WHO, agencies urge countries to suspend sale of live wild mammals at markets
International agencies including the World Health Organization urged countries on Tuesday to suspend the sale of live wild mammals in food markets, warning they may...
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WHO sees poorer countries getting first Covid vaccines this quarter
The first modest batches of coronavirus vaccines are expected to go out under the COVAX scheme for poorer countries in the first quarter of this...
Health minister: Cyprus taking every possible measure for coronavirus
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou reassured the public on Monday that his ministry was taking all the necessary measures regarding the threat of coronavirus and was...
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...
Insurance companies warn of National Health Scheme risks
Insurance companies warned on Wednesday that the health ministry’s proposed insurance system for the National Health Scheme (Gesy) would cost customers more and some would...
Gates backs Big Pharma push to wipe out tropical diseases
By Stephanie Nebehay The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Western countries and drug companies pledged fresh support on Wednesday to wipe out diseases that blind,...
Health ministry aims to cut world’s highest levels of caesarean sections
Cyprus will launch a national campaign to try to reduce its high level of caesarean sections, Health Minister George Pamborides said on Monday. The issue...
Thailand confirms two cases of Zika-linked microcephaly, first in region
Thailand confirmed on Friday that the Zika virus had caused two cases of microcephaly, a condition that results in babies being born with small heads,...
Why we need the NHS immediately
By Charalambos Pattihis Both the competitiveness and growth of a country and the welfare of its citizens depends on guaranteeing their health and safety....
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...
World Health Organization declares Zika a global emergency
By Stephanie Nebehay and Ben Hirschler The World Health Organisation declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency as the disease...
WHO: air pollution one of the world’s biggest health crises
Air pollution in cities around the globe has reached such toxic levels that the world is confronting one of the “biggest public health issues” it...
Health ministry ends cooperation with WHO
By Angelos Anastasiou Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis has ended the Cyprus government’s cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the implementation of a National...
Boy dies of Ebola in Liberia, first fatality in months
By James Harding Giahyue A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first such fatality for months in a country declared free of...
South Korea reports third MERS death as alarm grows
By Ju-min Park South Korea on Thursday confirmed that a man who died a day earlier had been infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),...
Three out of four Cypriots don’t eat breakfast
By Andria Kades ALMOST 30 per cent of people in Cyprus are obese, according to a study by the Cyprus Dieticians Association (CDA). Specifically, 47...
Price of nearly 2,000 medicines reduced
By Staff Reporter The health ministry on Friday announced that the price of almost 2,000 medicines had been reduced on average by around 15.5 per...
S.Korea cancer victims bring class action against nuclear operator
By Ju-min Park and Meeyoung Cho A group of South Korean thyroid cancer patients living near nuclear plants have filed the country’s first class action...
NHS draft bills ready
By Angelos Anastasiou TWO draft bills relating to the introduction of the National Health Scheme (NHS) and the financial autonomy of public hospitals were released...