Health

Lawmakers on Thursday examined a timetable for the start of the expansion and renovation of the neonatal unit at Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia with one MP suggesting the ...

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by ...

Nursing staff at Makarios hospital’s Neonatal intensive care unit on Thursday demonstrated outside parliament over severe staffing shortages. The nurses, members of Pasyno union, complained while a debate was ...

An increase in the positivity rate of coronavirus infections among students was registered after the start of the new school year, epidemiologist and member of the health ministry monitoring unit ...

Europa Donna Cyprus announced on Wednesday that this year’s march to support women with breast cancer will take place on October 8 in Nicosia under the slogan The Right to ...

Mental health treatments can be effective. It can help someone live a fulfilling life while managing a disorder they might be dealing with. This guide will discuss how New Waters ...

Vaccinations with the updated, Omicron-specific dose will be available as of Tuesday, medical services director Elisavet Constantinou said. Speaking to CyBC radio, Constantinou said that the adapted vaccines will be ...

Cyprus and the rest of the world may finally see light at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic tunnel sooner rather than later, if the number of cases worldwide continue ...

Members of the Pancyprian association of physiotherapists began a two-hour strike at 9am on Friday to protest that agreements made with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) have not been implemented. ...

A probe expected to wrap up by year’s end should give a clearer picture as to how many individuals are practicing medicine without the requisite qualifications, having taken advantage ...

The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook yet on ...

Cyprus and Israel are strengthening their cooperation in the fields of health and medicine with the signing in Tel Aviv on Wednesday of a plan based on existing agreements. The ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the health ministry’s recommendation to proceed with the new ‘bivalent’ Covid vaccines as booster doses for those aged 12 and above. The booster (third dose) ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday recommended a COVID-19 booster designed to combat the currently circulating Omicron BA.4/5 subvariants, days after endorsing a pair of boosters tailored to target ...

The health services are preparing to start offering the fourth coronavirus vaccine dose, deputy director of nursing services Evagoras Tambouris said on Friday as the Pfizer vaccine has already arrived ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday announced the creation of a special webpage dedicated to the accident and emergency departments of its hospitals. According to information, the aim ...

Top scientists from leading academic centers are banding together to answer a key question about the root cause of long COVID – whether fragments of the coronavirus persist in the tissues ...

The vaccination committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the policies for the new ‘bivalent’ vaccine and the wider rollout for the winter campaign. Cyprus has so far received 43,000 of ...

The health ministry and the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) have clashed over the timeframe in creating the much-needed A&E department at Makarios children’s hospital, which currently ...

Vaccination gaps in EU populations must be closed as a “matter of top priority”, the EU’s Cypriot Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said on Friday, with Brussels recommending that ...

Cyprus is set to become the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) hub on the fringes of Europe, the Middle East and Asia by the end of 2022. Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela ...

Cyprus has a very low number of organ donors in relation to other EU countries, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Thursday during a visit to the Transplant Clinic at ...

Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 to its lowest since 1996, the second year of a historic retreat due to COVID-19 deaths, provisional government data showed. The nearly one-year ...

Cyprus and Spain’s Health Ministers met on Wednesday in Nicosia to discuss issues related to a bilateral cooperation in organ transplantation and the set up of a committee to ...