Lithuania's Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has asked pharmaceutical manufacturers to lower prices for Lithuania, while representatives of the manufacturers say the call may have no effect, if the pharmaceutical pricing system is not revised.
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Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.
Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has lifted the requirement for pharmacies operating in cities and towns to have an overall floor area of at least 60 square meters.
Emigration has been a perennial headache for the Lithuanian government and businesses for more than a decade now. Departures of young and educated people are a particular drain on the country's resources.
Image navigation system has been used for the first time in surgery in the Baltics at a newly opened hybrid cardiac radiosurgery operating room at Vilnius University Santariškės Hospital on February 25-26.
Institute of Biochemistry scientists at Vilnius University together with the company Sentiero Baltic and Ukrainian partners are developing a unique technology for the diagnosis of kidney diseases.
With salaries ten times higher salaries than in Lithuania, free accommodation, a personal driver and schools arranged for children, Lithuanian doctors are increasingly being lured to Gulf States like the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was found in a 25 year-old patient. There have been only a few such cases in the world.
World-renowned neurosurgeon, scientist and entrepreneur Professor Teodoro Forcht Dagi believes that Lithuania can become an innovative economy on a level with other Western European countries if the relationship between science and business is strengthened and promoted by the state.
The first transplantation of corneal endothelium, the inner layer of the cornea, has been performed at Kaunas Clinics in Lithuania, the hospital said on Thursday.
