At the northwestern tip of Greece, and just four nautical miles from Corfu, there is a small island called Mathraki, and friend Marinos Charalampopoulos takes us on atour.

The construction and the first phase of the installation of the slope elevator, which will offer safe access for mobility impaired visitors to the monuments of the Acropolis, have been completed.

A widely used antidiabetic drug, metformin, could be used in the future as a preventative measure for dementia. A new study, led by Dr. Katerina Samara, an endocrinologist of Greek descent in Australia, shows that patients with type 2 diabetes who take metformin show a slower impairment of their cognitive functions and a lower chance of dementia later.