Athens Medical School

Spyridon Moulopoulos, a pioneering cardiologist who performed the first coronary angiography in Greece and invented the intra-aortic balloon pump, has died, aged 98.

Born in Athens in 1926, he studied at the Athens University Medical School, from which he graduated in 1950 and received a doctorate in 1953.

The Hellenic Medical Society of New York (HMS), with its roots in the Hellenic American Medical Association founded in 1920 by the renowned researcher and doctor, George Papanicolaou, is steadily building bridges and opening new channels of communication among Greek or Greek-descended scientists. The society represents over 300 doctors in the state of New York.

Health and Psychological support to the victims of the fire in Penteli by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Athens Medical School professor and epidemiologist Sotiris Tsiodras had sounded the alarm about a potential increase of dengue fever cases in Europe due to climate change.

Addressing a public health seminar in Athens on Monday, Tsiodras said that in South America, every hospital bed has a mosquito net to prevent the transmission of dengue fever between patients.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received on Monday the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine against the coronavirus at Attiko Hospital in Athens.

Mitsotakis had received the first dose of the jab on December 27, 2020, when the first batch of the Pfizer vaccines arrived in Greece.

Nearly two years after an Egyptian migrant died at the Moria reception and identification center on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, his family has filed a lawsuit against Greek authorities over his death, saying it was caused by the negligence of responsible officials.

The association representing people living with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, in Greece have written to Health Minister Andreas Xanthos to complain about major shortages in the reagents used in HIV/AIDS tests.

In its second letter to Zervos in the past few months, the association, Positive Voice, described the situation as "dramatic" and appealed to the minister to intervene.

Laboratory inspections on a white powder found in an envelope that was mailed to the capital?s Evelpidon court complex on Wednesday, prompting a security alert, did not test positive for anthrax or other substances associated with bioterrorism, according to Athanasios Tsakris, a microbiologist at Athens Medical School.

Folk painter Theofilos (Hatzimichail) that date back to the Thirties are being conserved by the Ministry of Culture. The 86 works, located at the northern Aegean island of Lesvos, are on display at the Theofilos Museum in Varia. 23 have already been conserved and are open for the public to enjoy in new museum-quality frames in the renovated museum.

The prestigious Athens Medical School will struggle to operate this week as administrative staff strike to protest their inclusion in a troika-imposed mobility scheme in the civil service.