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GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the price charged for its pneumococcal vaccine when given to refugees, following complaints about the product's "exorbitant" cost by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

A group of 80 migrants with symptoms of acute food poisoning were rushed from a makeshift camp at the port of Piraeus to a local hospital on Friday.

The migrants, who included men, women and children, were all transferred to the Attikon hospital and most were discharged after a checkup. Six adults and 13 children were admitted for treatment.

The Hellenic Society of Dermatology and Venereology (EDAE) will be offering the public free screenings for melanomas and skin cancer between May 9 and 13 throughout Greece on the occasion of European Melanoma Day Thursday and Greek Week Against Skin Cancer.

For further information, call 215.215.8523.

Up to 300,000 bicycles will be distributed this year to children and teenagers in order to encourage regular physical activity, Turkish Health Ministry announced on April 21. The bicycles will also be given to the municipalities in order to encourage them to construct bicycle roads. 

Officers of the police's narcotics unit on Wednesday detained a 32-year-old Venezuelan woman after determining that she had swallowed nearly a kilogram of cocaine in 88 packages.

The woman arrived at Athens International Airport on a flight from Sao Paulo via Abu Dhabi.

In a huge immunization effort in 150 countries, health teams will on April 17 launch what they hope will be the final push against polio. 

Forbes magazine has put the story of a Turkey-born biotech billionaire, Osman Kibar, who has been named the inventor of the "God Pill," along with his company Samumed on its latest cover as one of the top 30 global game changers in the world. 

Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord. 

The Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer (KAÇUV) has been named the 12th Changemaker of the 7th season of the Sabanci Foundation's Turkey's Changemakers Program.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, every year 200,000 children are diagnosed with cancer.

Elizabeth Anne Holland says she love tennis. We are not sure whether it is possible to actually play the sport with more than one bouncing balls….Maybe it’s time to consider a breast reduction Elizabeth, if you plan on reaching any Grand slams any time soon..