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Supermarkets in Belgium could soon be allowed to sell medical supplies such as sterile dressings under a new plan that would rid pharmacies of their monopoly.
Parents whose babies are born prematurely can keep a constant eye on them via new webcams in the neonatal unit at UZ Brussel.
There are few barriers to getting health insurance coverage in Belgium; it is thankfully one of the easier tasks expats have to take on when moving here.
A doctor in Laeken who sold sick notes for €5 without any medical examination has been fined €9,000 and handed a one-month suspended jail sentence.
Pharmacists in Belgium have been told to remind customers about safe limits of paracetamol consumption, following a recent incident in which a Ghent woman suffered liver failure from a painkiller
A retired doctor shocked Radio 2 listeners this week with the statement that he and his colleagues “had to let people die” in hospital “because we simply couldn’t think anymore”.
The Saint-Luc University Hospital in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert has released plans for a whole new campus, which will be built next to its current building.
An expansion of two neighbourhood health clinics in Schaerbeek and plans for a new one in Laeken are back on the table now that an investigation into the system by the federal health ministry is c
Some 25% of children in Brussels are overweight, and one in seven is considered obese.
