Eight doctors and one pharmacist from Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia, were honoured for their outstanding research achievements as the International Medis Awards for Medical Research were handed out for the 11th year in Ljubljana on 13 March.
Paediatrician Alja Kavčič from the Ljubl

A six-month-old infant underwent a successful heart transplant at the UKC Ljubljana medical centre in October in what has been lauded as an exceptional achievement of Slovenian medicine. His parents say the baby has recovered well.
The centre's Paediatric Clinic admitted the child in September afte

Experts at Slovenia's largest medical centre are working on a gene sequencing project with the aim of developing a national reference genome and personalizing healthcare.
As part of the project, led by the Paediatric Clinic at the UKC Ljubljana medical centre, 500 seemingly healthy adults donated t

Slovenian pharmacists will no longer be able to invoke conscientious objection under legislative amendments passed after a pharmacist refused to issue birth control pills to a woman because of their religious belief.
The case of the pharmacist invoking conscientious objection in Lendava grabbed hea

Slovenia's Constitutional Court has ruled legislation that bars single women and women in same-sex relationships from accessing assisted reproduction procedures unconstitutional. The National Assembly must amend the law accordingly within a year. Until then, the existing provisions will remain in f

Slovenia has become only the seventh EU country to put in place right-to-be-forgotten legislation that ends discrimination of cancer survivors and those living with hepatitis C or HIV when they apply for life insurance or a mortgage.
Such persons have the right not to have their medical history con

Slovenia's largest hospital has introduced a new breakthrough method of treating heart rhythm problems or arrhythmia using electroporation. The new procedure treats atrial fibrillation, the most common form of persistent abnormal heartbeat.
The Department of Cardiology at the UKC Ljubljana medical

The Celje General Hospital has joined UKC Ljubljana and UKC Maribor as the third Slovenian hospital to have a cardiac surgery department. The surgical team led by Tomislav Klokočovnik plans to perform 100 open-heart surgeries a year and 50 by the end of this year.
The open-heart surgery programme w

Slovenia may soon ban doctors employed in public health institutions from working for private providers in the self-pay market, and seriously curb after-hours they put in for private practices included in public healthcare under a highly divisive reform bill that has further deepened the conflict b