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5th annual awareness walk organized by Europa Donna Malta

Walk the Pink Road Together is the theme for the 5th annual awareness walk...

Walk the Pink Road Together is the theme for the 5th annual...

Maltese retain highest expectation of living healthy lives in old-age

In the EU27, both women and men could expect at birth to live 62 years in a...

In the EU27, both women and men could expect at birth to...

Tax fast foods, says doctor about Malta’s obesity problem

Tax foods that create our obesity epidemic and subsidise healthy food, says...

Tax foods that create our obesity epidemic and subsidise...

Overweight parents have overweight kids

The sugars of the fathers and mums live long after them, it seems…

The sugars of the fathers and mums live long after them, it...

Former health minister – parties’ health proposals ‘a recipe for bankruptcy’

Former health minister Louis Deguara gives candid view of party promises to pay for private sector provision of public health services that cannot be delivered...

Former health minister Louis Deguara gives candid view of...

EU set to ban animal testing for cosmetics forever

Campaign pioneers The Body Shop and Cruelty Free International celebrate after...

Campaign pioneers The Body Shop and Cruelty Free...

[READ] Health and Fitness January 2013 edition online

The merriment of the Christmas season seems nothing but a distant memory. It...

The merriment of the Christmas season seems nothing but a...

Girls born in 2000 to get free vaccine against cervical cancer

National vaccination campaign against cervical cancer to target all of Malta's...

National vaccination campaign against cervical cancer to...

Health Ministry launches colorectal screening service

Health Authorities plan to invite up to 1,300 people per month to take the test.

Health Authorities plan to invite up to 1,300 people per...

Government agrees to Labour’s amendment on Embryo Protection Authority's role

Embryo Protection Bill enters committee stage; MPs to meet on Friday morning to discuss amendments in the House of Representatives.

Embryo Protection Bill enters committee stage; MPs to meet...

'Let's not make a political issue out of mental health law', Galea urges MPs

Amendments to the law see the setting up of a Commissioner whose role will be to see that the patients’ rights are safeguarded.

Amendments to the law see the setting up of a Commissioner...

Regulating number of embryos per IVF cycle safeguards the baby, doctors say

Professors and doctors urge Parliament to ensure the law is restricted to a maximum of two embryos transferred per IVF cycle.

Professors and doctors urge Parliament to ensure the law is...

Sick with flu? Taking antibiotics is not the solution

Since most of the time flu is caused by a virus, and not bacteria, taking...

Since most of the time flu is caused by a virus, and not...

IVF twist: Poland to fund unregulated IVF services

Facing an impasse from conservatives calling the shots, Poland’s centre-right...

Facing an impasse from conservatives calling the shots,...

Open seminar on diabetes organised by Health Ministry

On the occasion of World Diabetes Day next Wednesday, the Ministry for Health...

On the occasion of World Diabetes Day next Wednesday, the...

Government buys 80,000 doses of vaccine, 16,000 people vaccinated

Parliamentary secretary Mario Galea urges public to take vaccine against...

Parliamentary secretary Mario Galea urges public to take...

Parents of Down’s kids following US researcher’s ‘memory drug’

Despite the still embryonic stages of the drug, a number of parents from all over the world – including Malta – have contacted doctor asking whether they...

Despite the still embryonic stages of the drug, a number of...

€3.8 million works at Karin Grech Hospital over four years

Over four years, government invested over €1 million in maintenance and over...

Over four years, government invested over €1 million in...