Health

Cyprus has recorded its first confirmed cases of the Covid-19 sub-variant ‘Eris’ but this has not had any impact on the hospitals, according to a senior health official. Medical services ...

Currently spreading COVID-19 variants such as EG.5, or Eris, do not represent a major shift and updated vaccines in September will offer protection, the director of the U.S. Centers ...

Health authorities on Wednesday said they have issued a recall on a specific herbal dietary supplement on the market, after sample testing detected a substance that requires medical prescription before ...

Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the state constitution, an initiative aimed at helping defeat a November referendum that would ...

A new study is raising fresh questions about the value of breast cancer screening in older women, finding that those 70 and older who underwent mammograms were more apt to be ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – will as of this autumn alter the way in which personal doctors are remunerated, with 20 per cent ...

The government will explore the possibility of supporting the establishment of an autism centre in Famagusta, deputy social welfare minister Marilena Evangelou said on Friday. The minister visited three different ...

Private hospitals asserted on Thursday that they cannot – and will not – renew their contract with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on what they say is a take-it-or-leave-it basis, warning that ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) is constructing a photovoltaic park at the Nicosia general hospital, an announcement from the organisation said on Wednesday. In a press release, Okypy said ...

Novo Nordisk has launched blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in Germany, its first big European market, hoping Germans will pay hundreds of euros out of pocket for a drug that public ...

A photo of a patient lying on the floor in the A&E department at Paphos hospital because of a lack of beds prompted government health services Okypy on ...

Private hospitals are threatening to close shop and walk out of Gesy, as disputes with the health insurance organisation (HIO) have reached new heights, it emerged on Friday. Mediterranean Hospital, ...

Depression and anxiety have been the biggest driver of the increase in Britons who say they are too ill to work, closely followed by a category which includes long-term COVID-19 ...

A&E departments all over Cyprus have recorded increased attendance in the recent days due to the severe heatwave gripping the country, according to state health services (Okypy) spokesperson ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari was expected to travel to La Palma, Spain on Wednesday as part of the informal meeting of health ministers, which were set to discuss mental health ...

Mayor of Polis Chrysochous Yiotis Papachristofis has asked for the immediate intervention of the minister of health to solve the problems of the town’s hospital. According to an announcement ...

The signing of an agreement between Cyprus and Greece regarding organ donation and transplants was at the centre of a meeting between the Health Ministers of both countries, which took ...

Israeli doctors declared a strike on Tuesday and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government’s ratification of the first stage ...

Children in Cyprus reported the second highest amount of negative effects from the Coronavirus pandemic, an international survey by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed on Tuesday. As only Kazakhstan ...

With Cyprus hospitals full to bursting, questions have been asked after the situation seemed to peak with a man who had suffered a stroke reportedly left waiting at Paphos hospital’...

The government is continuously upgrading Troodos hospital in Kyperounda, with the aim of providing quality medical services to those living the mountains, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Monday. During ...

A stroke patient who waited for about seven hours on a stretcher at the Paphos accidents and emergency department “is receiving full medical care” state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...

An experimental drug from Eli Lilly LLY.N works best if Alzheimer’s patients are treated as early as possible, ideally before they develop symptoms of the brain-wasting disease, researchers ...

A 103-person lawsuit against the state for its Covid policy was rejected at Nicosia district court on procedural grounds, it emerged on Monday. The lawsuit named the attorney-general, former Health ...