Slovak scientists have big plans but often little money at the their disposal to fulfil them and are unhappy that clerks are more interested in the number of test tubes used than the concrete results of ...
A few patients have come together to try to exchange information about their disease. A doctor or two, unhappy with the divorce between medicine and social welfare joins them.
Fedor Gömöry from the Slovak Academy of Sciences' (SAV) Electrotechnical Institute was chosen as the country's best male scientist for research into magnetic fields.
Slovakia is at a similar level with Sweden and Belgium in terms of money spent on healthcare as share of the public purse but you can barely find a Slovak patient who dares to compare the quality of the ...
At the beginning of this week the Children's University Hospital in Bratislava posted on their Facebook page a thank you note from the family of a patient. Nothing unusual you might say, if you are not ...
Currently 443 people in Slovakia wait for a donor to give them an organ, about a tenth of them might die on the waiting list.
Despite the fact that demographers say Slovakia's population is ageing fast, available data show a relatively low prevalence of dementia in this country, 5.5 percent of Slovaks older than 60.
The ancient Mayan culture, which belongs to the Mesoamerican civilisations, has quite a strong connection with Slovakia. Sounds unbelievable?
„Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," says the World Health Organization (WHO).
Despite painting a permanently rosy picture through a state-controlled media, the formerly Communist regime of Czechoslovakia left its fair share of dirty secrets behind. One of them was a disused stone ...
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