Health

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) of the Council of Europe published a report on Tuesday which strongly criticizes Greece. The main focus of the report is on how some of...

Greek health authorities have become increasingly concerned over the past several weeks as fifty-six people have died of flu complications so far this year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Thursday. The particular flu virus strain H1N1, which...

A 49-year-old man in Chania, Crete who died on Thursday at a local hospital is the latest victim of this year's influenza outbreak in Greece. His death brings the number of fatalities from influenza since last November to thirty-nine; twenty...

Athenians and tourists can now buy cannabis products from a vending machine which was installed earlier this week in the center of the Greek capital. The machine, which is seen by some industry watchers as a potentially important part of...

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety launched a verbal attack on Monday against  Greek deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis for smoking in public. Vytenis Andrikaitis, who is visiting Athens, held up a 2016 photo of Polakis smoking during a press conference in...

A 32-year-old Greek woman is on course to give birth to a baby boy carrying DNA from three people. She participated in the first known clinical trial carried out using the Maternal Spindle Transfer technique (MST) for the treatment of...

Greek scientist Dr. Antonis Antoniou, a professor in the field of cancer risk prediction and a lead researcher at the University of Cambridge, is gaining ground in the battle against breast cancer. He is currently leading a research group which...

An outbreak of influenza, commonly known as the winter flu, has killed 18 people across the country in just one week, Greek public health authorities revealed on Friday. New data from the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO)...

It's a little early to say now, but the story of this brilliant Greek-English surgeon might end up becoming one of the biggest stories of 2019. The British weekly The Economist believes this story of a doctor who conceived and...

A new study commissioned by the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, the National School of Public Health and the universities of Patra and Macedonia has revealed that  cigarette smoking in Greece has been drastically reduced. Credit for this sea...

The holiday season has an additional meaning to workers at Greece's largest maternity hospital. The babies in their care are not enveloped in the normal comforts of home and family which we especially associate with the Christmas season, but...

File photo Greek children are among the most overweight in Europe because of their poor eating habits. One in two adults over 60 years of age suffer from hyperlipidemia and/or high blood pressure, and more than one in ten Greek...

A combination of being overweight, not engaging in enough physical activity and an unbalanced diet is the culprit for the growing number of Greeks who are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study conducted by...

By: Phil Butler* According to Dyslexia International, the number of children and adults worldwide who are at risk of lifelong illiteracy because of dyslexia may top 700 million. Some experts say the real number is even higher, and that the...

Cancer can turn from a terminal to a chronic illness within the next 10 years, said surgeon oncologist Yiannis Spiliotis on Sunday. The director of Clinical Counseling at the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki and the Athens Medical Center made...