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A leading doctor has called for more inspections of emergency services and intensive care departments after several hospitals in Belgium were found to be generating extra income through dubious me
Belgium urgently needs to appoint a national diabetes co-ordinator, according to Johan Wens, GP and part-time lecturer at Antwerp University.
One in 30 babies in Belgium is born to parents who have undergone some form of fertility treatment.
So far, 80 Belgian women have volunteered to be photographed for a public awareness campaign on abortion, reports De Standaard.
Belgium-based pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma NV was sold to Perrigo in a bid to expand its portfolio of over-the-counter drugs and broaden its presence in the European market.
Belgian doctors are increasingly wary of being involved in a law suit, leading one in seven doctors to refuse to see a patient when there is a high risk of complications, according to De Morge
For the first time in Belgium, a woman fell pregnant using one of her frozen eggs, thanks to a technique implemented by the fertility clinic at UZ Brussels hospital in Jette.
Surgeons at the University Hospital Leuven (UZ Leuven) have succeeded in placing a new cardiac valve in a one-year-old baby via a catheter in the liver, which is a world first.
A patient who opts for a single room in a hospital in Flanders rarely pays a supplement of more than 100% of the total bill.
