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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.
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
One cannot have everything – a „developed“ economy and clean air at the same time.
With the first days of spring, which in a way is a symbol of women, we in Wellbe want to give our small contribution to this special area of women’s’ health – the heart.
It has taken us several years of building up the awareness among our Swedish and Scandinavian partners, friends and clients that Croatia offers an excellent opportunity for a health holiday.
This June Wellbe hosted a small but great group of clients who came from Norway (Trondheim) and Sweden (Helsingborg).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first Croatian congress of psoriasis gathered experts for this chronic skin disease, domestic and foreign patients’ associations, at the Naftalan Special Hospital in Ivanić Grad last weekend.
Sadly, but it is not always possible to reverse the flow of a disease; one of such situations is dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that accounts for about 50–75% of all cases of dementia.
There have been millions of people who underwent a knee surgery due to cartilage problems. As the population ages, these surgeries will become increasingly common, experts say, however the existing techniques aren’t optimal.
Chronic pain seriously affects the quality of life and makes it difficult for people to perform everyday tasks.
One great area in which neurotechnology has a huge and valuable potential is overcoming the problems of paralysis caused by spinal cord injury.
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.
The common colds as we know them today have been with humans for thousands of years.
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.
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.
“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.”
Orthopaedic surgeries and the follow-up rehabilitation procedures have been one of the strong skill areas and success stories for surgeons and other medical experts from this region.
Just before the big wave of summer holidays has started, so well deserved after hard working months, we wish to consider for a moment the possibility of a holiday spent in a health resort.
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.
I believe most of you are familiar with osteopathy and have undertaken some advice or treatments based upon its rich, deep experience and knowledge.
There are certain health impairments that we all share. The occasional memory lapses are high on that list, I assume.
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.
As the first month of the year slowly disappears, most of us silently search for warmth, dreaming of being pleasantly wrapped in a warm blanket.
When you think of health and wellbeing, there is just an endless list of topics you can connect with it or relate to some specific or more general subject.
„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.
365 days of health! This is how healthcare professionals from all areas: hospitals, clinics, agencies, hotels, transport, local communities, tourist boards… think in the Kvarner region, in Croatia.
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.
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.
You get one body to live with and you want to keep it moving and functioning. Getting older shouldn’t automatically mean you slow down.
For many people, especially those with some medical condition requiring dialysis, travelling means living, feeling alive, enjoying a certain way of freedom.
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.
Polyclinic Peharec in Pula, Croatia, specialises in physical and medical rehabilitation, and is well known to a thousands of athletes and, especially, among sports experts, managers and therapists.
In March this year a new polyclinic for diabetes opened in Zagreb, Croatia and we were honored to have met its founder, the professor Nikola Car – diabetologists and his team.
Focusing on the working population, the researchers say that nearly three-quarters (70%) of the workforce needs vision correction.
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.
One of the signs of ageing is the deterioration of the bones density and other changes in the structure of bones and joints.
According to some recent reports, many people with lower income from developed countries cannot afford proper care oral and dental care for financial reasons.
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.
I’ve recently discovered that a person who invented and constructed the ultrasound device for cataract surgery was born in Istria, Croatia in 1927.
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.
The stimulus to write this article was a recent story about saving a diver’s life in the Croatian Adriatic while being affected by decompression sickness.
