The Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the” Trakia” hospital in Bulgaria’s Stara Zagora has performed the first in this country surgery of the middle ear in the treatment Cholesteatoma using a specialized navigation system. Cholesteatoma is aggressive disease of the middle ear, which causes bone destruction. The operation was carried out in early August and has very good early postoperative results. The assistance of the endoscopic system allows the circumvention of healthy bone structures that obscure the field and which need to be removed when working with a microscope. The surgical navigation system could be usefully applied in the treatment of tumors in the middle ear and the base of the skull, experts from hospital say.
More than 10 folklore groups, cooks and artisans from Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece will gather at the "Balkantea" festival in Sozopol from 16 to 18 September. The event will be officially opened by the Mayor of Sozopol, Tihomir Yanakiev, at the..
More than 32,000 Bulgarian children in 43 countries on 6 continents will be heading for the 396 Bulgarian Sunday schools around the world registered for the school year 2024-2025. More than 2,000 teachers will be teaching them to read and write in..
Twenty artists will take part in the Lucky Hunt Sofia Graffiti Festival on September 14 and 15. They will spray over 1000 square metres in Sofia. The event is dedicated to pets and classic cars, say the organisers - the Sofia Graffiti Tour team in..
An unusual opening of the new school year was made by the students and teachers of the Bulgarian school "Asen and Ilia Peikov" in Rome and Florence. The..
A six-day handicrafts festival in Veliko Tarnovo kicks off the celebrations of Bulgaria's 116th anniversary of independence , reports BNR correspondent..
On 17 October, after a break of several years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the fifth edition of the "EcoMunicipality - Sustainable City and Society"..
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