Paphos hospice on track to reopen this year
The Friends Hospice in Paphos, which had to close its doors last year, is on track to reopen at its new premises before the end of the year, according to ...
Israel sees probable link between Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis cases
Israel’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday it had found the small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Israel ...
How excessive drinking affects your body: 8 harsh consequences you should be aware of
Drinking problems have become an incredibly common issue. Consequently, addiction treatment facilities and services, such as ARC addiction recovery service, are growing in popularity in many parts of the world.
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EU regulator backs Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents (Update 1)
Europe’s medicines regulator on Friday backed the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 12, paving the way for a broader roll-out in the region after ...
Tenders invited as improvement to psychiatric hospital take step towards reality
Tenders were invited on Friday for the construction of a new mental health centre in Nicosia, part of the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, the transport ministry said.
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Makarios hospital to have its own children’s A&E, neurology clinic
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday morning announced that €23.5 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan would be given to boost the Makarios hospital to cater for everything needed ...
Chinese inactivated vaccines effective against COVID-19 in phase-3 human trials
Two inactivated vaccines developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm have shown to be safe and effective against COVID-19 in phase-3 human trials, according to a study published this week ...
Over €74m in EU funds to boost health system (Updated)
Over €74 million from the €1.2 billion allocated to Cyprus from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan will go to strengthening the health system over the next five years, Health Minister Constantinos ...
US agencies examine reports of early Covid-19 infections in Wuhan lab
U.S. intelligence agencies are examining reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to ...
EU expects more than a billion Covid shots by end of September
The European Union expects to have received more than a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September from four drugmakers, a document presented to EU leaders on ...
What is ‘black fungus’ that is hitting India’s COVID-19 patients?
A rapid rise in cases of mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, has added to the challenges faced by India’s healthcare system as it deals with a massive second ...
Cyprus marks two years since Gesy implementation
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Sunday praised the country’s national healthcare system (Gesy) for providing equal and quality services to citizens as Cyprus marks two years since its implementation.
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AstraZeneca vaccine effective as third booster
The Covid-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University works well as a third booster dose, stepping up antibodies to the coronavirus spike protein among participants in a study, the ...
One in four people in Cyprus has hypertension
One out of four people in Cyprus suffers from hypertension, with the number increasing to one out of two for those aged over 60, the Cyprus Cardiology Society and the Cyprus ...
More than 25% of EU adults would refuse Covid-19 shot, survey says
More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a survey published on Thursday showed.
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EU asks AstraZeneca to deliver 120 million vaccines by end of June
The European Union wants AstraZeneca to deliver at least 120 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of June, a lawyer representing the EU said on Tuesday at the ...
Patent waivers for vaccines proposal supported by 5 EU nations
Five European Union Member States distanced themselves on Friday from the idea of waiving patent rights on coronavirus vaccines, saying the key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic was making more ...
Biden administration to back suspending Covid-19 vaccine patents
In a major shift on intellectual property rights, the US administration has backed lifting patents of Covid-19 vaccines in order to speed up vaccination of those in need worldwide.
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Accupuncture grows popular in Malta with other Chinese medicine
Chinese physician Jiang Yawen, 38, heading a team of five fellow doctors, has been on duty in Malta since last October.
The 16th Chinese Medical Team for Malta offers traditional Chinese ...
New York opens probe into arsenic and other toxic metals in baby food
New York’s attorney general said on Thursday she has opened a probe into whether baby food contains arsenic and other toxic metals, and asked four manufacturers to provide information ...
EU legal case against AstraZeneca begins in Brussels court
The European Commission’s lawsuit against drugmaker AstraZeneca over COVID-19 vaccine supplies began at a Brussels court on Wednesday, where the bloc’s lawyers pressed for immediate deliveries from all ...
Pasykaf makes call for more members
The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (Pasykaf) is calling for people to become members to support the operation of its services and programmes.
“By becoming a member, you ...
Denmark becomes first country to permanently stop administering AstraZeneca vaccine
Denmark will cease to administer AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine entirely following its possible link to very rare cases of blood clots, several Danish media outlets reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed ...
Reaction after US recommends pause for J&J vaccine
U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after six recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots, in a ...