Berlin is a city of wonders. Going through its meticulously clean roads, one could easily be led to believe that a giant artist picked up the most beautiful ingredients coming from nature and classic and modern architecture and after a masterly...

Each day, 10 European citizens die while waiting for a suitable organ transplant. That’s almost 4,000 people on a yearly basis. Moira Mizzi delves deeper into the subject. Christmas is the time for giving as the popular saying goes, even if for...

There isn’t one single person in the world who is capable of doing everything he or she sets his or her mind on. There might be some individuals who think they are, but that is a different matter altogether. Even daily activities which are...

While in Brussels for the European Health Journalist Award ceremony, MOIRA MIZZI finds time to catch up with the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli to get to know more about what he has achieved during the first 10...

Life has an interesting way of colouring our perspectives. We could be experiencing it and looking at it from a certain angle and then a series of closely related happenings around us simply turn our experience very much like our gaze turns while...

The figure-ground phenomenon refers to the cognitive ability to separate different elements in one picture or perspective. Initially introduced by Danish phenomenologist Edgar Rubin (1886-1951) with his famous depiction of the vase interchangeable...

We doctors have to go into statistics even though most of us think it’s the most stone deadly boring subject that ever existed on the face of any planet. Statistics of disease help us in the differential diagnosis of a symptom or a sign and steer us...

Ivan Cameron, son of the British Conservative Party leader, was six when he died last week. His death brought to a sudden and dramatic close a short but intense existence of suffering, frequent hospitalisations and crushed hopes which had hung...

T he residents of Rabat woke up to a very unpleasant site one Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. The beautiful recently embellished public garden was brutally vandalised; lamp posts were uprooted and broken and a bench was also uprooted and...

One of my favourite pastimes as a child was leafing through photo albums. I used to find it immensely intruiging to look at the pictures while comparing the images of that time with the actual present day people and places. It never ceased to...