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American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, the award-giving body said on Monday. ...

The European Union’s drug regulator on Friday identified a possible link between rare cases of blood clotting in deep veins with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and recommended ...

The Apollonion private hospital has sought to address ‘fake news’ regarding the death of the six-year-old Syrian boy who died this week following surgery on Tuesday. It was said that ...

Efforts are underway to inaugurate a unit dedicated to combating deadly diseases as there are fears that the healthcare system is not yet prepared for to handle the outbreak of ...

State doctors went ahead with their planned three-hour stoppage between 8 and 11am on Wednesday, threatening to step up measures if their demands are not met. Members of state doctors’ union ...

Almost 19 per cent of the island’s population reported they had blood pressure in 2019, three per cent lower than the EU average, a Eurostat report showed on Wednesday. In 2019, 22 per ...

The scheduled three-hour work stoppage of state doctors on Wednesday morning has put on hold surgeries and other appointments, but anti-coronavirus vaccinations continue. State doctors’ union Pasyki and doctors, members ...

About four per cent of Cypriots said they were affected by asthma in 2019, below the EU average of 5.7 per cent, a report by Eurostat showed on Friday. The EU average ...

The budget of the national health scheme (Gesy) remained within initial estimates, counting €794.7m for the period of January to August despite the pandemic, an HIO official said on Saturday. ...

State health services organisation (Okypy) on Friday said they would meet the state doctors’ unions next week to discuss the afternoon operation of state hospitals, amid a row that erupted ...

State doctors’ union Pasyki said on Wednesday they are close to taking measures over what they say is failure by the state health services (Okypy) to comply with an agreement ...

Eleftheria Square will be symbolically lit in purple on Tuesday evening to honour International Overdose Awareness Day, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives to overdose and recognise ...

A total of 620 requests for appointments with 700 doctors were arranged online by the end of July, according to the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy). It said there has been a ...

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 ...

Health officials on Wednesday paid tribute to nurses in honour of International Nurses Day, with President Nicos Anastasiades and Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou extending thanks on Twitter. May 12, Florence Nightingale’...

Cyprus had the second highest increase in the number of people looking for health information online among EU member states in the last decade, the latest Eurostat figures show. “Over ...

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 ...

More than 50,000 Cypriots live with a rare disease, recent research by the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) and Karaiskakio Foundation has shown. Ahead of World Rare Disease Day, ...

Interest has been expressed in the construction of a large rehabilitation and hospital care centre in Engomi near the Nicosia state fair, Engomi municipality announced on Thursday. It said the ...

The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly managing the endeavour against Covid-19. ...

State nurses’ union Pasyno proposed referring patients to the private sector and suspending non-emergency procedures, as well as getting nursing staff off desks in a bid to reinforce ICUs and ...