AIM To investigate, describe and classify main health policies and reform activities within the healthcare system undertaken over the past twenty years in R. Macedonia. METHODS Desk research was conducted on scientific literature and relevant documentation (in English and Macedonian) about healthcare reforms. Relevant documents available at the Ministry of Health, Health Insurance Fund, World...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) developed and implemented a three-month project entitled Priority Medical Screening of Kosovar Refugees in Macedonia, within the Humanitarian Evacuation Program (HEP) for Kosovar refugees from FR Yugoslavia, which was adopted in May 1999. The project was based on an agreement with the office of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR...

The Macedonian Society of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs, the Macedonian Society of Nephrology and the Macedonian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and the general physicians held a one-day meeting on 11 March 2010 at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts devoted to the prevention and treatment of diabetic kidney disease. In the Republic of Maced...

James Ciment, New York 141 In an effort to cope with the medical and psychological needs of children among the Kosovar refugees, Unicef has embarked on several immunisation and counselling programmes in Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Last week, the agency began immunising around 9000 children under the age of 5 who had fled to refugee camps in Macedonia. The vaccinations included in the pr...

"Volume 2022 (2022): Issue 354 (Nov 2022): Republic of North Macedonia: Request for an Arrangement under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line-Press Release; Staff Report; Statement by Executive Director Macedonia" published on 29 Nov International Monetary Fund.

Manuscript received August 10, 2012. Toni Stojanovski, Faculty of Informatics, European University, bld. Kliment Ohridski 68, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia. (phone: +389 78 396 693, e-mail: [email protected]) Ivan Velinov, Faculty of Informatics, European University, bld Kliment Ohridski 68, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia. (e-mail: [email protected]) Marko Vučković, Faculty of Informati...

The development of clinical haematology in Macedonia has taken place over the past nine decades. The greatest expansion of its development took place in the second half of the 20th century. The oficial start of clinical haematology dates from 1956, when the Department of Haematology was founded within the framework of the Internal Medicine Clinic in Skopje. In the beginning, haematology represe...

This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless ne...

OBJECTIVES Despite a 92-99% national vaccination coverage since 2000, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia experienced a large measles outbreak between 2010 and 2011. Here we investigate the characteristics of patients hospitalized during this outbreak at the Clinic of Infectious Diseases in Skopje. METHODS Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data of 284 measles patients, including ...

BACKGROUND Fanconi anemia is a rare autosomal recessive or X-linked disorder characterised by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Most fanconi anemia patients harbour homozygous or double heterozygous mutations in the FANCA (60-65%), FANCC (10-15%), FANCG (~10%) or FANCD2 (3-6%) genes. We have already reported the FANCA variant c.190-256_283+1680del2040dupC as a founder mutation among Macedonia...