Perhaps it is one of the reasons - and a key reason at that - why so many people fall ill around Christmas day and New Year, when we're all supposed to be enjoying ourselves. The so-called festive...

Malta’s health status is good when compared to the EU average, the World Health Organisations Regional Director for Europe said today.  Addressing a press conference with the Parliamentary...

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Few of us would argue with Charles Dickens' famous words. Laughter...

Multiple Sclerosis patients are now being supplied with the new pen injection, The Malta Independent has learnt. The injections also fall under the Pharmacy of Your Choice (POYC) scheme. The pen...

CareMalta, Malta's leading healthcare providers, celebrated ability during a business breakfast meeting held on 4 December at the Diamond at The Landmark, Qormi. The theme of the meeting was...

As health officials struggle to contain the world's biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, their efforts are being complicated by another problem: bad data. Having accurate numbers about an...

More women are learning their breasts are so dense that it's more difficult for mammograms to spot cancer. But new research suggests automatically giving them an extra test isn't necessarily the...

Reading about Harry Potter's adventures learning to fly his broomstick activates some of the same regions in the brain we use to perceive real people's actions and intentions. In a novel study,...

A new government report counts hundreds of times U.S. doctors and hospitals raised false alarms about possible Ebola cases, finding that fewer than one in five warranted even additional...

Cleveland Clinic surgeons have replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident, the hospital announced Tuesday. The operation in late September was the...