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Friday’s cyber attack crippled the NHS and hit more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries.
But as people return to work on Monday and turn on their computers, the head of the EU’s police agency and cyber experts said the number of victims could rise.

“Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children … Normal males are aroused by children.”

The high price of new cancer drugs is indefensible and unsustainable, say two of the world’s leading cancer research institutions, who propose a different way to develop them that could sideline big pharma.

NHS hospitals in England will have a legal duty to charge overseas patients upfront for non-urgent care if they are not eligible for free treatment.
From April this year, foreign patients could be refused operations unless they cover their costs in advance.
NHS Improvement, which oversees the trusts, said hospitals would no longer have to chase money they are owed.

A team from the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, headed by two Greek researchers, Dr. Konstaninos Tzelepis and Dr. George Vasiliou, in collaboration with joint project leader Dr. Kosuke Yusa, have made an incredible breakthrough in the fight against one the most aggressive types of cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

Thousands of Greek doctors living and working in Britain are sitting on pins and needles, following recent statements by the county’s State Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt that the foreign medical staff  employed in the National Health System (NHS) would be gradually replaced with British doctors.

The Turkish Health Ministry will organize a health tourism summit in London between June 25 and 27, a ministry official said May 11.

A team of inspectors from the Troika of international lenders is back in Cyprus to conclude the fourth evaluation of the country's economic adjustment program.