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Turkey seized over 10.15 kilograms (about 22 pounds) of heroin in the northwestern province of Bolu, a police source said on Jan. 21.

Anti-narcotics police, assisted by a sniffer dog, searched a suspicious car on a motorway in Bolu, recovering heroin from the trunk of the vehicle, said the source who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

British scientists have accidentally discovered a new type of cell that kills most cancers. The new discovery could be a huge breakthrough in the search for a universal cure for cancer, writes British newspaper The Telegraph.

More than 2,000 cases of varicella have been registered since the beginning of the year, NOVA reports. This is what health authorities say.

Eight people have died following complications of a flu infection in the last ten days in Greece.

24 people are hospitalized in Intensive Care Units. Most of the patients have other health problems.

The incidence rate is expected to remain high in the coming weeks, which is not uncommon for the season.

The Ministry of Health organised a working seminar on Thursday, attended by Romanian and foreign specialists, patients, family doctors, to prepare an action plan to inform and educate the population regarding the vaccine against HPV, but also about vaccination in general, shows a press release sent AGERPRES.

Medical experts have called on people to observe caution in preventing the spread of flu after official figures on Wednesday pointed to seven deaths over the past week. 

Only one death had been recorded this flu season, in the first week of January. 

In 2017, the proportion of women aged 50-69 years who had been screened for breast cancer (using a mammography) within the previous two years differed greatly among Member States.

The vaccination rate of children in Turkey increased to 98 percent in 2019 with an annual increase of 2 percent, the country's health minister has said, vowing to increase the figure even further with locally-produced vaccines.

Sladic said that the projectile hit the tram when it stopped, and he and his father managed to get out quickly because they were close to the door. He cannot remember the scene exactly, but he does recall hearing "screams and noise".

The presence of fatty deposits called plaques in the walls of the arteries of people who died 500 years ago is surprising scientists

They discovered the most deadly modern disease in mummies. An international team of scientists conducted a computer scan of mummies from Greenland. They lived in the sixteenth century, which showed that even then people suffered from blocked arteries.