Tag: medicine
Sideritis: Greece’s Famous Mountain Tea and its Ancient Secrets of Healing
Greeks are not known for their love for tea, as the British or the Turkish are. However, when it comes to tea, the first...
Athens among European Cities Vying for post-Brexit EU Agencies
Athens is among 27 European cities competing to host the agencies that will have to be relocated when Britain completes its exit from the bloc, the European Council announced.
EU Antibiotics Awareness Day: Greek Overuse of Antibiotics Is a Matter of Concern
On the occasion of European Antibiotics Awareness Day on November 18, the Greek Research Company and Primary School Education Health Care are urging citizens...
Doctors Say That Educating and Diagnosing Diabetes in Adolescence is Key to Understanding Disease
Diabetes is a known enemy and scientists say that ignorance breeds fear about the disease. One conclusion that experts have come to is that by better informing...
Research Shows 300,000 Greeks at Risk of Strokes Related to Myocardial Infarction
Doctors believe that early prognosis and diagnosis of conditions linked to thrombosis such as atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction could save thousands of lives each...
Apremilast Drug to Treat Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Available in Greece This March
New clinical evidence on apremilast, a specific drug used to treat psoriasis, was presented at the 25th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and...
Diazoma Unveils New Plans to Promote Epidaurus Theater
Diazoma, the group for the protection of ancient theaters, presented its developmental plans for Epidaurus, the well-preserved ancient theater in the Peloponnese famed for its...
Greek Geneticists Claim New Procedure Reverses Menopause [video]
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,...
Three Percent of the World’s Top Scientists are Greek
Nicholas Metropolis (right) was a Greek-American physicist who designed the MANIAC I computer in 1952
Greeks may be only 0.2 percent of the world population...
Greek Doctors Remove Giant Tumor from 5-year-old Girl
A five-year-old girl from Greece who had been considered chubby most of her life was transferred to the pediatric surgery clinic of the General...
Worldwide Medical Innovation in Greece
A Greek orthopedic doctor was able to accomplish the impossible, by giving a patient back his thumb after he had lost it in an...
Greek Former PM George Papandreou on Marijuana: “Legalize it”
In an article entitled “An innovative approach to the use of marijuana,” which was uploaded on Mr. George Papandreou’s personal website, the former Prime...
