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Read whenever you have the chance

I have been reading for as long as I can remember. As it goes with any great love, I cannot explain when, how and why this love for reading has developed but I know that books have been part of my life since my earliest age.

Ronald Seeliger
Hemofarm Group CEO

INTERVIEW - Ronald Seeliger (Hemofarm): “Big challenge starts always with little steps"

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A healthy dose of life

Growing up in Vršac, surrounded by the love and support of my family from early childhood, with constant encouragement to spend time in nature, it was completely expected that walks on the Vršac hill and cycling would become my routine. As a young gymnast at the ’Partizan’ school, I discovered the excitement of pushing the limits, striving for perfection with every movement I made, but when I first sat on a bike, I realized that it would be my motivation to win over myself and improve my vitality.

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I Found Peace and Calm in Handicraft

The period when we were confined to apartments and houses due to the coronavirus epidemic brought big changes in life for many, including me as well. I had to fill up my extra time somehow in the lockdown. Reading, movies, yoga - but somehow, it didn't seem enough to me. I had to create something tangible, useful, beautiful. As a mother of three daughters always needing some fashion accessories, I began knitting thread bracelets.

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My Football and Futsal Journey

The European Football Championship 2024 (EURO 2024) in Germany has started, so it’s just completely natural for me to write about how I got hooked on football...

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Travel whenever you can because travel is a source of energy and health

My love for photography and travel encouraged me to write about the places and countries I visited on my Instagram profile @julija_sekulic. ...

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How I have United my Passion for Quizzes and Sport

It is 19 h exactly and my whole family is in front of the TV set. The famous Skočko mascot appears on the screen. TV Slagalica quiz is about to begin. This has been so for thirty years already.

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Humanity from the heart: Four decades of donating blood

My story about voluntary blood donation goes back to 1982, during my military service in Senta....

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Badminton Is An Ideal Good Health Ally

Ever since I was a little boy, sport was an inseparable part of my life — starting with archery when I was just seven years old, through volleyball, to a recently discovered passion for badminton.

Sanda Savić
Senior Director Corporate Affairs and Communications, Hemofarm

Hemofarm’s Sustainable Development in Action

Tracking the ambitious SDGs, Hemofarm (a STADA Group member) has resolutely committed to keep on strongly investing in the development by 2030 and show to others, by own example, that changes for the better are always possible. To that aim, STADA EXPO multimedia platform, a unique and sublimed showcase of everything achieved in the area of sustainable development over the course of previous years, set out for its European tour from Vršac at the end of last year.

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Two Wheels Can Take You to a Healthier Life

In the whirl of daily life, between our jobs, raising three kids and building a house, we have come to the point of neglecting what is the most important thing – and that is our health.

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Hemofarm employees save two baby owls

Monday, start of a business week, we were ready for new work duties...

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Years are not an obstacle to achieving your dream

One of my lifelong wishes was to fly a paraglider. But flying is not just about wishing - besides determination and courage, ideal weather conditions are necessary.

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Even When it is Hard, There is no Giving Up

Ever since I have exited my own and a couple of neighbouring streets on my bicycle, I am constantly pushing the boundaries, both spatial and of my own abilities.

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In harmony with nature

I have always been a sport aficionado. I actively played volleyball and tennis, and I did my best to maintain the training routine; however, my commitments at work and at home somehow prevailed and I found it hard to organise all of these.

Sanda Savić
Senior Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications, Hemofarm

STADA EXPO as an innovation for a better future

STADA EXPO is a multimedia exhibition which is a story of sustainable development.

Aleksandra Gazivoda
Corporate Communications Specialist, Hemofarm

Waiting for Most Important Call

Only 13 approvals for organ donation were endorsed in Serbia over the last year, owing to which 32 people were saved.

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Skiing is the Next Best Thing to Having Wings

A little more than ten years ago, listening to the nice experiences of others and wanting to try something new, skiing became a part of my life, giving me a fantastic experience.

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Some people and some friends may disappoint you, but not your dog

If someone had told me a few years ago that a dog would be a part of my family, I would have thought they were joking. A dog in the house? No way.

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Caring Day

I donated blood for the first time in my fourth year of high school. I remember that there was a drive organized to promote voluntary donation...

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Caring Day

Before I started working at Hemofarm, I regularly went to hospital to donate blood...

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Caring Day

In addition to being a blood donor, I am also an angler and a marathon runner...

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Caring Day

When we say: ‘Donating blood’, I always think: Well, can there be a better and more valuable gift?

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Caring Day

Donating blood is very important to me. When I was even younger, eight years ago, after being persuaded by my older brother, I donated blood for the first time.

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Caring Day

I donated blood for the first time while I was serving in the army in 1983. Since then, I have donated blood 96 times in total...

