A pan-European survey shows that compared with other European countries, Estonia is the only one where children’s exposure to internet threats has decreased in the last eight years. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia. Multinational research network EU Kids Online has published the preliminary results of a pan-European survey on children’s internet […]
On 21 January, the first EU patients were, for the first time, able to use their e-prescriptions, issued by their home doctors, in another European Union country – namely Estonia. This means that Finnish patients can now go to a pharmacy in Estonia and retrieve their medicine, prescribed electronically by their doctor in Finland, the
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The Estonian government-backed project to collect the DNA samples of 100,000 Estonians has accomplished it; the next step is to collect the data from additional 50,000 individuals and develop a more personalised medicine system in the country. The ambitious project started in April 2018, with the aim of collecting genetic data and integrating it into
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In a recent study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, it was revealed Estonia ranked second among the world’s wealthy nations in men’s drug overdose deaths after the United States – 20 in 100,000 deaths were due to a drug overdose in 2015. Researchers from the US National Cancer Institute used “high-quality death
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Minudoc, launched in Estonia, is a new telemedical service that ensures a convenient doctor’s appointment is never more than a video call away. Like in many countries, access to your GP is becoming harder and harder. Oftentimes you have to wait a few days for an appointment, with some people even opting for a visit
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The Estonian government will allocate €5 million to a development project that aims to collect the genetic data of 100,000 people and integrate it into everyday medical practice by giving people feedback of their personal genetic risks. The general purpose of the project is to boost the development of personalised medicine in Estonia, the country’s
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There is a worldwide epidemic of sedentarism – in countries throughout the world, particularly in the developed nations, we simply spend too much time sitting and not enough time on our feet; Dr Ragnar Viir calls Estonians to rise up. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall –
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The Hille Tänavsuu Gift of Life Cancer Treatment Foundation, an Estonian fund that helps cancer patients buy lifesaving medicine, asks for Estonian-Americans’ help to give a hundred Estonian cancer patients the chance for a longer life. The foundation wishes to celebrate the country’s centennial by helping a hundred cancer patients get a chance for a
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Estonia ranks 12th in this year’s Bertelsmann Foundation’s Social Justice in the EU index; however, the country ranks lowest in health-related issues, like the people’s healthy lifespan and inequality across income groups. “Across the six social justice dimensions that comprise our index, Estonia places among the top ten in three dimensions (intergenerational justice, labor market
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The Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Helsinki and the Tallinn University of Technology are collaborating in a research to find cure for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson′s disease is a disorder in which nerve cells in certain areas of the brain start to degenerate – ie die – massively for reasons that are unclear so
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