HIO to introduce one-time password verification for GESY call centre calls
The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) has announced the forthcoming introduction of an identity verification procedure for telephone contact with the…
Category: Health
Cyprus to host European Day for Organ, Tissue and Cell Donation in Paphos
Cyprus is hosting this year’s European Day for Organ, Tissue and Cell Donation, a Council of Europe initiative to inform…
WHO monitors Kenya Ebola case
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it is working closely with the Kenyan government to intensify control measures…
Cancer overtakes heart disease as Cyprus’s leading cause of death for first time in 30 years
Cancer, and not cardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death in the Republic of Cyprus for the first time…
Pennsylvania measles cases pass 1,000 in largest state outbreak for more than three decades
More than 1,000 measles cases have been confirmed in the US state of Pennsylvania this year, with five deaths and…
Cyprus Medical Association seeks tougher penalties for fake doctors after alternative-therapy complaints
The Pancyprian Medical Association (PIS) will press for harsher penalties for people who use the title of doctor without a…
Cyprus surgeries at risk of postponement amid blood shortage
Surgeries in Cyprus could be postponed due to a shortage of blood, with thalassemia patients also affected, the newspaper Fileleftheros…
More than one in three illicit drug samples contain unexpected substances, testing finds
Joseph Janes, Swansea University When someone buys a drug illegally, they cannot be sure exactly what is in it.…
Cyprus health minister: cross-border care is ‘necessary’, not optional, for small island state
Neophytos Charalambides tells European Parliament event that patients must be properly informed of their rights to seek treatment abroad Cross-border…
Greece’s birth rate decline slows sharply, offering rare glimmer of hope on demographic crisis
Family support measures credited as fall in annual births roughly halves compared with recent years Greece’s long-running decline in births…