Doctors on PGD: 'Speak to couples: their main concern is their children's lives'
Ethical debates on PGD testing tend to be squared around the respect for life and the integrity of selecting human beings at their conception, a process that mandates discarding...
EXPLAINER | Testing embryos for genetic disorder before implantation
Health Minister Chris Fearne says government will put forward changes to the law regulating in-vitro fertilisation so that pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos will be...
WHO report finds processed meat carcinogenic to humans

Prime Minister calls for wide debate, decisions after international cancer...

Prime Minister calls for wide debate, decisions after...

Jogging track at Ta’ Qali national park proposed

Parks Directorate to increase recreational zones, open spaces accessible to the...

Parks Directorate to increase recreational zones, open...

Doctors report ‘lively exchange of views’ with Mizzi, Fearne

Number of issues need clearance with third parties while a few others remain...

Number of issues need clearance with third parties while a...

€43 million luxury retirement village nearing completion

Naxxar ‘retirement village’ to open in November

Naxxar ‘retirement village’ to open in November

Doctors sound industrial action warning over staffing shortage

Medical Association of Malta gives two weeks' ultimatum for talks before...

Medical Association of Malta gives two weeks' ultimatum...

€3,000 cancer meds are not on government formulary list

Cancer stricken mother calls for reform of government’s medicines...

Cancer stricken mother calls for reform of...

[WATCH] Nobody can resist checking out Abigail Azzopardi’s breast in Nestlé’s cancer appeal

Nestlé bracam video appeals for regular check-ups to prevent breast cancer

Nestlé bracam video appeals for regular check-ups to...

Persona offers free breast screening in new clinic for cancer awareness month

Breast screening consultations, self-examination and a mammogram can help find breast cancer early when it’s easier to treat.

Breast screening consultations, self-examination and a...

Over 67% of elderly in homes are suffering from depression

Study shows that majority of elderly home residents are likely to suffer from...

Study shows that majority of elderly home residents are...

[WATCH] Two additional hospital wards by November, new bed management practices

€11.5 million medical admission units to hold 68 beds • A&E department to have hospitality lounge and observation area

€11.5 million medical admission units to hold 68 beds...

St Vincent de Paul excluded from elderly care home standards

Hospital services at Malta’s largest elderly home allow its exemption...

Hospital services at Malta’s largest elderly home...

Government to appoint board of directors for mental health services

Richmond Foundation launches mental health first aid programme

Richmond Foundation launches mental health first aid...

Elderly home nurses will have to speak in English or Maltese

New set of minimum standards that all care homes need to apply by ten years,...

New set of minimum standards that all care homes need to...

Nestlé Fitness unites 100 people in the fight against breast cancer

Nestlé Malta Limited is launching a nationwide bus shelter advertising...

Nestlé Malta Limited is launching a nationwide bus...

Researchers discover new strong genetic cause for osteoporosis and fractures

Maltese researchers Professor Angela Xuereb and Dr Melissa Formosa among researchers that discovered the genetic cause

Maltese researchers Professor Angela Xuereb and Dr Melissa...

[WATCH] Elderly homes will have to sign care contracts with their residents

Justyne Caruana launches 39 national minimum standards that all old people's homes will have to abide by within the next ten years 

Justyne Caruana launches 39 national minimum standards that...

Blood donations and gay men: Is it all bad blood?

Concerns persist about the potential consequences of the removal of such a...

Concerns persist about the potential consequences of the...

Cardiac MRIs to be offered at Mater Dei

Patients would have to travel to Monza, Italy for the imaging procedure in the past. 

Patients would have to travel to Monza, Italy for the...