Health

A new WHO digital platform, UHC Watch, reveals that up to 20% of households across Europe experience catastrophic health spending, mainly due to out-of-pocket costs for medications. These expenses force people to forgo other basic needs such as food, housing, and heating.

The government is revamping school cafeteria menus to combat the country's high childhood obesity rates, which are the highest in Europe, according to the World Health Organization.

Details emerged on Oct. 20 regarding a criminal network that illicitly placed newborns into intensive care units for financial gain, including an organizational chart of the scheme, with the justice minister revealing that the investigation continued to deepen. 

A new digitization project undertaken by the Ministry of Digital Governance and the Ministry of Health, will enable interoperability among Greek hospitals, allowing doctors - regardless of their location, city, or region - to access the national electronic health records of patients without requiring them to present their medical files each time.

In just 18 months, a pioneering program in Greece has averted approximately 60 deaths and 500 hospital-acquired infections, officials report. Launched in late 2021, the initiative targets a common yet often deadly complication in hospitals: central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI).

Joanna Kypriou, a Nutrition, Health & Wellness Coach, speaks with Cantina, examining how unhealthy eating habits affect our psychology.

We know that there can be impacts on your mental health if you scroll through your phone too much during the day. But could where you lay your phone to rest at night affect your health too?

There’s certainly chatter about how cellphones affect our health in general, especially when it comes to the potentially harmful effects of radiation.

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared mpox a global health emergency, mpox is highly unlikely to lead to school closures, according to physicians and public health experts in the U.S., local media reported.

European Union member-states will follow a collaborative model in 2025, with the aim of identifying emerging health technologies and to respond to the major challenges posed to the health systems by the development of new drugs and diagnostic tools.

The tension between the health minister and the Panhellenic Medical Association is an acute symptom of a chronic ailment - the lack of organization in the public health system and the absence of necessary coordination with the private sector. And so, the National Health System (ESY) finds itself without the necessary medical personnel, without having a way to call on private doctors for help.