medicine

The medical students of the Aristotle University are standing by Alzheimer patients and vulnerable groups through the programs D.I.ANOIA and N.I.K.I of the Scientific Association of Medical Students (E.E.F.I.E )-Thessaloniki Branch. The program D.I.ANOIA (Active Doctors for Dementia), which was...

The cardiosurgical clinic of the Children’s Hospital Agia Sofia reopened on March 20, and gradually all its departments will be working again. Two surgeries have already been scheduled, one of them being the replacement of a pacemaker in an...

Childbirth data in Greece shows that the numbers have fallen from 15,000 to 10,000 while fetal resorptions are at 4%, and the number of underweight babies has hit 10 percent, numbers that some health care analysts link to the...

The Greek government has reacted furiously against a decision by 50 leading pharmaceutical companies to cease sending drugs to for pharmacies, although the suppliers charged the medications were being re-sold to other countries. The cut-off has sparked a run on...

An assessment in care provided to patients with opiate addiction, brought Greece to the first place among 10 European countries. The EQUATOR study (European Quality Audit of Opioid Treatment) leads to the qualities of providing medical treatment of opioid addiction,...

A nineteen-year-old girl in Thessaloniki underwent a six and a half hour surgery of tumor removal and won the fight for her life, thanks to a global medical miracle. The doctors of the Interbalkan Medical Center in Thessaloniki removed...

Despite the country's crushing financial crisis, Greeks are still spending money on plastic surgery, enough so that the country ranks second worldwide in the number of operations to make people look younger and better. According to data from the International...

Many Greek doctors, fearing a dead-end future with pay cuts and limited opportunities, are leaving to find jobs and better life in other countries, recently-published statistics show. The wave of migration that began in 2010 has now grown into a...

Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes has ordered an investigation into whether pharmaceutical companies or pharmacists have deliberately created a shortage of medicines to capitalize on the country’s crushing economic crisis. Tentes has asked all of Greece’s appeals court prosecutors...

A growing number of Greek doctors, seeing their pay cut constantly and sometimes going unpaid for months by the government, are heading abroad abroad to practice medicine and make a living. Britain, Sweden and many other rich European countries...