Health

The Cyprus Turkish nurses and midwives union on Tuesday announced that an interim order had been issued in their favour regarding a lawsuit they had filed against the north’s ‘...

The percentage of mixed feeding for infants – breastmilk and formula – has risen from 65.7 per cent in 2010 to 88.3 per cent in 2022 and Cyprus’ national strategy for increasing breastfeeding for the years 2024 ...

Gesy is kicking off its new awareness campaign on Thursday with TV spots aimed at making patients think twice before using the national health scheme if it is not absolutely ...

Steps were taken on Thursday towards the creation of a new ambulance service, with Health Minister Michael Damianos attending the House health committee to put forward his position on the ...

A man is suing a doctor and the hospital at which he was treated after undergoing an operation on his left knee when he had intended to undergo an operation ...

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has secured €760,000 in funding to study optimised and personalised interventions aimed at delaying and alleviating dementia, it announced on Friday. CING said ...

Football’s governing body FIFA and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday launched a global concussion awareness initiative developed with brain health experts. The ‘Suspect and Protect: No Match ...

The 20th Pink Figures March will be held on October 5, the breast cancer association Europa Donna Cyprus announced on Tuesday. The march is being held under the auspices of EU ...

Cyprus’ new three-year strategy for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding was adopted on Tuesday by the cabinet to create a society with a friendly disposition towards infants and ...

The state health services (Okypy) appears to have shown blatant disregard for how it spends public funds, particularly by management who have booked fancy hotels and raked in plenty of ...

Dozens of blood transfusions to thalassemia patients were postponed due to low reserves in Cyprus’ blood bank, head of the national thalassemia association Miltos Miltiadous said on Sunday. His statements ...

Demetrios Bestitzanos is a doctor, specifically an internist. A few years ago, around the time he turned 50, he decided to relocate from Athens – where he’d been studying and working ...

Deputy Minister for European Affairs Marilena Raouna has said that as Cyprus prepares to undertake its second Presidency of the Council of the EU in January 2026, the government aims to ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos announced on Friday that cabinet approved kidney and lung transplant agreements set to be signed on September 19 with the Greek government. Speaking after the cabinet meeting, ...

There is a need for a new strategic plan for blood donation, Miltos Miltiadou, president of the Pancyprian Thalassaemia Association, said on Friday, in response to messages sent to patients ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

Unions on Wednesday charged they would take “drastic measures” if state health services (Okypy) did not hire permanent hourly-paid staff at Paphos general hospital. In a statement, Payek Peo and ...

The Cyprus Physiotherapists Association will hold two events on September 7 and14, in celebration of World Physiotherapy Day, which is observed annually on September 8. The events were announced during a press ...

Pharmacists’ patience “has run out” over the issue of opening hours, pharmaceutical association chairman Ploutarchos Georgiades said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said his frustration is ...

The U.S. government’s first-ever negotiated prices for prescription drugs are still on average more than double, and in some cases five times, what drugmakers have agreed to in ...

The pharmaceutical council is set to hold an extraordinary meeting to find a solution to the threat of pharmacies to remain closed during nights and bank holidays, it emerged on ...

Lumbago, a common and often debilitating form of lower back pain, can be both prevented and treated through regular exercise, physiotherapists emphasised ahead of Sunday’s World physical therapy day. ...

A decision to scrap free medical treatment not covered by the national health scheme (Gesy) for all civil servants and their families, has triggered the reaction of the Cyprus Federation ...

Pharmacies are threatening to shut on holidays and nights, it was reported on Wednesday, over issues that emerged with working hours and the failure of some pharmacies to meet the ...