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Rewiring pain: The AI-powered solution transforming lives

Alexiei Dingli

For those living with chronic pain, Morpheus is a beacon of hope. It demonstrates that long-term pain management is possible and achievable in a safe, effective, and accessible...

Harm reduction in Malta: A bumpy road ahead | Mark Farrugia

My research study highlighted that the definition and implementation of harm reduction principles and practices in Malta fall short from fulfilling their human rights purpose and...

Stop blaming children for the behaviour of sexual predators

Josanne Cassar

When it comes to young children who have been exposed to sex, we must also be...

When it comes to young children who have been exposed to...

Coronavirus: compliance with controls will fall over the winter holidays

The Conversation

Sheheryar Banuri • In the upcoming holidays we face a different problem: the effects our behaviour has on one another – or what we call social norms

Sheheryar Banuri • In the upcoming holidays we face a...

If cannabis is ‘bad for your health’... what’s prison?

Raphael Vassallo

I can safely say 100% certainty that the prison experience must have caused...

I can safely say 100% certainty that the prison experience...

Evarist Bartolo

We do not have the carrying capacity to take in more irregular migrants and...

We do not have the carrying capacity to take in more...

CAP reform: enemy of the European Green Deal

Ralph Cassar

The new CAP favours huge agro-industrial interests, and so continues to...

The new CAP favours huge agro-industrial interests, and so...

Edwin Vassallo may be a ‘dinosaur’… but he is not quite ‘extinct’ yet

Raphael Vassallo

Perhaps we should thank the likes of Edwin Vassallo for so graphically reminding us that the ‘struggle for equality’ is actually very far...

Perhaps we should thank the likes of Edwin...

Michael Falzon

One cannot forget that until his term expires on January 20, Trump remains the commander-in-chief, whose orders must be obeyed if they’re lawful

One cannot forget that until his term expires on January...

SLAPPs are silencing hundreds of journalists in Europe: we need an EU law

For every journalist or activist threatened with violence in Europe, a hundred more are silenced discreetly by letters sent by law firms, perverting laws meant...

For every journalist or activist threatened with violence...

Saviour Balzan

We have experienced many hypocritical politicians, but none of them beat Jason Azzopardi in magnitude and depth

We have experienced many hypocritical politicians, but none...

No, COVID does not have to steal Christmas

Josanne Cassar

Surely, for just this once, we can all stick to our nuclear family and...

Surely, for just this once, we can all stick to our nuclear...

Raphael Vassallo

What better way than by deliberately engineering the acquittal of the prime suspect in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, only to then turn...

What better way than by deliberately engineering the...

Aaron Farrugia / Miriam Dalli

We cannot ignore the consequential rise in pollution... such reversal is only possible through an ecological transition that recognizes the value of...

We cannot ignore the consequential rise in...

Michael Falzon

But am I the only one worried with the fact that there are people who believe that the press can be asked to spin stories – for a price, of course?

But am I the only one worried with the fact that there are...

It was always about ‘getting rid of Trump’, never about electing Biden...

Raphael Vassallo

How else can such a hopelessly flawed system possibly be expected to end… but in a state of self-perpetuating mediocrity?

How else can such a hopelessly flawed system possibly be...

Why the end of the Trump Presidency is significant for everyone

Josanne Cassar

The way Trump handled the prospect that he was losing was a new low, even for...

The way Trump handled the prospect that he was losing was a...

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander

Saviour Balzan

We need to get serious. If Muscat has made such an allegation, it is something...

We need to get serious. If Muscat has made such an...

Raphael Vassallo

Malta’s entire environmental law is underpinned by a tacit, unspoken rule: ‘any or all of this legislation can be overridden at will, if the...

Malta’s entire environmental law is underpinned...

As the world looks at Poland, women in Malta have it worse

Dr Christopher Barbara: Despite all the negative attention it has attracted,...

Dr Christopher Barbara: Despite all the negative attention...