Happiness and suicide in European nations - Lester D.
For 16 European nations, a measure of happiness from a social survey was not associated with either national male or female suicide rates. The nations in the sample were Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norw... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

Corrigendum: Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of psychiatric patients who have committed suicide: analysis of Bulgarian Regional Suicidal Registry for 10 years - Stoychev K, Dimitrova E, Nakov V, Stoimenova-Popova M, Chumpalova P, Veleva I, Mineva-Dimitrova E, Dekov D.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.665154] A Corrigendum on Socio-Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Psychiatric Patients Who Have Committed Suicide: Analysis of Bulgarian Regional Suicidal Registry for 10 Years by Stoyc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Victims or intruders? Refugee portrayals in the news in Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK - Ozdora-Aksak E, Connolly-Ahern C, Dimitrova D.
News shapes audiences' views of people and events beyond their immediate physical environment. Since the mass migration of refugees from Syria represents one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history, its news coverage necessarily shaped the way g... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Omicron Set to Be Dominant Variant in Europe By Mid-January
BRUSSELS — Omicron is expected to be the dominant coronavirus variant in the European Union’s 27 nations by mid-January, the bloc’s top official said today amid concerns that a dramatic rise in infections will leave Europe shrouded in gloom during the holiday season. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is well prepared to fight omicron with 66.6% of its population fully vaccinated. She expressed disappointment that the pandemic will again disrupt year-end celebrations but said she was confident the EU has the “strength” and “means” to overcome COVID-19. &...
Source: TIME: Health - December 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SAMUEL PETREQUIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Bulgaria bus crash: Survivors broke window to flee inferno that killed 46
At least 46 people, including 12 children, died when the vehicle caught fire on a Bulgarian motorway. #buscrash #motorway (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bulgaria bus crash: Children among at least 45 killed
At least 46 people, including 12 children, died when a bus returning to North Macedonia caught fire. #northmacedonia #buscrash (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Flaming bus crash in Bulgaria kills 45 North Macedonian tourists
At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria hours before daybreak on Tuesday, officials said. #buscrash #tourists #macedonian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bulgaria Bus Crash Kills Dozens
The bus, which had North Macedonian plates, caught fire on a highway, a fire official said. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The DNA of Roma People Has Long Been Misused, Scientists Reveal
An op-ed in Nature calls for higher ethical standards in the usage and analysis of genetic information from the Romani, a marginalized group in Europe. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sabrina Imbler Tags: your-feed-science Romani People Genetics and Heredity Forensic Science DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Nature (Journal) Bulgaria Hungary India Source Type: news

Mayo Clinic Medical Student Wins SignatureCare Emergency Center ’s 2021...
Dzhuliyan (Jay) Vasilev, a Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, AZ Campus medical student says his decision to enter the medical profession was influenced by the death of his grandparents in Bulgaria.(PRWeb November 16, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/mayo_clinic_medical_student_wins_signaturecare_emergency_centers_2021_fall_medical_and_health_scholarship/prweb18336580.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - November 16, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Try, try and try again: why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
Homo sapiens migrated to the continent in waves – but the reasons for their early failures to overcome Neanderthals are a mysteryModern humans made several failed attempts to settle in Europe before eventually taking over the continent. This is the stark conclusion of scientists who have been studying the course of Homo sapiens’s exodus from Africa tens of thousands of years ago.Researchers have recently pinpointed sites in Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic where our ancestors ’ remains have been dated as being between 40,000 to 50,000 years old. However, bone analyses have produced genetic profiles that have ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Science editor Tags: Evolution UK news Europe Science World news Neanderthals Africa Anthropology Source Type: news

Bulgaria sees record COVID-19 deaths amid low vaccinations
Bulgaria had 334 COVID-19 patients die in a single day, the country’s highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

If others drive intoxicated, so may I: determinants for young drivers in Bulgaria - Vankov D, Chiers J, Vankov B.
Young drivers' crash risk increases as a result of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (DUI) due to impaired driving. There is little evidence about the DUI determinants in middle-income countries, such as Bulgaria, a gap addressed by this arti... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Romania, Bulgaria hit pandemic death highs amid vaccines lag
Romania has reported a record daily number of 591 COVID-19 deaths amid a persistently low vaccination rate (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Bulgaria's hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 infection surge
Medical workers at Bulgaria’s main emergency hospital are waging an uphill battle as a surge in coronavirus cases has overwhelmed the country’s ailing health care system (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news