https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/op-ed-three-years-after-the-start-of-gesy-we-look-back-at-the-vision-and-the-challenges
In a few days, it will be three years since the implementation of the General Health System (GESY) in Cyprus, the largest reform ever carried out in the country....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/op-ed-america-has-more-guns-than-any-other-country
America has been shaken — once again — by mass shootings. On May 14, a gunman killed 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo. On Tuesday, at least 19 children and two adults were killed in Uvalde, Texas. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mitsotakis-don-t-forget-cyprus
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asked the US Congress not to forget Cyprus, in a historic address, he delivered on Tuesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-mandatory-use-of-masks-will-soon-be-abolished
Minister of Health Michalis Hatjipantela sees a summer without health restrictions. In his interview with KATHIMERINI on Sunday, the Minister of Health said that the summer should go by without problems or restrictions if no new variants of the Omicron mutation appear....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/spread-of-covid-baffles-locked-down-shanghai-residents
The cases underscore how difficult it is to stop the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant as China clings to its zero-COVID policy, perpetuating a cycle of lockdowns, as well as bafflement, anguish and anger....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kyriakides-one-step-closer-to-a-european-health-union
The foundations and backbone of the European Health Union are being laid today, Kyriakides tells CNA...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/acute-hepatitis-in-children-the-warning-signs
Scientists and public health authorities are looking into the recent outbreak of acute hepatitis in children, recently recorded in several countries around the world, and trying to find its cause....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/unic-pharmacy-student-selected-for-prestigious-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting
Mr. Angelos Odyseakis, a University of Nicosia fourth-year Pharmacy student, has been selected to participate in the upcoming 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry, joining a select cohort of 600 young scientists from around the world that will engage with more than 30 Nobel Laureates....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/nipd-genetics-announces-new-foresentia-panel-to-include-tumor-mutational-burden-biomarker
NIPD Genetics announces the launch of a new ForeSENTIA tumor profile panel, Pan-Cancer Plus, which includes the analysis of the genomic biomarker Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB). ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/have-reasearchers-found-a-way-to-turn-back-the-clock
People could eventually be able to turn back the clock on the cell-aging process by 30 years, according to researchers who have developed a technique for reprogramming skin cells to behave as if they are much younger....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ema-no-evidence-to-support-a-fourth-covid-shot
EU health agencies said on Wednesday there was no evidence to support the use of a fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna in the general population, but they recommend a second booster for people aged 80 and above....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/more-humanitarian-aid-will-be-sent-to-ukraine-on-the-5th-of-april
The second batch of humanitarian aid for Ukraine is expected to be shipped from Cyprus on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, via the EU Civil Protection Agency, Commissioner for the Citizen Panayiotis Sentonas has said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-russia-while-providing-an-additional-$1b-in-humanitarian-aid
The United States will expand its sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine, targeting members of the country’s parliament and the central bank’s gold reserves, the White House announced Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/expert-says-testing-blindly-a-waste-of-money
A medical expert in Cyprus says wide-ranging rapid tests on the island have been a waste of money, adding he was in favor of targeted testing but only if it was focused on specific populations and criteria...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/uk-approves-first-drug-that-prevents-covid
A first-of-its-kind drug that stops people from catching Covid has been approved in the UK by the country's medical watchdog....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/meeting-underway-to-coordinate-arrival-of-refugees-from-ukraine
A meeting chaired by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris is underway this morning to coordinate actions regarding the arrival of refugees from Ukraine into Cyprus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/olena-zalenska-implores-the-west-to-help-ukraine
With targets on the backs of her and her husband and from an undisclosed safe place, Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska sent out a desperate two-word plea to America and the world: "STOP WAR."...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ukraine-s-capital-under-fire-3-eu-nation-leaders-to-visit
Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv on Tuesday, with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighborhood as the leaders of three European Union countries planned a bold visit to Ukraine’s embattled capital in a show of support....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-vaccine-findings-pose-tough-questions-for-parents-of-young-children
For American parents, particularly those with young children, the last couple of months have been dizzying and beyond frustrating....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/usa-first-man-to-receive-pig-heart-transplant-dies
The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/study-certain-blood-types-may-be-more-or-less-vulnerable-to-covid
Blood type doesn’t affect much in our daily lives. In fact, most people don’t even know whether they’re Type A, B, AB, or O. But the seemingly-banal detail might be a factor in who comes under the thumb of 2020’s worldwide tyrant—that is, coronavirus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-president-skips-brussels-meeting-on-ukraine
The Republic of Cyprus will be represented by the Greek premier during Thursday’s emergency European Council summit on Ukraine after the Cypriot government said President Nicos Anastasiades had a speaking engagement in Dubai...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/exports-of-halloumi-medicine-and-other-local-products-to-the-uae
The enhancement of trade relations between Cyprus and the UAE, was discussed on Wednesday in Dubai, during a meeting between Cyprus Energy, Commerce, and Industry Minister, Natasa Pilides, and UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani Ahmad Al Zeyoudi....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/who-is-dr-robert-malone-and-what-is-the-controversy-surrounding-his-statements-on-mrna-vaccines
Robert Malone, the self-proclaimed inventor of mRNA vaccines and a skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines that use mRNA technology, has skyrocketed to celebrity status in recent months....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nasal-spray-could-be-the-future-of-the-covid-vaccine
When we think about COVID vaccines, most of us picture a pointy needle — and some of us might even faint. But what if getting vaccinated was as easy as inhaling a nasal spray?...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/op-ed-the-far-reaching-benefits-of-mrna-technology
The mRNA platform is a tantalizingly simple and transformative technology, scaling the scope of targeting diseases in ways that were previously unimaginable....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/msd-pill-how-many-cypriots-received-it-and-how-many-were-hospitalized
More and more drugs are being included in doctors' inventories in order to deal with the pandemic. At the moment, at the European level, eight are available - pills and monoclonal antibodies - which Cyprus has taken care to secure....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/antiviral-pill-by-pfizer-expected-in-cyprus-by-mid-february
Plaxovid, the Pfizer antiviral pill against COVID-19 has been approved by EMA and is expected in Cyprus by mid-February,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/desperate-afghan-families-resorting-to-selling-their-kidneys-and-even-their-own-children-to-buy-food
Entire families in Afghanistan have been forced to sell their kidneys so they can buy food, as the country plunges deeper into a humanitarian crisis....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/anti-vaxxers-making-‘at-least-$2-5m-a-year-from-publishing-on-substack
A group of vaccine-sceptic writers are generating revenues of at least $2.5m (£1.85m) a year from publishing newsletters for tens of thousands of followers on the online publishing platform Substack, according to new research....
