Health

The U.S. Senate health committee’s Republican chairman on Wednesday blamed the approach toward vaccines taken by President Donald Trump’s administration for recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania and ...

Specialty medications, the high-cost therapies that demand special handling, monitoring, or administration training, now claim at least half of U.S. pharmaceutical spending while treating fewer than 5% of patients. That ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides called on men to seek medical advice on prostate cancer screening. Speaking at the Europa Uomo event marking European prostate cancer awareness day on Tuesday, Charalambides ...

Vaccine hesitancy in rich countries means ending measles as a global public health threat is not currently possible, Bill Gates told Reuters in an interview. The Microsoft co-founder turned billionaire ...

Police said on Friday there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges over a complaint regarding a patient hospitalised after a medical treatment. Police confirmed they received a letter from ...

Haematologist Sotiris Koumas on Thursday warned against the use of plasmapheresis outside established therapeutic settings, saying the procedure can cause complications ranging from mild to serious and should only be ...

People who “should not be hospitalised in psychiatric hospitals” are currently inpatients at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital, House health committee chairwoman Savia Orphanidou said on Thursday. Addressing the day’s ...

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The House health committee pressed for expedited action on staffing and oncology services at Limassol general hospital during a visit on Thursday. Committee chair Savia Orphanidou said four specialties required ...

Six people have so far been infected with West Nile virus in Cyprus, while another two suspected cases are under investigation, the health ministry told the Cyprus Mail on Thursday. “...

For now, gastric cancer is a group of diseases and thus is being treated as such. Thus, for some patients with gastric cancer, information about biomarkers is taken into account ...

The health insurance organisation on Thursday moved to defend itself from criticism after a four-year-old boy died of meningitis, with his family claiming that he had not been diagnosed in ...

Moving to a metro city can change more than your address, commute and monthly budget. It can also alter the type of healthcare you may need and the amount you ...

The cabinet has approved a national strategy for multiple sclerosis, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides announced on Tuesday. Speaking at the presidential palace following the morning cabinet meeting, Charalambides described the ...

A 74-year-old man has tested positive for West Nile virus and is being treated in the ICU at Nicosia general hospital, the health ministry confirmed on Thursday. Speaking to the ...

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Doctors contracted with the national health system (Gesy) are reportedly scrambling to modify patients’ prescriptions following a mass recall of pharmaceutical products by Remedica. According to Phileleftheros, patients are also ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive ordercalling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations, which he said would give U.S. children “gold-standard” protection and align ...

The Cyprus Union of Nursing Staff (Oyyk-Sek) on Thursday welcomed Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides’ initiative and the cabinet’s decision to approve an additional grant scheme for nursing and midwifery ...

The cabinet on Thursday approved a new annual grant scheme for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students, with Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides describing it as “a particularly important step towards addressing “...

The Israeli Hadassah Medical Organisation has formally launched its first European medical centre outside Israel in Limassol, marking the latest stage of a broader expansion into Cyprus. A blessing ceremony ...

Viral hepatitis accounted for 0.21 deaths per 100,000 people in Cyprus in the year 2023, Eurostat data released by on Tuesday showed, while at an EU level the virus caused 0.64 deaths per 100,000 people. ...

Symptoms such as persistent bloating and abdominal discomfort should not be ignored, as they could be early warning signs of gynaecological cancer, the Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (...

By Marilena Tapaki*, Genetic Counsellor, Medicover Genetics, Cyprus With personalised medicine reshaping modern healthcare, genetic counselling has become a vital service. Advances in genetics furnish better diagnosis, prevention and treatment ...