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Health

03.June 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Only compulsory vaccination of children eradicates HPV

"When we started talking to parents in Serbia about why they should vaccinate their children against HPV, we realized that a large number of them do not know what diseases this virus causes," says Gordana Plemić. "In addition to them, we noticed another group of parents who are absolutely familiar with the problem. Simply, because they have it. These are parents suffering from HPV, mainly women with malignant or pre-malignant changes on the cervix, which is a large number of them."

Clinic for infectious diseases, Novi Sad

Health care

26.May 2026. Katarina Stevanović

A rat in an infectious disease clinic: What the case from Novi Sad says about hospitals in Serbia

While the government is talking about historic investments in health care, employees and patients have been warning for years about moisture, rodents, breakdowns and the decay of certain hospital buildings, and it also happened that a worker was bitten by a rat.

Health care

11.May 2026. KS

Abolition of the waiting list for pending operations

After a sharp drop in early February, the number of people on waiting lists for health examinations has stagnated. What is happening with their long-announced cancellation

Health care

09.April 2026. KS

Why does Serbia lack 6.000 doctors?

Chronic staff shortages, low wages and bad management are further collapsing Serbia's healthcare system

Interview: Eva Kammerer, philosopher

09.April 2026. Ivan Milenkovic

Origin of cancer

The organism is no longer viewed in the usual way, but as a society of cells that have established a stable cooperation during long organic evolution. Thus, viewed from an evolutionary perspective, cancer appears as a rival that we may not be able to eliminate, since it is a remnant of the natural history in which we arose. So it's probably better to accept him as a legitimate doppelgänger to live with. Efforts in modern medicine to keep this disease under control, as well as some other chronic diseases, are going in that direction

From the new issue of "Vremena"

08.April 2026. JK

Transgender people claim that they were abused for research in Belgrade

Several transgender persons, the source of "Vremena", claim that the head of endocrinology of the UKCS, Svetlana Vujović, referred them for an examination, the results of which they never received - allegedly, for the purposes of the doctor's research

Navigator

11.march 2026 Zoran Stanojević

Dr. Google and Mr. Claude

The problem with Google Medicine is not that it gives wrong answers but that it doesn't understand the context and doesn't know the "patient"

Chronicle

10.February 2026. KS

"How did the child die?": Protest in Čačak due to the suspicious death of the girl in the hospital

After a routine operation on the third tonsil in the hospital in Čačak, a four-year-old girl died. The people of Čač protest and demand responsibility. What other suspicious deaths in hospitals shook Serbia

Last year, the health inspectorate discovered only three entities that allegedly carry out medical treatments without any papers.

From the new issue of "Vremena"

03.December 2025 MO / NR

Boom of quacks in Serbia: They break bones and inject botox

Last year, the health inspectorate discovered only three entities that allegedly carry out medical treatments without any papers. And there are many more of them, from healers to beauticians who give dangerous injections, "Vreme" reveals

Migration industry

05.November 2025 Andrea Grunau / DW

Germany "imports" nurses en masse, but lacks a "welcoming culture"

Germany employs nurses from abroad, they come in hundreds of thousands. But they will only stay in Germany if they feel comfortable there. And that requires much more than an employment contract

In Mexico City, a pioneering program is being implemented in which artificial intelligence and robotic systems perform most of the IVF procedure.

Navigator

09.October 2025 Zoran Stanojević

It is not news that a man made a robot

Now the question is whether a robot can create a human using a sperm and an egg cell. You guessed the answer. It can

Lekovi

23.September 2025 BB/MLJ

Not a rosy situation: "Women's" pink brufen is back on the market

Women do not need a pink version of brufen, but a health system that will not ignore women's pain, says sociologist Hristina Cvetinčanin Knežević

Difficult transfusions in Serbia

03.September 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

She demands blood from people.

Blood is wanted this summer - but literally. While Transfusion Institutes and the Red Cross appeal that blood supplies are at a minimum, chronic patients suffer because they cannot receive a transfusion when they need it.

Navigator

02.July 2025 Zoran Stanojević

Medical council with rifles

Would you let artificial intelligence make your medical diagnosis and prescribe treatment?

