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Take a deep dive into the world of health and wellbeing.

Browse through our blog posts to get our take on anything from lifestyle and culture, nutrition and fitness, to mainstream or alternative treatments and health tourism destinations.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR CROSS BORDER HEALTHCARE

At the end of 2019, the European Commission published its 7-year programme for investing in social and healthcare improvement. The new European Social Fund Plus is, from 2021 on, supposed to incorporate also finances for the stand-alone healthcare programme.

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UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN HEALTH WITH PHARMACOGENOMICS

What happens if this process and the treatments that follow do not bring results?
Our partner hospital in Croatia offers testing to assess your risk for the development of 45 genetically determined diseases. Learn more about pharmacogenomics

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THALASSOTHERAPY TREATMENT

The thalassotherapy treatment is a well-known and widely used health procedure with a long list of benefits and very few contra indications. A good choice for almost all of us.

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WHY ARE WE SICK?

My dear friend Marina has recently moved from Pula to Copenhagen. This is an exciting move for Marina because she was offered an interesting job in the “Second Opinion Clinic” for complementary medicine in Copenhagen.

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DEALING WITH LOWER BACK PAIN

I have, from time to time, suffered from painful feelings in my lower back and I try to ensure that this doesn’t happen too often. I have never found out what is behind my problem as it does not seem to be chronic but appears without warning and goes away again suddenly.

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DEAF FRIENDLY TOURISM IN ISTRIA

This is the second time we write about people with impaired hearing: the first blog actually dealt with the start, or better to say, with the general idea of the project that came alive today.

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Heart care

HEART CARE

This article in a way follows the previous one about smoking, this time focusing on heart care or, to use the professional expression, cardiovascular disease (CVD). The reminder was a recent European report (Eurostat 2016) on this topic.

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Co-Operating saves lives - Human organ transplantation

Human Organ Transplantation

Every country is the best or, better to say, number one in something. For example, the USA is the number one in spam emails, Sweden is the best in pop music, Austria is best in paid time off and Croatia is the world number one in organ donor transplantation rates, in relation to the number of inhabitants, of course.

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Arthritis Day – Take Action

The world has been facing “rheumatism” and “arthritis” as a serious and insidious disease for many thousands of years. However, it was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that the terms as we know them used today came into common use amongst medical professionals and writers.

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High blood pressure prevention

High Blood Pressure Prevention

“Despite extensive knowledge about ways to prevent as well as to treat hypertension, the global incidence and prevalence of hypertension and, more importantly, its cardiovascular complications are not reduced — partly because of inadequacies in prevention, diagnosis, and control of the disorder in an ageing world. Elevated blood pressure is the strongest modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide.”

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Allergies are very common

Allergies

Spring time is also connected with increased number of allergic reactions and then they are often mixed with colds. However, spring is not exclusive period of the year for these unpleasant and sometimes nasty occurrences.

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Memory strategies

Memory Strategies

There are certain health impairments that we all share. The occasional memory lapses are high on that list, I assume.

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Preventive healthcare in Croatia

Preventive Healthcare in Croatia

Preventive healthcare is the name given to procedures designed to assess and create activities to prevent diseases developing rather than just treating diseases as they reveal themselves.

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Let the sunshine into your bones

Let the Sunshine Into Your Bones

„The bone and joint decade“ proclaimed by the World Health Organization, followed by several other respectful international organizations expresses the overall concern and care for our bones and musculoskeletal health.

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Health Management at Work

Health Management at Work

During my recent 5-day visit to Stockholm, mainly to visit the seniors’ fair, I also went to see a nice, advanced, innovative company up in Danderyd, providing health profile assessments for employees.

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Croatian spine expert Marinko Rade

The Croatian Spine Expert

This week, during my regular back and neck therapy, I heard the therapists discussing the news about a young Istrian spine expert being a part of new research connected with spine problems.

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You are in good hands

You Are in Good Hands

To drive through the beautiful landscape from Novigrad to Buzet at this time of the year with all shades of green present around you is a life enhancing experience.

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Eye Health

Eye Health

Focusing on the working population, the researchers say that nearly three-quarters (70%) of the workforce needs vision correction.

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Healthcare Concerns for Aging Population

Elderly Healthcare

I was very pleased to find a whole series of articles dealing with healthcare, one of the main concerns of today’s civilization, that is, the aging of population.

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Rehabilitation and healthcare for athletes and sports teams

Athletes Healthcare

In the Croatian districts of Istria and Kvarner, there are several great opportunities for athletes healthcare and sports training to prepare intensively for the next season’s competitions.

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Cataract surgery and Istrian born inventor Anton Banko

Cataract Surgery Inventor

I’ve recently discovered that a person who invented and constructed the ultrasound device for cataract surgery was born in Istria, Croatia in 1927.

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Medical rehabilitation - improve quality of your life after injury

Medical Rehabilitation in Croatia

Medical rehabilitation is a branch of medicine, which aims to improve, enhance and optimise the physical functionality and quality of the lives of patients who have physical impairment or other disabilities.

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