Greece Brain Drain Hampers Recovery From Economic Crisis

Angeliki Tziaka moved to the U.K. soon after the Greek government began cutting pensions and public sector wages in the first bailout program agreed upon with international creditors in 2010. She felt the choice was clear: work abroad or risk a long spell of unemployment at home. “I’d recently graduated in medicine and I wanted […]

Tobacco industry hampers global strategy to stop smoking epidemic – WHO

The global tobacco industry continues to interfere with governments’ efforts to implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) policy package which aims to reduce peoples demand for tobacco, the UN agency has said. Countries that are signatories to WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control are bound by the international treaty to implement the so-called MPOWER policy, […]