Health

29.May 2025. Katarina Stevanović

What you need to know about the thyroid gland: How to detect the disease in time and how to treat it?

From insomnia and anxiety to cancer, thyroid disorders affect millions of people, and the symptoms can easily be confused with the effects of everyday stress. The author of this text knows this from personal experience, and with the help of experts she brings everything you need to know about one of the most widespread endocrine diseases today.

Organ donation and transplantation

07.May 2025. Katarina Stevanović

The path of an organ

Although the lists number about 2000 patients waiting for a new organ, the number of consents obtained for donation and transplantation, which are carried out annually in Serbia, is far from sufficient to reduce the waiting lists. Those who are on the lists wait for the "most important call" every day, and often lose hope. Someone who has experienced brain death through organ donation, in a way, continues to live in the body of the person to whom the organ was transplanted, but in Serbia the story of transplantation and organ donation is still accompanied by stigma

Science

07.May 2025. Jeanette Zwink/DW

Can artificial intelligence heal us?

What are the scopes of artificial intelligence in medicine - for now?

Cooperation

09.April 2025. Edward Ferguson

Britain and Serbia: Together we save lives

Author's text of the ambassador of Great Britain, Edward Ferguson, about the close ties between Britain and Serbia in the field of health and medicine

Health care

21.January 2025 B. B.

How old are doctors in Serbia on average and how many are there?

Data from the Institute for Public Health of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut" show that almost 68 percent of medical doctors are women. How many doctors are there in Serbia and what is their average age?

Forgotten

15.January 2025 Sonja Ciric

And he didn't hold a grudge against King Alexander...

The king vilified him in the press because he was against his marriage with Drago Mašin, political opponents put him in prison and - until recently, the public forgot him even though Vladan Đorđević was one of those who built modern Serbia

Health

12.August 2024 MJ

Revolutionary discovery: Developed "smart" insulin that reacts only when needed

Scientists have reportedly created a new type of insulin that could be a breakthrough in the treatment of millions of people with type 1 diabetes worldwide. "Smart" insulin waits in the body and is activated only when needed

Education

03.July 2024 SZ

Young people are most interested in medical schools, in order to leave the country more easily

The Forum of Vocational Secondary Schools says that medical schools are the most popular among young people, but they call for an increase in the salaries of health workers so that young people do not leave the country.

Quackery

24.April 2024. S. Z/RTS

Fake doctors and medical staff: How they promote surveillance inspections

A routine procedure turned into a nightmare for student Anđela Ikodinović from Cakč. She's not the only one. Unprofessional and fake doctors and medical staff are opening surgeries all over Serbia, some of them are performing operations in the center of Belgrade, some are supported by numerous media and sponsors. The Ministry of Health says that the control of non-professional doctors is not in the domain of the health inspection

Dossier "Vremena": Health in politics

31.January 2024 Aleksandra Krstić

The use of the reputation of the white coat

In considering the relationship between doctors and politicians, Cunningham wrote in the fifties of the 20th century that the "doctor's dilemma" stems from the fact that politics is a "business of dirty hands", while medicine has always been a profession of "clean hands" - perhaps it can be interpret today's obsessive need of politicians to surround themselves with the support and authority of doctors, surgeons and heads of hospitals

Reproductive

17.November 2023 MJ

Needle-free vaccines coming soon

Needle-free vaccines have been given to adults, children and babies, with the same successful results as previously obtained with the classical method of vaccination.

Reproductive

02.October 2023 MJ

Nobel for Katalin Kirko and Drew Weisman for the development of an mRNA vaccine against covid

Professor Carrico and Professor Weissman met in the early 1990s when they were working at the University of Pennsylvania, USA

Health

07.August 2023 Magda Janjic

Minister Danica Grujičić's message: Workers do not take sick leave out of fear

"On the contrary, it often happens to us that people work seriously ill because they are not allowed to go on sick leave. Or someone might think that there is abuse of sick leave in the notorious Korean Jura," says the president of the Association of Patients of Serbia, Savo Pilipović.