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Several hundred thousand Belgians qualify to pay lower fees at the doctor, pharmacy and hospital, but are not aware of it, often paying three times too much, writes Het Laatste Ni
Switzerland is the best place in the world to grow old, according to the annual Global AgeWatch Index.
The Institute for Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp is has launched the Be-PrEP-ared study, the first Flemish research project on the applicability of preventative HIV medication.
More than a quarter of the people in Belgium who have attempted suicide had no contact with a general practitioner or psychiatrist in the three months following the incident, according to a
Belgium’s Queen Mathilde met European experts at a congress on international vaccination policy on Wednesday, an event sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Antwerp University (UAnt
The former Belgian royal couple King Albert and Queen Paola have called off all planned activities for an undefined period.
Federal justice minister Koen Geens has called for the creation of a third forensic psychiatric centre (FPC) to allow the removal of the last internees from ordinary prisons.
Six Belgian municipalities – Hasselt, Comines-Warneton, Jette, Liège, Marche-en-Famenne and Mouscron – have joined a European intiative to fight obesity among young people.
The Scientific Institute for Public Health (WIV) has issued a reminder than women need to be vaccinated against whooping cough when they become pregnant even if it is not their first pregnancy.
