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Half of Belgians are overweight, and about 14% are obese, according to the most recent health survey conducted by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP).
The federal minister of health, Maggie De Block, is working on a decree that would enable the sale of medicinal cannabis in chemists across the country.
The results of a mass colon cancer screening in Flanders shows that slightly more than 10% of participants, who were aged 66 to 74, had irregular results.
Belgium urgently needs to appoint a national diabetes co-ordinator, according to Johan Wens, GP and part-time lecturer at Antwerp University.
Seven out of 10 people in Belgium show up to work even when they are ill or injured, according to a survey by HR specialist company Securex.
US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power was in Brussels yesterday to meet development cooperation minister Alexander De Croo, health minister Maggie De Block and the newly appointed Ebola coordinat
Boil your bugs before you eat them, say the High Council for Public Health and the Federal Food Agency.
The University of Antwerp has been commissioned by the European Union to come up with a plan to get Belgian healthcare providers to be more cautious with antibiotics.
The pharmaceutical division of multinational Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has put up €200 million for its Belgian subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica to speed up production of a vaccine against th
