For more than fifty years, smoking has not been an issue in the village of Skotino in the Hersonissos municipality of Heraklion, Crete in Greece, as no resident has taken a puff of a cigarette.
The picturesque little town is...
Two cases of hantavirus have been confirmed after three people died and another was left seriously ill in a suspected outbreak onboard a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
A Dutch husband and wife and a German passenger died, with...
U.S. regulators are weighing a potential shift in how peptide products are controlled. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing whether to expand access to certain peptides, even as questions remain about their safety and effectiveness.
According to...
An AI tool developed by the Mayo Clinic can spot pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to three years before doctors diagnose the disease, according to a new study published in Gut by the British Society of Gastroenterology.
The...
Greece is facing one of Europe’s highest child obesity rates, with recent data showing that 30% to 42% of children in the country are overweight or obese, while 15% to 20% are classified as obese.
The figures place Greece second...
Cryopreservation allows scientists to freeze transplant organs at extremely low temperatures. For years, researchers have explored its use in transplant medicine. A major step came in 2023, when scientists at the University of Minnesota transplanted a cryopreserved kidney into...
US President Donald Trump announced reforms on Saturday intended to speed up access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs.
Research focuses on certain psychedelic drugs that can be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic...
According to a new study, Greece has reached a critical turning point in maternal health, reporting the highest number of Cesarean sections (C-sections) per one hundred births in the European Union.
While the global average for C-sections sat at 22%...
People who have never married face a dramatically higher cancer risk than those who have ever been married, a major new U.S. study has found. Researchers analyzed more than 4.2 million cancer cases across 12 states from 2015 to...
Injectable peptides are the new anti-ageing trend sweeping the beauty industry. But are they safe?
By Timothy Piatkowski, Bahareh Ahmadinejad & Samuel Cornell
These compounds are promoted on social media as tools for skin repair, collagen production and “cellular rejuvenation”. They...
In Greece, the Easter table is more than just a meal. It is a cultural cornerstone defined by abundance. However, according to statistics, the average holiday weight gain, amounting to over a pound (up to 1 kg), has become...
How well a person reads their own body signals may shape their consciousness and sense of time, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychology.
The study, led by Olga Klamut from the Department of Psychiatry at Charles University...
Greek researchers at the "Archimedes" AI Research Center have developed a pioneering software that relies on artificial intelligence to evaluate the function of the heart's right ventricle using standard 2D echocardiograms.
Created by invasive cardiologist Polydoros Kampaktsis and data scientist...
A medical milestone was achieved in Greece this week with the country’s first successful heart TAVI-in-TAVI procedure to treat a degenerated 31 mm CoreValve self-expanding aortic bioprosthesis that had been implanted fifteen years ago.
TAVI stands for Transcatheter Aortic Valve...
People who feel restless or slightly off during a full moon may not be imagining it. New research suggests that sleep patterns shift around the full moon, including the spring “Pink Moon,” even when moonlight is not visible.
The study,...
