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R U OK? Day 2024

‘Ask R U OK?, Any Day’ Today, on their National Day of Action, R U OK? are calling on all Australians to ask R U OK? Any Day because life happens every day. Thousands of community groups, workplaces, schools, suicide prevention networks,…

12 September, 2024

GREECE·HEALTH

Chemotherapy treatment “postponed” in big Athens hospital due to lack of funds

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in Attiko Hospital in Athens were shocked to be informed that their treatment is postponed on indefinite time. The patients were informed by phone last Thursday. Hospital workers’ President and doctor at Attiko ICU, Mihalis Rizos, told news…

25 September, 2019

COMMUNITY·HEALTH

Dementia and the specific needs of Greek Australians

By 2057 there will be an estimated 1 million Australians living with dementia. In that same year there will be 8.8 million people over the age of 65 years. In 2017, 15% of Australians (3.8 million) were aged over 65 years. By…

20 September, 2019

GREECE·HEALTH

Study finds that Greeks drink much less alcohol than most other Europeans

According to a recent study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Greeks drink less alcohol than the average European. More specifically, the WHO study includes findings from thirty different European countries (the 28 member-states of the EU plus Switzerland and…

13 September, 2019

COMMUNITY·HEALTH

Food star ratings fail on sugar: Choice

Some top-selling cereals that have four out of five health stars plummet to just 1.5 when added sugars are factored in, Choice says. Choice is demanding a major change to Australia’s star rating system for food, saying consumers are being denied the…

26 June, 2019

HEALTH·SCIENCE

Study: Brain drain is the biggest worry of Greeks and Europeans

A survey conducted recently by YouGov for the European Council on Foreign Relations shows that the nations of Southern and Eastern Europe worry more about emigration than immigration. The trend of millions of young, educated people leaving Southern and Eastern Europe to…

5 April, 2019

HEALTH

Vitamin C tablet helps diabetes

A Victorian study has found popping a vitamin C tablet twice a day could help more than one million Australians with type 2 diabetes reduce their blood sugar levels. The Deakin University study, published in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism journal, found…

13 February, 2019

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