For years, the Greek island of Ikaria has enjoyed global fame for its longevity, celebrated as "the island where people forget to die." Alongside Okinawa and other designated "Blue Zones," Ikaria became a multi-billion-dollar brand, inspiring books, wellness documentaries,...
A new psychological framework, referred to as the "Equation of Enough," aims to determine whether a person's daily life at a given moment is actually sustainable in the long run. Antonis Chatzipanagiotou, an independent researcher based in Athens, Greece,...
Deaths among children under five fell in Greece between 2016 and 2020, but a new study finds most of these deaths trace back to causes tied to birth, not later in childhood.
The study, led by Maria Tzoraki of the...
An AI model trained on Greek hospital records predicted surgical complication risks with 94.3% accuracy, according to a new study that points to a possible path for earlier warnings in hospital surgery units.
The study was led by Constantinos Koutsojannis...
The balmy weather in the Mediterranean is the perfect environment to produce nutritious, delicious Greek herbs.
These plants that have been known for centuries and are used both in cooking for their flavors as well as in medicine for their...
Silphium is a word not many of us have heard before, and there is good reason for this. This was not just another herb used in ancient medicine. Instead, the silphium plant was the kind of thing that was...
Ancient Greeks were big believers in aphrodisiacs and ancient love potions and used a variety of fruits, herbs, and other foods in their concoctions. The word "aphrodisiac" itself comes from the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
Those looking to...
Greece’s Ombudsman, the country’s independent administrative watchdog, received more than 20,000 complaints in a single year for the first time in its history, according to its latest quarterly bulletin, highlighting persistent failures across the country’s public administration.
The Ombudsman reported...
Researchers have developed an AI-designed vaccine that could protect against a broad range of coronaviruses, including future strains that have not yet emerged.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge say the project marks the first time an Artificial Intelligence-designed vaccine...
Sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis and gonorrhoea, reached record levels across Europe in 2024, according to new data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The agency said both infections recorded their highest numbers in more...
A new cancer injection has shown promising results in patients whose disease had stopped responding to standard treatments, with doctors reporting that the therapy eliminated tumors in some cases. The treatment, called amivantamab, was tested in an international clinical...
The latest wellness phenomenon to sweep TikTok, dubbed "Ocean Therapy," has deep roots in Ancient Greece. The very name it's formally known by, thalassotherapy, reveals its origins, stemming directly from the Greek words thalassa (sea) and therapeia (healing or...
