Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) in cooperation with Latvian IT company MikroTik has launched an initiative aimed at personalizing and improving treatments and the outlook for survival for childhood cancer patients, the two organizations said in a press release October 15.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) has signed a cooperation agreement with a hospital in Italy's Bolzano city on opening the university’s branch there that will serve as the clinical base for studies, said RSU representative Edijs Šauers.
A newly-formed non governmental organization (NGO) has been formed which says it wants to improve health screening for men in a bid to improve rates of detection and treatment for cancer.
All current restrictions on treatment of people with HIV will be lifted on October 1, Health Minister Anda Čakša (Greens/Farmers) said September 17 after a meeting with non-governmental organizations representing HIV and hepatitis C patients.
Starting next year, there will be 30,000 - 40,000 people who don't qualify for state-sponsored healthcare services. They will be able to make voluntary payments to receive the so-called "full basket" of government-funded healthcare services starting September 1, according to National Health Service representative Edgars Labsvīrs.
Latvia's State Health Inspectorate has told the public there is no risk to the public from an invasion of poisonous spiders, despite the appearance of official-looking posters at public transport stops in Rīga warning them about just such a threat with the worrying message: "Attention! Poisonous spiders!"
4.7 million euros has been allotted for two new state healthcare programs this year involving early detection of cardiovascular diseases and treatment of chronic patients in hospitals, Health Minister Anda Caksa told reporters July 24, reported the LETA newswire.
Latvian Health Minister Anda Caksa confirmed June 19 that she had been questioned by Lithuanian officials as part of the investigation into possible corruption at the Lithuanian National Blood Center.
The number of cancer cases diagnosed at an early stage has increased in Latvia, enabling more patients to start cancer treatment early, the National Health Service informed LETA.
Brussels plans to shift more than €30 billion in cohesion funding from eastern and central Europe to the southern member states still recovering from the economic downturn. Funding for the Baltic states - barring Latvia, it seems - is to shrink by almost a quarter in the bloc’s budget for 2021-2027, reports the Financial Times (paywall).
After hours of debate, on May 17 the Latvian parliament voted to leave Health Minister Anda Čakša at her post, reports LSM's Latvian-language service.
International experts probing the country's "e-health" system have found a bug that had caused it to slow down. It should be fixed within two months, said Latvia's Health Minister Anda Čakša, reported LTV May 14.
The Latvian Infectious Diseases Center of Riga Eastern Hospital has reported this season's first tick carrying the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus, the hospital's spokeswoman Aija Lietina told LETA.
Over the past few years, more and more young doctors choose to work in the countryside after completing their internship, Ilze Grope, the dean of the Rīga Stradiņš University told LTV April 18.
Health Minister Anda Čakša has returned from childcare leave and says the ongoing healthcare reform in the country is going well, she told LTV in an interview on April 3.
A work group of Health Ministry officials, hospital employees, and patients' organizations wants to make Latvia's 'yes unless' organ donation system more clear, reports LTV.
A January 30 charity concert with the participation of a pleiade of Latvian music stars has raised €110,000 for cancer patients.
Last week the number of flu patients in Latvia’s southeastern Daugavpils region has reached the epidemic threshold, therefore the flu epidemics has been declared in Latvia starting from January 30, The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) reported.
A total of 35 persons have died from exposure to the cold from October 1 to January 15, LETA was informed by the State Forensic Medical Center.
On January 16 the National Health Service IT system and the 'e-health' system used by doctors to write prescriptions and sick leaves came under cyber attack, the Health Ministry told LSM's Latvian-language service.
The 'e-health' project may lose EU funding granted to it as it may not be implemented as per the project requirements by the deadline of March 2021.
Five cases of measles were confirmed in Latvia at the end of last year, gut the Center for Disease Prevention and Control is not expecting a major measles outbreak, Jurijs Perevoscikovs, the head of the health authority’s department for the prevention of infectious diseases, told LETA on January 12.
Four cases of measles have been discovered in Latvia, the first in two and a half years, reported Latvian Television January 3.
Family physicians reported numerous problems January 2 due to failures in the electronic health system, Latvian Family Physicians Association's President Sarmite Veide told the LETA news service.
Additional financing of €113.4 million has been earmarked for further health care reforms in Latvia next year from the budget deficit increase approved by the European Commission, according to the Latvian Health Ministry report on the health care reforms planned in 2018.Additional financing of €113.4 million has been earmarked for further health care reforms in Latvia next year from the budget deficit increase approved by the European Commission, according to the Latvian Health Ministry report on the health care reforms planned in 2018.
Saeima passed the Healthcare Financing Law in the final reading on December 14, paving the way for the launch of a state mandatory health insurance system.
The Latvian Association of Family Physicians has decided to end a work to rule that began in July this year and has made new demands to the Health Ministry, warning that they may resume their action if the demands are not met, reported LETA December 1.
Also last year Latvia reported the highest number of new AIDS cases in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA), but the situation has slightly improved from 2015, said Inga Upmace, the board chairwoman of the Baltic HIV Association.
On November 30 the Latvian parliament passed the new healthcare bill in the second, non-final reading. The bill proposes that people paying social security taxes will have full access to public healthcare.
In contrast to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that had Latvia as a top reforming member state, the latest report from the organization has Latvia at the other end of the scale when it comes to life expectancy in general and fruit eating in particular.