medicine

An orthopedist saved a little horse in Skyros, in contrast to veterinarians who couldn’t suggest any solution other than euthanasia. This is the first placement of an artificial body part to a horse in Greece. The horse’s name is Elpida,...

If you take into account pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions, a record unemployment rate, rising suicides, 20 percent of the population in poverty, and most of the country's young people wanting to flee, Greeks are relatively happy. That's according...

Greece's National Healthcare Organisation EOPYY is paying out scores of millions of euros for prescription drugs instead of generics and Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis wants to see if they are collaborating with drug companies. Among the most extreme cases are: -A...

More and more Greek families are relying on their elderly relatives'  pensions. With soaring unemployment and reduced salaries and allowances, pensions of a few hundred euros retirees receive every month can make the difference to the family budget. In some...

A large quantity of pills and “oil” for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, which was illegally being sold in Greece as the brand name Viagra but with a slightly altered title was found and seized by the Economic Police...

According to data of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention (HCDCP) another three outbreaks of the West Nile Virus appeared on August 6. One of them appeared in the region of Xanthi, a fact that accentuates the...

A 19-year old boy, who lost his life in a road accident with a bicycle on July 11 in Volos, became the guardian angel for more than five patients. The parents of the 19-year old boy, Marios Souliotis, took a...

This school is very different from others. It is not compulsory, students attend classes they are interested in and they don’t have to sit exams, although the results could be very interesting if they had to. This is the Summer...

Two model and innovative –in international level- units of organic photovoltaic devices and of materials development with vacuum technologies are about to operate in 2014 in Thessaloniki, the physicist specializing in Organic Electronics, LTFN Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Argiris Laskarakis,...

The Greek humanitarian organization Medecins du Monde (MdM) (Doctors of the World) has been conducting visits to remote island and mainland areas of Greece in order to provide their help. In the framework of the medical checkup program, Health for...