Cypriot dieticians issue warning over sugar consumption
The recommended daily intake of sugar for adults should not exceed 10 per cent of their total daily calorie intake, while for children, the daily...
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Almost half of Cypriot kids now overweight, Mediterranean diet ‘gone’
By Annette Chrysostomou Of all Europeans, Cypriots have the highest rate of overweight and obese children, 43 per cent of both boys and girls, the...
500 Syrian patients show symptoms pointing to toxic weapons exposure
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday around 500 people had been treated for “signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals” after a...
Europe’s HIV epidemic growing at alarming rate – WHO
The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began, showing the region’s epidemic growing “at...
Nearly half of abortions annually are unsafe – study
Nearly half of the 55.7 million abortions that take place globally each year are unsafe and putting women’s lives at risk, a study said on...
Cyprus the safest country in the world for young people
Cyprus is the safest country in the world for young people out of 184 countries across the globe, according to the latest data published by...
Star signs drive C-section birth ‘explosion’
IMMATURE and demanding women are at least in part to blame for the abnormally high rate of caesarean-section births in Cyprus, because they want...
Over half in Cyprus eat 1-4 portions of fruit and veg daily
Nearly one third of Cypriots, 32.6 per cent over the age of 15, did not consume a single portion of fruit or vegetables on a...
Tax sugary drinks to fight obesity, WHO urges governments
Governments should tax sugary drinks to fight the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, recommendations industry swiftly branded...
Syrian government launches Aleppo ground attack
Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive...
Lack of exercise costs world $67.5 billion and 5 million lives a year
A study of one million people has found that physical inactivity costs the global economy $67.5bn a year in healthcare and productivity losses, but an...
Can coffee cause cancer? Only if it’s very hot, say WHO scientists (Update 2)
There is no conclusive evidence that drinking coffee causes cancer, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency said on Wednesday in a reverse of its previous...
WHO declares Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission
Liberia has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, the fourth such declaration from one of...
Nearly 1,000 killed in attacks on health workers in 2014-15 – WHO
Nearly 1,000 people were killed in attacks on health centres worldwide over the past two years, almost 40 per cent of them in Syria, the...
How the WHO’s cancer agency confuses consumers
By Kate Kelland Processed meat, such as bacon, ranks alongside plutonium as a carcinogen, according to an arm of the WHO. Here’s how such assessments...
Cyprus has low levels of TB worldwide but numbers rising
Cyprus is among 33 countries with the lowest annual registration of new TB cases worldwide, the health ministry announced on Thursday on the occasion of...
WHO issues $56 million plan to combat Zika virus (Updated)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that $56 million were needed to combat the Zika virus until June, including for the fast-tracking of...
Brazil Zika cases raise concern of virus transmission beyond mosquitoes
By Anthony Boadle Authorities in Brazil, where a Zika outbreak has been linked to severe birth defects, on Thursday disclosed two cases of transmission tied...
