Greek doctors

Greek doctors leading a team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK, outside Cambridge, have made an incredible breakthrough discovery in the fight against acute meloid leukemia (AML). Dr. Konstantinos Tzelepis and Dr. George Vassiliou -- the...

Greek doctors working in the United Kingdom worry that they might lose their jobs after statements by British Prime Minister Theresa May and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Speaking on BBC television on Thursday, May said that the UK National Health...

Greece has a surplus of 20,000 doctors, with the total number reaching almost 70,000, and a substantial percentage of them being unemployed, says a Kathimerini newspaper report. In the past two decades, Greece has produced a number of doctors which...

Two Greek doctors participated in a ground-breaking trial of heart regeneration using stem cells, a finding that could help millions of people with heart failure, says a Telegraph report. Heart attack patients who were not expected to live more than...

Greek government officials held a meeting today to address what they regard as the understaffing problem facing Greece’s public sector. State Minister Flambourakis and deputy minister of administrative reform Vernardakis were among those present at today’s meeting, with participants agreeing...

Representatives of Greece’s association of doctors met with the Minister of Labor to express their opposition to the government’s proposed pension reform plan, hoping that they could make a case for its withdrawal. Alas, their voices fell on deaf...

Greek scientist Sophia Papadakis has travel to Crete in order to implement a program that is going to help people quit smoking. At the moment 38% of the Greek population smokes, making it the leading European country for tobacco...

Doctors, lawyers, engineers and other professionals took it to the streets in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, protesting against the government's plan for social security fund reforms. Thousands of professionals assembled outside the Labor Ministry, demonstrating against the hikes in contributions...

Greece is in violation of European Union law by letting doctors work long hours without proper rest, according to a top EU court. A BBC news report says that ten Greek medical associations filed a complaint to the European Court...

Up to 55.2% of the money paid by patients in Greek health sector establishments is not declared to the tax authorities. According to the General Inspector of Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis, one in three Greeks are still bribing doctors...