Greece

A gynecologist working in Filiates hospital was sentenced to a two years in prison for accepting a 300 euro bribery, or “fakelaki” (envelope) as the Greeks call it, in order to perform an unnecessary surgery to a 83-year old...

A lawsuit has been filed against a 50-year-old gynecologist, appointed to a hospital of Athens, by the Economic Police for the operation of a clinic without having statutory authorization. During a clinic control, the provision of medical services for money...

Cyprus police say a gynecologist has pleaded guilty to charges of raping and performing lewd acts on female patients he had sedated while examining them at his private clinic, Hurriyet Daily News reports. Police spokesman Christos Andreou says that six...

Georgios Papanikolaou, born in Kymi, Euboea in 1883 and the son of a doctor, invented the ‘Pap smear’ in 1943 and has saved the lives of countless women.

France is opening an investigation into two rape allegations made against Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, French Secretary of State for Development and the Francophonie. Zacharopoulou, 46, who was born in Sparta, Greece, is a gynecologist and politician for French President Macron's center...

Greece's population has been on a trajectory of rapid decline since 2011, the first year since 1944 when a negative birthrate was recorded, and it is expected to drop to 8 million people by 2050, a leading scientist warned...

According to an announcement made on Thursday, Greece's national police and the EU's law enforcement agency Europol dismantled a 66-member organized crime group believed to be involved in trafficking human beings, illegal adoption and money laundering on Monday. The network, which...

Nadia Murad, the Iraqi Yazidi who was sold into sex slavery by ISIS and awarded the 2018 Nobel peace prize, visited Greece seeking to become the voice of refugees that were stranded in the country. During her visits in 2015 and...

It is low-cost, effective and may have saved the lives of countless women since it was invented in 1943. The 'Pap smear' -- named after Greek doctor Georgios Papanikolaou who died this day in 1962 -- has become a cornerstone...

Recession is the source of financial desperation for all Greek labor, but it is particularly harsh for medical professionals who spend almost a decade studying, only to see their wages dropping below those of a public service employee. When an...

Scientists claim that they have discovered a way to help women who have gone through menopause re-start their menstruation cycles, New Science reports. In Greece, geneticists and gynecologist Konstantinos Sfakianoudis of Genesis Athens claims that this discovery of using platelet-rich plasma...

A free one-day scientific seminar with the theme "Maternal Mental Health: Latest Insights and Best Practices" was offered to health professionals by the NY-based Seleni Institute, at the Hellenic American College in Athens, May 13. Introduced by psychotherapist and psychoanalyst Haroula Ntalla, the...

Despite the fact that the financial crisis has led to a significant reduction in abortions within the country’s borders, Greece still remains in the first ranks among European countries, with 80,000 abortions per year (the same amount as births)....

A new lead came in search efforts for Ben Needham, the little boy who went missing on the Aegean isle of Kos, Greece, 24 years ago. The information surfaced during a tribute on private Greek ALPHA TV’s popular TV...

A decline in birth rates and an aging population have emerged as further side effects of Greece's ongoing economic crisis. For the past six years, Greece has also suffered a significant increase in abortions. According to the daily newspaper "Efimerida ton...