**Can Kinnie Cravings Be a Canary in the Coal Mine? What Maltese Doctors Say About Food Urges and Cancer** It’s 3 a.m. in Birkirkara and Rita Camilleri, 57, is elbow-deep in a jar of bigilla, spooning the peppery bean paste onto yesterday’s ftira. Three weeks later she’s diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not….
**Parliament’s health chair cites role clash for calling no meetings in two years** For 24 straight months, while Maltese families debated COVID boosters, queued for cancer-screening delays and watched medical-staff strikes unfold on TV, the parliamentary committee that is supposed to scrutinise all things health has not met once. The reason, according to its own…
A 61-year-old man is fighting for his life after a fierce blaze tore through a ground-floor maisonette in Pembroke in the early hours of Monday, sending shock-waves through a neighbourhood more accustomed to the clink of coffee cups than the wail of sirens. The fire broke out at 3:15 a.m. on Triq il-Patrijiet, a quiet…
Motorcyclist Fighting for Life After Żebbuġ Crash Re-ignites Island-Wide Safety Debate A 27-year-old rider from Siġġiewi is in critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital after losing control of his Honda CBR on the winding stretch of Triq il-Kbira, Żebbuġ, just after 6 a.m. yesterday. The impact, which scattered debris across the 17th-century village core, has…
A pall of worry settled over the usually bustling streets of Luqa yesterday afternoon when a 28-year-old motorcyclist from Qormi was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital in critical condition following a collision with a delivery van. The crash, which occurred at the notorious Triq Ħal Farruġ roundabout shortly after 3 p.m., forced police to shut…
**Myth Debunked: ALS Progresses the Same Way in Everyone – A Maltese Reality Check** For years, the Maltese community has quietly battled the shadows cast by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that strips away muscle control, speech, and eventually breath. Yet one stubborn myth has persisted even among local caregivers and patients gathered…
New watchdog on the block: Malta unveils patient-safety squad Floriana – In a small country where a single medical error can ricochet from one village feast to the next, the government has finally pulled together a dedicated committee to turn Malta’s first-ever Patient Safety Strategy from glossy PDF into day-to-day reality. Announced on Monday at…
