Health

The latest evaluation report on Cyprus’ national health scheme Gesy said that in the past three years direct healthcare expenses for patients were reduced from 50 to around 15 per cent. Released ...

Cyprus is set to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) meeting of the small countries initiative (SCI) in the European region, it was announced on Wednesday. According to to ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Monday received a fact-finding report over the medicine scandal in which he vowed he would act accordingly based on the findings. The report comes after ...

The paediatric clinic of Makarios hospital handles between 30 and 40 new benign and malignant haematological and oncological cases every year. The numbers were disclosed during a recent seminar entitled “Leukaemia and ...

Efforts are underway to develop the National Cancer Institute, as well as a legal framework to offer palliative care through Gesy, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Sunday. Speaking to ...

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, stated on Friday that the European Health Union has been shaped by the core principle of “my health, my right,” which ...

A treatment centre to help adults dealing with a gambling addiction will begin operating in Paralimni, the national betting authority (NBA) and addictions authority (NAAC) announced on Wednesday. Named “Kinitro” (“...

Developed by one in ten mothers, it really shouldn’t be ignored says DR VASILIOS SILIVISTRIS About one in ten mothers develop postnatal depression, which is defined as depression suffered ...

Water leakage into medical storage facilities of the health ministry through a damaged roof, resulted in large quantities of medicines being destroyed it was revealed on Wednesday. The incident happened ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos met a delegation of the Pancyprian Medical Association led by its general secretary Sotiroula Charalambous on Tuesday to discuss several key healthcare issues. According to a ...

The percentage of children with autism has increased globally but there are no exact figures for the island, Cyprus Autism Society president Tasoula Georgiadou said on Tuesday amid activities to ...

Adult ADHD symptoms range from mildly disruptive to downright oppressive, sometimes interfering with your daily life and preventing you from engaging in your surroundings the way you would otherwise like. ...

Healthcare was at the forefront of discussions between Health Minister Michael Damianos and Greek Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistocleous during the latter’s official visit to Cyprus on Friday. Damianos ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (Hio) issued €80,000 in fines last year to over 40 health service providers for abusing Gesy, it emerged on Friday. Data obtained by CNA revealed that in 2023, the ...

MPs at the House health committee on Thursday called on state health services organisation (Okypy) and the health ministry to promptly address the hospitalisation and post-operative care of liver transplant ...

The patients’ association (Osak) called on all state healthcare (Gesy) beneficiaries to activate their online medical profiles in an announcement on Thursday. The organisation called on the public to update ...

There are no cases of measles in the north, ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek said on Thursday night. Dincyurek was speaking after a total of six cases of measles were detected ...

The response from political parties and stakeholders regarding the legislation introduced by Disy to the House health committee, which requires insurance coverage for all doctors to practice in Cyprus, was ...

Known as the destroyer of weakness, Shilajit is a natural substance found primarily in the rocks of the Himalayas. It’s a sticky substance that develops over centuries from the ...

Levels of amphetamine and methamphetamine are on the rise in wastewater in Cyprus, the European monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction (EMCDDA) said on Wednesday. The EMCDDA was presenting ...

The British government will introduce a bill in parliament on Wednesday to fulfill its promise to phase out smoking among young people by banning tobacco sales for future generations. The ...

Starting from Tuesday, it is no longer necessary to present a negative Covid-19 test to visit hospitals and nursing homes, Health Minister Michael Damianos announced following a review of protection ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday made another intervention on the matter of the “fake diploma scandal” which has engulfed the north’s higher education sector. Speaking on the ...

The number of Cypriots undergoing kidney dialysis has more than doubled over the course of the last decade, the Cyprus Nephrological Society said on Wednesday. Ahead of Thursday’s World ...