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After the recent sudden deaths of young footballers Gregory Mertens and Tim Nicot, N-VA senator Pol Van Den Driessche (pictured) is advocating the introduction of basic first aid training
According to Belgium’s Foundation Against Cancer, 15% of lung cancer cases in Belgium – or 1,050 cases annually – are caused by fine particles in the air.
A new diagnostic blood test to detect the early signs of osteoarthritis will become available by the end of this year in Belgium, according to an announcement made this week by University of Liège
Many countries are taking a closer look at gluten, a protein found in certain grains, including wheat, barley and rye, ubiquitous in Western diets.
Europe faces an unprecedented obesity crisis, which will affect nine out of 10 Belgian women by 2030, according to figures released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) during a confer
About 860,000 people in Belgium take care of a dependent person on a daily basis.
Federal minister of health Maggie De Block is calling on home care associations to start trial projects that help new mothers and their babies stay in hospital for shorter periods and recove
Three people a day are diagnosed with HIV in Belgium, and many more are HIV carriers who do not know that they are infected.
