Thanos Dimopoulos

Treatments increasingly tailored to individual cases will help boost cancer patients' longevity, ensure a better quality of life and reduce recurrence of cancers in remission, Dr Thanos Dimopoulos, a professor of blood and tumor diseases and former rector of the University of Athens, told Kathimerini in an interview.

As we enter the second month of the new school year and given the high number of COVID-19 cases, many reasonable questions arise regarding the protection of our children against COVID-19.

Those who have completed their vaccination against COVID-19, whether the two-dose or one version, are less likely to be infected, to come down with a serious case of the virus if they are, and to transmit it to others.

That means that individuals who are vaccinated can gradually resume activities that they were forced to avoid in order to keep themselves and others safe.

On World Cancer Day on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis added his voice to warnings by experts underlining the need for regular preventive medical tests.

With the anarchist group Rouvikonas said to be planning a party on Wednesday to "inaugurate" a room it has been occupying at Athens University's School of Philosophy for the past few weeks, Kathimerini understands that the faculty will shut to stop the event going ahead.

3 patients have died after a fire has broke out at the Psychiatric Hospital of Dafni in the municipality of Chaidari, western Attica around 4.30 in the afternoon, Friday. According to information there could be a 4th victim.

Thanos Dimopoulos, head of the Athens University?s medical department was elected as the university?s new rector last Friday.

Among the new rector?s top priorities is a demand for new academic appointments and the reversal of the previous government?s mobility scheme regarding administrative staff.