Health

The strengthening of the health sector and the orderly operation of the ambulance service, play the primary role for the well-being of Cypriots, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Thursday, ...

Opening hours for outpatient services on weekends and holidays are being simplified, HIO director Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Thursday. The change, which takes effect immediately, came about due to apparent ...

Supermarket group Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain’s largest private-sector employer, is to offer its staff virtual appointments with a private family doctor, in another indication of the pressures engulfing the ...

The children’s oncology ward at the Makarios hospital is set to be permanently staffed by a psychologist and a social worker. The move was announced by Health Minister Popi ...

With a generous state subsidy ‘a lot more women than we realise choose to freeze their eggs’ Cypriot women are increasingly “shutting their ears to outdated ideas” and moving to ...

Dieticians and nutritionists in Cyprus advised the public to consume ‘everything in moderation’ after the World Health Organisation’s cancer research body was reported to declare aspartame sweetener as a ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari visited the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics on Friday where she expressed the state’s continued support for its challenging but important work. Kanari said ...

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Health Minister Popi Kanari has announced her intention to put into law new regulations on rehabilitation centres. Kanari said that the purpose of the proposed new law “is to regulate ...

One of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with ...

An ultra-modern medical centre will be opened in Akaki in 2024, the state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Wednesday. An announcement from the organisation said that the centre will join ...

The health ministry honoured the outgoing chairman of the national thalassaemia commission Panos Englezos, with a prize-giving ceremony. The ceremony was attended by Health Minister Popi Kanari, who congratulated “the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari unveiled a new children’s health awareness campaign on Tuesday called the Children’s Protection Shield. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of ...

Larnaca has commenced a pilot programme aimed at fighting back against a new invasive and potentially dangerous species of mosquito which has been found in the area. The Aedes aegypti ...

Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari on Monday had words of praise for the Grigorios clinic in Larnaca during her visit to the facility. However, she also used the opportunity to slam ...

People with disabilities in Spain and other European countries have been disproportionately affected by unprecedented heat extremes, a leading human rights watchdog said on Monday, urging authorities to provide adequate ...

Some facilities are banning any visits, others allow just one visitor at a time By Andria Kades Patients have condemned ‘inconsistencies and harshness’ in hospital policies for visitation rights that ...

Davion Healthcare, a renowned medical company specialising in the design, development, manufacture, and global distribution of medical products and services, has relocated its €64 million business from the United Kingdom to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday convened a meeting at the presidential palace to discuss the issues facing the operation and implementation of national health scheme Gesy. Alongside Gesy operator Health ...

The president of the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) Petros Agathangelou has called on a newspaper to issue an apology after it published, what he said, was a misleading report on ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari on Friday heralded the donation of five new mammography machines by Opap, to be used in the government’s breast detection programme. In a ceremony to ...

A patient advocacy group which has brought questions before parliament on the verification of doctors’ expertise, came under attack from the head of the Cyprus Medical Council on Friday. The ...

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has established itself in the country and beyond, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Laying the foundation stone of the new CING ...