Last week, the European Parliament Environment and Public Health Committee approved common European rules on organ transplants, which should make transplants easier, faster and safer.The creation of a European area…
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Researchers and industrialists from Europe and abroad have clinched EUR 18 million in EU support for their collaboration on projects targeting influenza. In total, 52 research institutes and small and…
EU Employment and Social Affairs Ministers have today adopted a Directive to prevent injuries and infections to healthcare workers from sharp objects such as needle sticks – one of the…
Cancer mortality in Europe has declined at a steady pace over recent years. New figures now published online in the journal Annals of Oncology show a drop of 9% between…
On 22 July the European Commission called on EU Member States to pool their resources and better coordinate research efforts to combat Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The proposals adopted…
EU-wide health data from the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) project is now published on the Commission’s Public Health website. The aim of ECHI data is to enable policy makers…
