Health

Less Greek teenagers use condoms during sexual intercourse, according to a new survey conducted by the University Mental Health Research Institute in Athens. "Sexual Behaviour and Health of Teenagers" is part of a national study conducted by the institute and...

On November 14, Tut Khoryom Nyuon received Australia's 2019 HESTA Aged Care Award for his commitment to caring for the elderly in the Tempelstowe Fronditha Aged Care Facility in Melbourne. This would have been a somewhat ordinary event -- if...

According to a new study conducted in the last several days by the Greek organization ''National Transparency,'' Greek society looks like it has turned a corner and begun to comply to a great extent with the new smoking ban...

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented a new, National Action Plan against smoking on Tuesday, a cornerstone of one of his main priorities, to completely change Greece's historically loose approach to smoking in public places. "The smoking ban is a bold initiative...

A Joint Ministerial Decision published in Greece's Government Gazette on Friday enforces new, much tougher fines for those who violate the smoking ban in public places in Greece. The new fines came to effect on Monday, November 18, as the...

Greece has the dubious distinction of coming in first place among European countries in the excessive use of antibiotics, a phenomenon which actually poses a grave threat to public health, scientists warned in Athens on Tuesday. Kyriaki Kanellakopoulou, a professor...

The groundbreaking discoveries of a research group based in the USA were presented at the Olympia Health & Nutrition Awards conference in Athens, Greece in May. Dr. Khalid El Sayed revealed that oleocanthal, a natural phenolic compound found in...

Greek scientists in Thessaloniki have used the technology of a centrifuge machine used by NASA and the ESA to create a device to help people who suffer from problems related to an inability to exercise. The centrifuge is used in...

Greece trails behind other European countries in organ donations, the Athens Medical Association (AMA) said on Thursday, but donations are nevertheless on the rise. At an event ahead of Friday's national Organ Donation Day, the AMA speakers said that the...

Greeks throughout the world have rallied to the cause of 18-month-old Panagiotis-Rafael Glossiotis, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). His parents announced on Wednesday that they had raised 3.1 million euros to finally be able to send the toddler...

Dr. Apostolos Papageorgiou, a Greek-Canadian physician at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital (JGH), was honored recently with a prestigious international award from the World Association of Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Papageorgiou, the Chief of Pediatrics and Neonatology at JGH, won the Erich...

Archbishop of America Elpidophoros sent a letter on Friday to the family of Panagiotis Rafael Glossiotis, an 18-month old toddler who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Panagiotis Rafael's family is fighting a campaign to raise approximately 3 million euros...

The family of 18-month-old Panagiotis-Rafael Glossiotis from Halkida on the island of Evia, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is fighting a campaign to raise almost 3 million euros to send the toddler to the US for treatment. Greek...

A majority of Greek lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of the new anti-smoking bill - the third such legislation passed in Greece in the last decade. The new law includes stricter penalties and is tougher on those who smoke...

The Greek government is planning to tighten up procedures for providing free health care and other benefits to thousands of migrants and asylum seekers. According to a circular issued this week to all state agencies by the Labor Ministry, the...