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Belgium’s National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance, Inami, will no longer reimburse telephone consultations with general practitioners, it has announced.
Fourteen years after a ban on indoor smoking in bars and restaurants, almost one in 10 Brussels establishments still allows it, according to an investigation by Dutch-language media outlet Bruzz.
Belgian public health agency Sciensano has said that this year’s flu epidemic is the worst of its kind since the Covid pandemic.
Despite a ban on the sale of nitrous oxide - or laughing gas - in Belgium, the number of recovered nitrous oxide cylinders in the Brussels region is increasing significantly, according to the late
The warning level for respiratory infections in Belgium has been raised from code yellow to orange, according to health minister Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit), meaning many healthcare staff are ba
Belgium’s "mutuelles" – social security companies that give out sickness and health payments – had €1.2 million in government funding withheld in 2023, because they did not do enough to help the l
Three out of four Brussels hospitals are unable to pay their bills, according to the federation representing all of the city's care institutions, Gibbis, following the annual national study on the
September marks a crucial time for raising awareness about childhood cancer, a disease that affects thousands of children and families across Europe.
A fifth of Brussels schools are exposed to severe air pollution, according to a new study from environmental organisation Les Chercheurs d'Air using UCLouvain's SIRANE software programme for model
