HEALTH

The Institute of Diagnosis and Animal Health (IDSA) confirmed on Monday the presence of African swine fever in four private households in the villages of Ceatalchioi and Sălceni, Ceatalchioi commune in the Danube Delta, Tulcea County. Confirmation was made by ...

African swine fever virus was detected in a sample taken from a wild boar found dead on the Noroieni forest hunting ground in Satu-Mare County, about 6 kilometres from the Hungarian border and 10 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, the ...

The issue of informal payments in some hospitals has not yet been solved, Health Minister Sorina Pintea said on Wednesday, adding that she has a “negative feedback” from this point of view. “Unfortunately, I have a negative feedback. We haven’t ...

A team of 7 technology information experts from Cluj has kicked off a project to develop a healthcare web platform, Wello, for mobile devices, to help families with overweight children to lose weight and have a healthy lifestyle, based on ...

68 searches were carried out on Wednesday by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors and by judicial police officers in all counties and in Bucharest, in a criminal file in which investigations are conducted in terms ...

The trade unionists with the health system announced Tuesday evening that they give up the general strike scheduled on May 11, following the agreement reached with the Government. Labour Minister, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, announced the wage bill will be amended, ...

The U.S. Embassy in Bucharest has awarded four Romanian women within the yearly Women of Courage ceremony on Tuesday for their outstanding results and whose work has had a major impact on the Romanian society in various fields. The embassy ...

Chief prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), Laura Codruta Kovesi has warned on Tuesday over the corruption practices in the healthcare, arguing there are major vulnerabilities which directly impact on the citizens’ life. She exemplified a former hospital manager ...

All the 40 physicians with the Emergency Unit of SMURD Bihor have resigned on Monday, following the decision of the Oradea County Council to cut some of the cash bonuses. The nurses warn they would follow suit. The former UPU-SMURD ...

A young Romanian researcher who had graduated medicine at Yale University and worked at Johns Hopkins in the USA has returned home to join a medical team set to find a natural cure for cancer. Raul Pătrașcu has lived in ...