ZAGREB, June 1, 2018 - Croatian Interior Minister Davor Božinović opened the 26th International Meeting on Forensic Medicine Alpe-Adria-Pannonia in the northern Adriatic city of Pula on Friday.

ZAGREB, May 31, 2018 - A delegation of the World Bank, led by Fadia Saadah, Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, held talks with the director of the Croatian Emergency Medicine Institute Maja Grba Bujević in Karlovac on Thursday about the effects of the World Bank loan and the future support to the development of the emergency medicine service.

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - Health Minister Milan Kujundžić said on Wednesday that the situation with measles in Croatia was not serious in epidemiological terms and that he did not expect that an isolated case in Dubrovnik might harm the tourist season.

Due to lower vaccination rates, there is a danger of a wider epidemic.

ZAGREB, May 27, 2018 - The European Stroke Organisation (ESO) has awarded two Zagreb hospitals for the quality of acute stroke care – the Sveti Duh hospital has been awarded a platinum status and the KB Dubrava hospital a gold status.

ZAGREB, May 25, 2018 - Croatia is ranked 30th in terms of healthcare access and quality, The Lancet medical journal has reported based on a survey of 195 countries and territories.

ZAGREB, May 12, 2018 - About a thousand nurses marched through the centre of Zagreb on Saturday on the occasion of International Nurses Day, protesting against low wages and inadequate work conditions.

ZAGREB, May 2, 2018 - The centre of excellence and education of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) was formally opened on Wednesday in the Dubrava clinical hospital in Zagreb by President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and the Federation's leader Nam Cho.

ZAGREB, April 23, 2018 - According to a report by the Croatian Institute of Public Health (HZJZ), last year the number of children that were vaccinated continued to fall, for the sixth year in a row, and the greatest fall in vaccinations for MPR against measles, rubella and mumps was recorded with 2-year olds, followed by vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough as well as vaccines against Hepatitis type B.

ZAGREB, April 15, 2018 - The life expectancy of Zagreb residents was 79.6 years in 2017, almost four years longer than in 2003 when it was 76 years, according to figures released on the occasion of World Health Day.