medicine

In a Greek TV show, Mayor Miltiadis Chatzigiannakis of Skyros island, in Greece, reported that the island’s doctor has been practicing medicine with a forged certificate. The Mayor also requested a new doctor for the post as the current...

An innovative approach to orthopedic surgery using robots has been introduced by Greek doctors. The new technology is provided by the U.S. MAKO corporation, which has so far only been used in three European countries, including Greece. On the first...

Another two suicides in the Dodecanese, eastern Greece, are added to the long and tragic list. Last Thursday on Leros, a 20 year-old girl hanged herself, while on Kos, a 42 year-old father of two ended his life with a...

A Greek orthopedic doctor was able to accomplish the impossible, by giving a patient back his thumb after he had lost it in an accident. The entire procedure took place in Greece and the surgery was performed by Greek orthopedic...

The Athens Medical Association has expressed its concern about the high levels of smog over Greece’s largest cities. Doctors have warned citizens to limit their use of fireplaces, especially now that the weather conditions are such that the smog will...

William V. Harris, a history professor, has spent many years studying Ancient Greece and Rome, but in the last few years he has been focused on specifically studying the mental illnesses of the time. One may think that this is a...

Researchers in Britain – including three Greek scientists -- have discovered a new gene that drives the development of tumors in over one percent of all cancer patients. This is the first time that the CUX1 gene has been...

In an article entitled “An innovative approach to the use of marijuana,” which was uploaded on Mr. George Papandreou’s personal website, the former Prime Minister of Greece congratulates Uruguay’s government on how it handled the issue of marijuana’s legalization. In...

Cancer, one of the biggest plagues of modern societies, presents a historical record of interest among scientists around the world being a disease that has rapidly spread in the last centuries, but also known to early human civilizations. Cancer has...

The impact of the economic crisis on the Greek population is discovered to be even deeper every day and now researchers have set off  alarm bells for the dramatic rise of depressive episodes in the country. In 2013 in Greece,...