Health

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

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has set up a task force that would coordinate efforts to manage a possible outbreak of the Ebola virus, if needed.

Progress has been made in the efforts to mitigate the Ebola epidemic in Africa, but more instruments and doctors will be needed to contain the spread of the virus in more remote regions, says the European Union's (EU) Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania.

Most Lithuanians (68.5 percent) go to see a doctor only when they are seriously ill. 68 percent of people aged 15-19, 70 percent aged 30-39, and 61 percent aged 60-74 said they have a doctor's appointment only if seriously ill. The data comes from TNS Atlas survey carried out by market research comp...

A ban on sale of energy drinks to minors comes into effect in Lithuania on Saturday, making it the first country in Europe to introduce such a ban.

Valgydami maisto produktus, kurių kvapas ir skonis primena braškes, nebūtinai valgote produktą, kurio sudėtyje yra braškų.

Cukraus įtaka vėžinių ląstelių susiformavimui, augimui ir metastazių atsiradimui dažnai tapdavo mokslininkų nesutarimų priežastimi. Kanados vėžio tyrimų organizacija „The Canadian Cancer Society“ tvirtina, kad cukraus vartojimas neturi įtakos greitesniam vėžinių ląstelių augimui.

Lithuania's National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory (NPHSL) is ready diagnose Ebola following a training event held earlier this week, Algirdas Griškevičius, head of the NPHSL's Clinical Testing Department, said on Friday.

Rusijos prezidentui Vladimirui Putinui palaiminus įstatymą, kuriuo užsienio kapitalo dalis Rusijos žiniasklaidos priemonėse apribojama iki 20 proc., net ir kelių likusių režimą kritikuoti drįstančių leidinių ateitis tapo labai miglota. Tačiau nepaisant didžiulio spaudimo, nedidelė dalis šalies žurna...

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

Estonian biotechnology company Icosagen will start developing a vaccine and a biological therapeutic against the Ebola virus together with the Finnish company FIT Biotech Oy, Eesti Paevaleht Online reports.

The Lithuanian Government has approved the amendments to the Law on Public Health Monitoring that have been proposed by the Ministry of Healthcare. If the proposal finds support at the Seimas, the Ministry of Healthcare as well as its subordinate institutions will be authorised to process patients' ...

Vakar dienos pradžioje atvilnijusi pesimizmo banga iš Azijos palietė Europą. Prekyba prasidėjo neigiamu 0,5 – 1,0 proc. akcijų pokyčiu., vyraujant investuotojų skepticizmui, dėl euro zonos bei pasaulio ekonomikos būklės. Tačiau prieš pat prekybos pabaigą dauguma Europos didžiųjų indeksų sugebėjo ats...

On Tuesday, 7 October, the GK Klinika Group, a private health care company, announced that was partnering with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC) to develop and co-manage a new 100-bed cancer hospital in Vilnius, scheduled to open in 2017. GK Klinika will fund the hospital completely...

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

Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Lithuanian nominee for the health and food safety portfolio in the new European Commission, says that as a commissioner he will encourage the EU's most powerful member states to invest more in health and will work on the tobacco and cross-border healthcare directives and GM...

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

There's no need for panic over the threat of Ebola virus as the risk of contraction exists, but it is not big, says Galina Zagrebnevienė, head of the Centre For Communicable Diseases and AIDS' Epidemiological Surveillance Division.