The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified bird flu of high pathogenicity in Poland’s Lublinsk and Velikopolsk administrative provinces, Trend reports via Azerbaijan’s Food Safety Agency.

For centuries, lack of sleep was considered to lead to stress and anxiety, poor memory and various illnesses. Even nowadays, many people tend to believe that the more hours of sleep you have the better. However, numerous studies prove that both lack of sleep and oversleeping can result in body disorders.

Turkey will assign medical staff to Turkish diagnostic centers in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, Minister of Health of Turkey Fahrettin Koja said, Trend reports citing Turkish media.

Azerbaijan’s mandatory health insurance system will cover about 2.2 million people in 20 northern regions of the country at the first stage.

It is impossible to imagine the modern world without computers, information technology, and the Internet. They have already managed to become a huge part of each person’s life. With that being said, it is no coincidence that social media is also becoming ever so popular.

Azerbaijani State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance is implementing a project to standardize laboratories in the state health facilities working on mandatory health insurance, Trend reports referring to the Agency.

The system of compulsory medical insurance in Azerbaijan will start operating Jan. 1 next year, the country’s Deputy Healthcare Minister Elsevar Agayev said, Trend reports Nov. 6.

Azerbaijani Ministry of Healthcare has prepared proposals to simplify the registration of imported medicines and customs procedures, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Healthcare Elsevar Aghayev told reporters, Trend reports.

Azerbaijan International Medical Innovations Exhibition and Forum Medinex will create an opportunity to review the global development trends in the field of healthcare, present the products and services, meet with potential partners and strengthen the existing ties, head of the project Anar Valiyev told Trend at the press-conference in Baku.

Since 2016, Azerbaijan has been preparing for the introduction of compulsory health insurance that will be applied in January 2020.

Unawareness of the citizens and lack of educational works may cause serious problems in the insurance market of every country.

Drug addiction in Azerbaijan has recently slightly increased, which negatively affects the youth. The government has begun the new stage in the process of taking comprehensive steps to tackle this serious disease among the population.

Dire need in health insurance in the case of expensive medical service is severe issue which settlement is already underway.

For thousands of years, people around the world have believed in the healing powers of Naftalan oil which can be found at high-end spas in Azerbaijan.

In recent years, Azerbaijan has taken solid steps to improve medical sector, including enhancing the efficiency of health care, implementing infrastructure projects and application of effective policies which are aimed to increase the transparency of the health care system in the country.

The medical institutions will be accredited every five years in Azerbaijan, Trend reports on June 27.

Azerbaijan has joined the Charter of the International Committee of Military Medicine, Trend reports.

The Azerbaijani government takes great care of patients with hemophilia with not only providing them with free medicines, but also helping them maintain a healthy lifestyle and improving the quality of their life.

The World Health Organization (WHO) highly appreciated the measures on epidemiological control and immunization carried out in Azerbaijan against measles and rubella, Javahir Suleymanova, specialist in infectious diseases at the WHO office in Azerbaijan, told Trend.

The number of tuberculosis patients in Azerbaijan last year decreased by three percent compared to 2017.

The issue of collection of contributions for compulsory medical insurance from the tax administration in Azerbaijan should be considered.

Private clinics will be granted the right to carry out the removal of donor organs and transplantation surgeries in Azerbaijan.

Today, a significant number of Azerbaijani citizens need organ transplantation.

New cases of measles have been recorded in Azerbaijan.

Farma Shah LLC, a producer of medicinal plants in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR), plans to export its products to Russia, a source at the company told Trend.