedostatka hrane, lijekova i mogućnosti evakuacije, a preživjeli civili riskiraju svoje živote pokušavajući pobjeći iz pakla na zemlji. #Oleški #humanitarnaKrizа #evakuacijaCivila
