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Greek Doctors Make Breakthrough Discovery in Treating Leukemia

Greek doctors leading a team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK, outside Cambridge, have made an incredible breakthrough discovery in the fight against acute meloid leukemia (AML). Dr. Konstantinos Tzelepis and Dr. George Vassiliou -- the...

Two Greek Doctors in Medical Breakthrough Against Heart Failure

Two Greek doctors participated in a ground-breaking trial of heart regeneration using stem cells, a finding that could help millions of people with heart failure, says a Telegraph report. Heart attack patients who were not expected to live more than...

‘Genesis’: The First Greek Doctors Association in Germany

"Genesis" is the name of the first Greek doctors association operating in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The association was founded at the end of 2014 and was officially presented just a week ago in a packed Dusseldorf Municipality hall....

EU Commissioner: Greek Doctors Ready to Help Contain Ebola Epidemic

Greece is the second EU country after Sweden which has responded to an appeal by Christos Stylianides, EU Ebola Coordinator and Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, for mobilization of qualified, trained and experienced health workers, and is...

Greek Doctors Prosper in Germany

At the end of 2013, 1,125 Greek doctors worked in the area of North Rhine - Westphalia in Germany. They constitute the largest group of foreign doctors who "can contribute to the further improvement of the German health system," said Health...

Turkey Invites 5,000 Greek Doctors

According to Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Mehmet Muezzinoglu, Minister of Health of Turkey, is planning on inviting 5,000 Greek doctors in order to fill part of the country’s 20,000 open job positions for doctors. The Turkish official said that the Greek...

Greek Doctors Help Women Seeking Aided Conception

A group of doctors in the UK, among them two Greeks, have successfully used a new method to hormonally stimulate ovaries in women that have resorted to aided reproduction in order to cause ovulation. The scientific team, including Greek scientists Alexander N. Comninos...

More Greek Doctors Work in North Rhine-Westphalia

During the last year, the number of Greek trainee doctors and specialists who work at hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was increased by 14 percent. In particular, the number of Greek doctors working in the most populous state of...

Turkey Invites Greek Doctors to Work

Health Minister of Turkey Mehmet Müezzinoğlu said on October 27, that Greek doctors who are reportedly seeking jobs abroad are welcome in the country, as Doğan News Agency reports. Some 7,000 doctors in Greece are seeking jobs abroad, and we...

French Clinics Offer Job to Greek Doctors

Vitalia, the second largest private hospital group in France with forty-seven healthcare facilities throughout the country, offers employment opportunities to Greek doctors of every specialty. A number of Greek doctors already work in the group’s clinics and declare to be...

German Hospitals Want Greek Doctors

Hospitals in the most populous state of Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, have 12,000 vacant doctor positions and their doors wide open to Greek medical students who want to complete their practice there or Greek doctors who simply want to work...

Charity Concert for Greek Doctors of the World in Düsseldorf

By Aspasia Zontanou Rembetik.on, a well-known musical company in the Rhine-Ruhr area of Germany, presented a fabulous potpourri of Greek music last night and raised  the spirits of the audience. The charity event which was hosted in Z.A.K.K. Düsseldorf is...

Sharp Increase of Greek Doctors in German Hospitals

Germany appears to be flooded with Greek doctors. Recent data showed that Greece has been pumping German hospitals with doctors, followed by the fact that scientists’ immigration has sharply increased during the last years as a result of the...

Blind and Homeless Greek Pianist Overcomes the Odds

Anastasios Pagonidis, a Greek pianist originally from Athens, did not let blindness or homelessness stop him from pursuing his dream to play the piano. The Greek musician, who moved from Athens to London, was left almost blind by a brain...

Germany Dubs Greek Tourism Destinations “High-risk” Covid-19 Areas

On Tuesday, Germany's Robert Koch Institute listed parts of Greece – including tourism magnets the Greek islands – as high-risk areas for Covid-19 because of the rising numbers of infections reported there. The German medical authority officially placed Crete and...