Greece

Greeks take their traditions, including those related to food, holidays, spirits, dances, and arts, which have persisted for thousands of years, very seriously. Those cultural practices which have helped them in the healing of disease and maintenance of good...

Born on the island of Kos, c. 460 BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine.

German Minister of Health Jens Spann stated on Tuesday that his country is counting on approving the coronavirus vaccine "before Christmas," as the EU body responsible for giving the green light will begin examining the vaccine on December 21. The...

Greeks have had to turn to generic medicine as the economic crisis has worsened over the past few years and fewer people have insurance due to unemployment. This has been a difficult adjustment for Greeks, as they have a deep...

Addressing the Concordia Europe Summit in Athens, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said that Greece was given the wrong medicine referring to the memoranda the country signed -- including his government -- in exchange for bailout loans. The Greek premier...

Greece's National Organization for Medicines on Friday issued a temporary ban of parallel exports, stockpiling or intra-Community trade of five brands of children's vaccines guarding against hepatitis and whooping cough, in order to ensure an adequate domestic supply. The ban...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has admitted on several occasions in the recent past that it made serious errors in its assessment of the impact of the austerity measures on the Greek economy. Indeed, instead of projected growth, expansionary austerity...

Evangelismos, Greece's largest public hospital located in central Athens, is facing a serious shortage in medicine, according to the hospital's employee union. Cardiologist Elias Sioras, president of the hospital employee union, told Protothema.gr that while Evangelismos' budget for 2015 was...

Greece 's Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis, speaking on Tuesday to private Mega and ANT1 TV stations, clarified that he is in favor of the insured paying part of their medicine cost based on income criteria. "There will be no increase...

If the Memorandum was not signed, Greece would have been bankrupt. This is what former Prime Minister George Papandreou underlined during an interview on Greek TV earlier today. "The Memorandum was signed for a reason, it was a medicine," Papandreou...

Academic, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard University and at the Kapodistrian University of Athens Dimitris Trichopoulos died early Monday at the age of 76. Trichopoulos who was treated at Evangelismos Intensive Care Unit died from severe heart attack....

In a Greek TV show, Mayor Miltiadis Chatzigiannakis of Skyros island, in Greece, reported that the island’s doctor has been practicing medicine with a forged certificate. The Mayor also requested a new doctor for the post as the current...

Greece's lingering economic crisis is making Greeks cut back on medicines as well as other necessities, with 33 percent saying they've curbed how much they take because they can't afford it, according to a survey that also showed60% believe...

On September 10, the Health Ministry and the industry representatives signed an agreement for distributing free medicine to the poor and uninsured, in order to create a network of free medicine distributors, which will operate along similar lines to...

An assistance caravan with medicine and paramedical material arrived from Austria to the  Elpis Hospital in Athens. The medicine is for the uninsured, who lost their health care insurance along with their jobs. “We have received five tons of...