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.
The ...
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 ...
U.S. pauses use of J&J vaccine over rare blood clots, rollout delayed in Europe (update 4)
U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended pausing use of Johnson & Johnson‘s COVID-19 vaccine for at least a few days after six women under age 50 developed rare ...
How worried should we be about links of blood clots to AstraZeneca’s vaccine?
Europe’s drug regulator on Wednesday said it had found a possible link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in adults who received the shot. Britain ...
EU, UK regulators still recommend AZ shot despite possible link to blood clots
European and British regulators said on Wednesday they had found possible links between AstraZeneca’s vaccine and very rare cases of blood clots, but reaffirmed its importance in protecting people ...
Life expectancy falls in several EU states, Cyprus unchanged
Life expectancy at birth has been increasing by more than two years per decade since the 1960s but latest available data suggest it has stagnated or even declined in recent ...
Climate change expected to make European hay fever seasons much worse
By Adam Vaughan
Coping with the hay fever season in north-west Europe is set to get harder, with climate change projected to potentially increase the severity of the pollen season ...
Cancer projected to be the main cause of death in Europe by 2035
Cancer patients are expected to increase by 25 per cent across Europe by 2035, according to European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides.
The commissioner was talking in a webinar ...
Gesy cost €780m to run last year, revenues came to €840m
Revenue from contributions to the health system Gesy amounted to €840 million in 2020, a senior official told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday.
Angelos Tropis, an official with the Health Insurance ...
‘Your GP is not your secretary’, HIO tells public
Personal doctors are not ‘secretaries’, the health insurance organisation (HIO) said on Friday and reminded people that Gesy beneficiaries need to visit their personal doctors to get a referral for ...
Europe struggles to catch up in vaccinations
Europe, under fire for fumbling its vaccine roll-out and fighting a fresh wave of infections, is scrambling to speed up the pace of injections and avoid being left further behind ...
WHO’s Kluge says European COVID-19 vaccine campaign is “unacceptably slow”
Europe’s rollout of vaccinations against COVID-19 is “unacceptably slow,” the World Health Organization’s European head said on Thursday, raising concern that delays in giving shots could prolong the ...