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Fighting anxiety and stress with yoga

When I am asked to explain what yoga is, the first thought is unity - the unity of spirit, breath and body.

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Moving against daily stress

Moving is very important to me. My job is very demanding and it sometimes requires sitting for hours staring at the computer screen with my fingers on the keyboard.

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How I beat myself?

Have you ever read Politikin Zabavnik and do you remember the ‘Life Writes Dramas’ column? Well, that’s how I, as if my story were in that column, after a spine injury and surgery

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Mountaineering as Logical Choice

We, the citizens of Vršac, are lucky to live at the foot of the Vršac Mountains. Hiking is within everyone’s reach; there are many marked trails...

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Why is boxing noble art?

As most of the good things do, boxing appeared in my life incidentally and has remained there for more than 7 years...

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Rea – the Dog that Changed my Life

As a great animal lover – a former volunteer at the Belgrade Zoo, I realized that animals should not live in cages or flats.

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Marathon man out of spite

How have I become a marathon runner? I don’t know. Maybe by chance, maybe out of spite. Anyway, it started rather unpretentiously.

Ronald Seeliger
Hemofarm Group CEO

Waiting for the most important call

Recently, I’ve read a touching story about the meeting of two mothers who were connected by a personal tragedy in a lifelong friendship. Early in 2020, 21-year-old Stefan had an accident, after which he was in a coma. Despite enormous efforts of the doctors, he was declared brain dead. The Vasiljevic family had no idea that it would come to that, but they had the opportunity to fulfill Stefan’s wish that his organs would be donated if something happened to him.

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How I started trail running?

Marathon runner! This is how my friends and colleagues often introduce me to others....

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Being in motion as a way of life

Already in my childhood, owing to my parents, I grew to love regular physical activities. First it was skiing, then tennis, and after that regular hiking and mountaineering

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More than a game

I played table football back in my high school days. In the 1990s, every coffee shop that lived up to its reputation had a table, usually an Italian Fabi...

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Keep it Simple

Habits are most difficult to change. It took me a lot of time to switch from what I liked to eat and whenever I wanted to eat, to beginning to eat healthily and at determined time.

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Jacket – fashion item or protection against energy loss?

Have you ever asked yourself if jacket is just a fashion item or much more than that? One engineer example, far from the world of fashion, demonstrates that jacket is in fact the best protection against loss of energy – both in a manufacturing plant, in a production process, and in everyday life, when we are exposed to extreme weather conditions…

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Sleep disorders on the rise

Roughly one third of our lives is spent sleeping: this is the time for our brains to process the events of the day and for our bodies to regenerate and heal. A lack of sleep can have a severe and lasting impact on our overall health – especially when we fail to get enough rest over extended periods of time.

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Food intolerances

Do you feel unwell after eating certain foods? It may be that your body does not tolerate certain foods. This may be because of a food intolerance: you don't have enough of the enzymes required to process substances such as lactose or histamine.

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Blog - STADA Health Report 2022

Europe, early summer 2021: Covid vaccination programmes across Europe were in full flow, bringing the prospect of returning to life more like we knew it before the pandemic. But had the virus changed the way we lived irreversibly?

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#HealthStories: Climb your Everest

As part of our #HealthStories series, we spoke with Zinovy Slavinsky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), the oldest mountain climber on the planet, who climbed the highest peak in Europe - Elbrus - at the age of 86. Zinovy talks about his attitude to the mountains, about regular physical exercises which help to maintain health and vigor even at the age of 90.

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#HealthStories: Nourish your Body, Feed the Soul

Berlin-based restaurant owner and artist Jinok Kim-Eicken talks about her motivation for healthy eating and the influence of her Korean heritage. For Jinok, nutrition means bringing elements into harmony in the preparation of dishes as well as keeping body and soul in balance: "Food connects, means sharing and creates community."

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Preventive healthcare

With everyday life largely on hold due to Covid-19, it was not only fun events that had to be canceled: Almost 1 in 5 Europeans have postponed a healthcare appointment during the pandemic. At first thought, this seems sensible, as the majority of us did our best to avoid leaving the house – and the doctor’s office was certainly the last place to go voluntarily if not absolutely necessary.

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Healthy Lifestyle and Supplements

A lesson we learned last year: Health always comes first. Our coexistence is affected when everyone’s health is at stake. It thus comes as no surprise that a healthy lifestyle has become more important for 1 in 2 Europeans. And within this trend, food supplements, which can be taken to support our health, have found themselves at the centre of a certain COVID-induced hype.

Nico Leenaarts

#HealthStories: Get yourself moving

As part of our Health Stories series, we spoke with Nico about why and how parkour inspires him and remains a passion...

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Take your Time

How does a mindful approach to the body influence our health? As part of our Health Stories series, we spoke with Franzi, who takes us on her personal mindfulness journey and inspires us to bring body and mind into harmony.