Health

A 32-year-old Greek woman is on course to give birth to a baby boy carrying DNA from three people. She participated in the first known clinical trial carried out using the Maternal Spindle Transfer technique (MST) for the treatment of...

Greek scientist Dr. Antonis Antoniou, a professor in the field of cancer risk prediction and a lead researcher at the University of Cambridge, is gaining ground in the battle against breast cancer. He is currently leading a research group which...

An outbreak of influenza, commonly known as the winter flu, has killed 18 people across the country in just one week, Greek public health authorities revealed on Friday. New data from the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO)...

It's a little early to say now, but the story of this brilliant Greek-English surgeon might end up becoming one of the biggest stories of 2019. The British weekly The Economist believes this story of a doctor who conceived and...

A new study commissioned by the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, the National School of Public Health and the universities of Patra and Macedonia has revealed that  cigarette smoking in Greece has been drastically reduced. Credit for this sea...

The holiday season has an additional meaning to workers at Greece's largest maternity hospital. The babies in their care are not enveloped in the normal comforts of home and family which we especially associate with the Christmas season, but...

File photo Greek children are among the most overweight in Europe because of their poor eating habits. One in two adults over 60 years of age suffer from hyperlipidemia and/or high blood pressure, and more than one in ten Greek...

A combination of being overweight, not engaging in enough physical activity and an unbalanced diet is the culprit for the growing number of Greeks who are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study conducted by...

By: Phil Butler* According to Dyslexia International, the number of children and adults worldwide who are at risk of lifelong illiteracy because of dyslexia may top 700 million. Some experts say the real number is even higher, and that the...

Cancer can turn from a terminal to a chronic illness within the next 10 years, said surgeon oncologist Yiannis Spiliotis on Sunday. The director of Clinical Counseling at the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki and the Athens Medical Center made...

Philanthropist George D. Behrakis (L) and Trikala Mayor Dimitris Papastergiou (R) The ninth Panhellenic Student Conference, titled "Education for a World Without Smoking"    was held at the Athanasios Trigonis Cultural Center in Trikala recently. The conference is an ongoing project...

The Greek government issued the first two licenses for the cultivation and processing of medical cannabis on Monday, and announced that another twelve licenses will be issued by the end of this year. "There is huge interest, mainly from Canada...

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has released a harsh report about the harsh reality and the lack of social support that most unaccompanied migrant children are experiencing in Greece's so-called migrant hotspots. The Commissioner recorded her...

Hundreds of mothers breastfed their infants in public places in major cities across Greece on Sunday to mark World Breastfeeding Week celebrated throughout the globe. Mothers in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra, Argos, Nafplio, Messolonghi  Nafpaktos and elsewhere, gathered at central points...

The Papanikolaou Prize for 2018 has been awarded to Greek clinical researcher Myria Galazi at St. Bartholomew's hospital in London for her research on metastatic prostate cancer. At an event held at the Greek Center of London, the four candidates...