Health

People at high risk of severe disease who have yet to get a second COVID-19 booster should not wait for next-generation, Omicron-targeted vaccines expected in the fall, five vaccine experts ...

Cyprus aspires to eradicate hepatitis by 2030, the health ministry said on Thursday on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day which is marked on July 28 each year at the initiative of ...

Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will ...

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest alert level, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Saturday. First identified in monkeys, ...

Health Minister of Lithuania Arunas Dulkys begins a two day official visit to Cyprus on Tuesday. According to a press release by the Cyprus health ministry, the visit aims to ...

The recent rise in cases of acute hepatitis among children is likely linked to a common childhood virus, two independent studies from British researchers have suggested. Countries across the world ...

Commissioner for health, Stella Kyriakidou, responded on Monday to a question raised by European member of parliament, Dimitris Papadakis on the high rate of caesarean sections performed in Cyprus, which ...

Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic BAVA.CO said on Monday the European Commission had given permission for its Imvanex vaccine to be marketed as protection against monkeypox, as recommended last ...

EU member states should start preparing now for a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in autumn and winter, the bloc’s health chief said on Monday, saying there had ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela called for a meeting on Monday to take stock of the latest data, as well as Cyprus’ level of preparedness in dealing with monkeypox. The World ...

Shanghai ordered residents across nine of the city’s districts and some smaller areas to do COVID-19 tests over July 26-28, the city government said on Monday, as sporadic local ...

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday. The WHO label – ...

Living life in a healthier place requires letting go of things like hopelessness through healing. However, there are various types of healing, some more powerful than others. Therapists increasingly realize ...

The health minister said on Tuesday he will seek legal opinion from the Attorney-general on the legality of the appointment of Dr Petros Agathangelou to the board of the Health ...

European nations must accelerate vaccine uptake and bring back mask wearing to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by an Omicron offshoot and avoid stricter measures later in the ...

The problems faced by health centres in the mountains are on the way to being solved, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Saturday visiting the Troodos hospital in Kyperounta. Speaking ...

The number of patients seeking care at state hospitals has gone down By Elias Hazou While not ditching the general health system (Gesy) per se, people are getting increasingly fed ...

Mars Inc has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ...

Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has ...

Entrance to hospitals, care homes and closed facilities will require a 24 rather than a 48-hour rapid test result as from Monday, Cabinet decided on Thursday, adopting proposals submitted by the ...

All public hospitals’ working hours will be extended to cover afternoons from September 1st, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Monday. The public will be accommodated 7:30 am – 3:00 pm ...

European Union health agencies on Monday recommended a second COVID-19 booster for everyone over 60, as well as medically vulnerable people, amid a new rise in infections and hospitalisations across Europe. ...

During the first day of roll-out on Saturday, 93 calls were made to on-duty clinics islandwide, according to health ministry data. Some 37 appointments for personal physicians and 21 for paediatricians were also ...

The upsurge in coronavirus cases in the past two weeks is creating strife in the health service as authorities scramble to reopen Covid wards and increase the number of beds, ...