European Union Commissioner responsible for health and consumer protection Markos Kyprianou briefed here today Cyprus President Tassos Kyprianou about issues of his competence and the overall EU strategy on health matters. Welcoming Papadopoulos for the first time at his office, Cypriot Commissioner Kyprianou said it was a great honour for him to have been proposed

The European Union launched today in all its 25 members a new anti-smoking campaign, under the slogan ‘HELP – For a life without tobacco’, at an estimated cost of 72 million euro. The European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Cypriot Markos Kyprianou said that eight out of ten smokers start in their teenage years

Cyprus, compared to national population size, received the largest number of asylum requests during 2000-2004, with 22 asylum-seekers per 1,000 inhabitants According to a 2004 report on asylum levels and trends in industrialised countries, released today by the United Nations, the number of asylum-seekers in 2004 was the highest on record for Cyprus. According to

It should have been part and parcel with the NHS The government’s forced reduction in the prices of some 920 medicines was premature, as it was not introduced within a greater plan of starting the national health service (NHS), according to a leading pharmaceuticals representative. Katia Polycarpou Gritzali, General Manager of the GlaxoSmithKline operations in