Thyroid cancer in Cypriot children among the world’s highest
A population-based study using data from the Cyprus Paediatric Oncology Registry showed that thyroid cancer incidence in Cypriot children and teenagers is among the world’s...
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Multiple Sclerosis Association seeks participants for health survey
Cyprus Multiple Sclerosis Association has called on locals to participate in an international survey to evaluate health care procedures. In a social media post inviting...
CDC says Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus to be as contagious as chickenpox and could...
CanSinoBIO’s inhaled Covid vaccine candidate triggers immune response
An inhaled version of CanSino Biologics’ (CanSinoBIO) COVID-19 vaccine triggered immune responses without serious side effects, an early-stage clinical trial showed. The two-dose candidate requires...
Antibodies from Sinovac shot fade after about 6 months
Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine decline below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a...
How the Delta variant upends assumptions about the coronavirus
The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending...
Parliamentary inquiry urges UK-wide minimum standard protocol for head injuries
The British government has been urged to mandate a minimum standard protocol for concussions across sports in a bid to reduce the risk of brain...
Ivermectin is safe, but ‘not a viable option’ to treat Covid-19 study shows
Ivermectin, an existing drug against parasites including head lice, has had a chequered history when it comes to treating COVID-19. The bulk of studies so...
Gesy beneficiaries can now book specialist appointments online
The state health services organisation (Okypy) has officially launched its new revamped website on Thursday designed to facilitate the procedure of booking medical appointments online....
Coronavirus: Cypriot researcher at forefront of new test
Revolutionary method uses a bacterial immune system to detect Covid There is an urgent need for inexpensive new technologies which enable fast and reliable detection...
Coronavirus: Non-urgent operations cancelled to clear beds for virus patients
The state health services (Okypy) is postponing all non-urgent operations in anticipation of a rise in hospital admissions as a result of the recent surge...
Countries make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory
A sharp upturn in new coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious Delta variant and a slowdown in vaccination rates have pushed governments to make COVID–19 jabs mandatory for health...
EU finds potential link between heart incidents and mRNA shots
Europe’s drug regulator has found a possible link between very rare heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, it said on Friday, stressing...
Pfizer vaccine effectiveness is down to 64%, Israel says
The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus has dropped to just 64 per cent in Israel, the country’s Ministry of Health said in...
Cyprus high on list of CT scanners per capita
Cyprus has the second highest availability of computer tomography (CT) scanners and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units in hospitals relative to the number of inhabitants...
Pinterest bans all weight loss ads
Pinterest Inc is banning all ads with weight loss language and imagery, including ads that idealize or denigrate certain body types, it said on Thursday....
Psychiatric patients left behind by Gesy, say protest doctors
Psychiatric patients have been left behind by the national health scheme (Gesy), state doctors union (Pasyki) said on Wednesday as they went ahead with a...
In farewell, Ioannou lauds Gesy, handling of pandemic
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday said he was proud Gesy was introduced during three-year term. While assessing his ministry’s work before leaving his post,...
J&J to pay $263m in New York opioid settlements, avoids trial
By Jonathan Stempel Johnson & Johnson said on Saturday it will pay $263 million to resolve claims it fueled an opioid epidemic in New York...
Coronavirus: US adds warning about rare heart inflammation to Pfizer, Moderna vaccines
The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the...