Health

British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) has signed deals with three companies allowing them to make inexpensive generic versions of its long-acting HIV preventive medicine for use in lower-income countries, where ...

The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but ...

Drugs that combat obesity could for the first time be included on the World Health Organization’s “essential medicines list,” used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income ...

Local students created Enmeal, an innovative application promoting healthy eating with personalised meal plans and recipes aiming to improve quality of life. Heritage private school students created the application in ...

Patient surveys at hospitals will be used to evaluate how much funding each one will receive from the national health scheme (Gesy) at the end of the year, the health ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is close to making a decision on authorization of a second dose of updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters for high-risk people, the Wall Street ...

Data from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, briefly uploaded to a global database by Chinese scientists, gives crucial information on the outbreak’s origins, including of an animal ...

No action can be taken on the patient privacy violation complaint filed by state health services organisation (Okypy) over the photo of the patient left unclothed at Limassol general hospital, ...

Better organisation, staffing and expansion of A&E departments will be discussed in the coming weeks with the state health services organisation (Okypy), Health Minister Popi Kanari announced late ...

Latest version of bill on ambulances gathering dust since 2019 Despite promises, the long-awaited bill regulating the ambulance services has been delayed again, three years after it was submitted to parliament. ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari has said the new government’s highest priority is the strengthening of the national health system Gesy, which has been dogged by negative publicity over the ...

A U.S. judge in Texas on Wednesday heard more than four hours of arguments over a request by anti-abortion groups to ban sales of the abortion pill mifepristone across ...

Free dental checks will be available across all districts’ general hospitals on March 20 as the health ministry seeks to raise awareness of oral hygiene. Free oral hygiene checks will also ...

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people in Cyprus are estimated to be suffering from long Covid-19, the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) said on Wednesday as it announced the publication of manuals to ...

The health ministry on Wednesday issued new advice on booster vaccinations against Covid-19 for adults. The health ministry’s national advisory committee on vaccination recommended the use of VidPrevtyn Beta ...

Nephrologists from public hospitals across Cyprus will be brought in to staff Famagusta general hospital’s hemodialysis unit starting Wednesday, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday. Okypy’s ...

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) struck a $43 billion deal for Seagen Inc (SGEN.O) to add innovative targeted therapies to its portfolio of cancer treatments as it braces for a steep ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO), it emerged on Tuesday, has instructed all hospitals to cut down on surgeries requiring intensive care unit (ICU) stays. The organisation stated that ICU bed ...

Generic medications save consumers millions of euros but yet in Cyprus, beneficiaries of Gesy still don’t trust or choose them, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday. Generic ...

Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) plans to spend $1 billion on drug research and development in the US this year as it works to double its sales in the country by the ...

Drug addiction has been a topic that has been brought up more often than not over recent years. This can be due to several factors. One of them is the ...

A relapse is when a recurrence of a behavior or substance use happens. This occurs after a period of abstinence. A relapse is not considered a failure on your part. ...

The continuous upgrading of national health scheme Gesy will contribute to the timely treatment of patients with kidney disease, according to a statement released by the Cyprus Renal Association ahead ...

If Gesy collapses then the entire Cypriot economy will crumble, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday calling for a change in attitude within public hospitals. Speaking on CyBC radio, ...