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After a week of increased flu activity, Belgium fulfilled all the necessary criteria and a flu epidemic was officially declared earlier this week by the National Scientific Institute of Public Hea
More than one in 10 pharmaceutical drugs available on the Belgian market lack efficacy or are even dangerous for the patient.
Patients with a rare or very complex cancer should only be treated in hospitals with a special statute, said the Federal Knowledge Centre for Health Care in a report released yesterday.
January reared its cold and rainy head this past Belgian Blue Monday, and with it comes an onslaught of winter illnesses.
The Flemish medical sector is circulating a petition against the plan of federal public health minister Laurette Onkelinx to abolish the limit on the number of new doctors by allowing students to
A proposal to extend the right to euthanasia to minors passed by a vote of 26 to 8 yesterday in the Senate committee on justice and social affairs.
Surgeons of Leuven’s University Hospital have identified a previously unknown ligament in the knee.
Five percent of doctors working in hospital across Belgium suffer from a burnout, while an additional 18% are at serious risk of having one.
The multidisciplinary transplant team of Leuven’s University Hospital has succeeded in preserving a pair of donor lungs for more than 11 hours before transplantation.
