Health

A 24-year-old British man who fell from a fourth-floor hotel balcony while on holiday in Cyprus is set to be discharged from hospital but remains unable to walk. Sam Hudson, ...

The accident and emergency department (A&E) of Paphos general hospital will be temporarily relocated on Monday, July 14, 2025, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Friday. As part ...

The Cyprus association of care home owners on Wednesday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” over the way House labour committee discussed living conditions in private and state care homes for people with ...

More than 2,000 patients have visited Nicosia general hospital’s “fast-track clinic” in the first three months of its operation, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. The clinic is operating ...

The Evangelismos hospital in Paphos is set to be acquired following the signing of a sale agreement, pending final approval from the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC). ...

Officials on Thursday promised that the new accident and emergencies (A&E) unit at Larnaca general hospital would be delivered at the end of the month – but MPs remained ...

More than 4,500 people in Cyprus are diagnosed with cancer every year, and over 2,000 lose their lives, new figures have revealed, prompting calls for a radical overhaul of cancer care on ...

The organisation for cerebral palsy and other disabilities sent a memorandum to the House education committee on Tuesday, expressing its opposition to the proposed amendment taking schooling for children with ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday has ratified two landmark agreements with Greece enhancing cross-border cooperation for kidney and lung transplants. The agreement allows for organ transplant exchanges between incompatible ...

For many of us, the start of the 2020s was something we’d much rather forget. The COVID-19 pandemic had wide-ranging, devastating impacts, from the millions of lives lost around ...

A team of Cyprus-led scientists has made a breakthrough in understanding breast and ovarian cancer with a milestone study that distinguishes “innocent” and “dangerous” genetic errors, the Cyprus Institute of ...

British lawmakers will vote later today on whether to proceed with legislation to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill, in what would be the biggest social reform in the ...

U.S. Dietary Guidelines are expected to eliminate the long-standing recommendation that adults limit alcohol consumption to one or two drinks per day, according to three sources familiar with the ...

In a world where Medicare’s complexities leave many seniors bewildered, Joseph Ritter has spent two decades perfecting something remarkable: the ability to transform confusion into clarity. As President of ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Sunday said that while there are “certainly problems” with Gesy, it “will not collapse”. Speaking at an event in the Paphos district village of Panayia, ...

The ten Cypriot patients currently receiving treatment in Israel and their 13 escorts are safe, despite the ongoing unrest in the country, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. He added ...

Online consultations for telemedicine have revolutionized the healthcare sector. In order to create seamless contact between the patient and his physician, regardless of their separate locations, sophisticated software supports a ...

MPs on Thursday agreed to let the government keep covering the deficits of the state health services organisation (Okypy) until the end of next year, apparently satisfied with the organisation’...

The Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved a bill providing the first legal framework for palliative care in Cyprus. “This initiative fills a significant legislative gap and ensures that patients ...

Staff at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre in Nicosia have announced a one-hour work stoppage in support of a long-time female colleague whose dismissal was described by unions as “...

Lawmakers on Thursday again decried the abject lack of progress in the scheduled expansion and upgrade of the neonatal intensive care unit at Makarios hospital, with the project apparently bogged ...

The Aids Solidarity Movement on Thursday announced the launch of Cyprus’ first support centre for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a medication that significantly reduces the risk of HIV infection. “The Cyprus ...

In its six years of operation, Cyprus’ national health system, Gesy, has registered over a million beneficiaries and logged more than 21 million visits to general practitioners and roughly the same ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos delivered a speech on the occasion of World Multiple Sclerosis Day on Friday, emphasising the state’s duty to support patients in remaining active citizens. According ...