France's right-leaning Senate approving a bill enshrining the right to abortion in the country's Constitution - after the National Assembly did the same at the end of January - is a defeat for the far-right and the pro-life movement, Camille Butin of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) told Euractiv in an interview.
As Ukraine enters its third year of war, the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlighted the importance of continuing to provide medical and social support to refugees and called for a strong political commitment from the EU.
The Belgian EU presidency is working to lay a foundation for a future EU health workforce strategy and aims to ramp up action, in contrast to the limited Council conclusions on the same topic in 2010.
While December's political agreement on the AI Act could deliver a competitive edge for Europe, commercial AI consolidation risks widening the EU’s substantial regional innovation divide.
Extended reality has the potential to revolutionise the visualisation and planning of surgeries, medical experts already working with such tools told Euractiv in an interview.
As EU Ministers of Health meet on 30 November in Brussels with the Open Strategic Autonomy in the field of health at the top of the agenda, talks are expected to focus on medicines shortages.
EU countries need to see biomarker testing - an innovative form of cancer diagnostics - as an investment and address the current lack of knowledge about its benefits, the head of Cancer Patients Europe told Euractiv.
More and more innovative drugs and biomarkers for cancer are being developed, which is why the coordinator of the OncoLAB Advisory Board, Dr. Ana Rodríguez Cala, assures that "we need to hurry up" to introduce the new treatments into the …
The COVID-19 pandemic and monkeypox outbreak of recent years underlined the need for better preparedness and monitoring, from a global as well as EU perspective, Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) told Euractiv. Since …
The European Commission's proposed pharmaceutical strategy leaves it to the countries to decide whether drugs' package leaflet is in paper format electronic, or both. However, having only electronic leaflets might put patients' safety at risk, Luxembourgish MEP Tilly Metz has warned.
Climate change is a global challenge and a problem for all, “but it's true that patients with respiratory diseases are particularly affected," the vice president of the European Federation of Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Patients Association (EFA) told Euractiv.
Read this article also in Romanian. Member states need to take the lead in addressing healthcare labour shortages, and the EU needs to establish monitoring and funding schemes as part of a common European response, global health policy …
The European Commission’s actions on health are just a first step, as they need to be followed by increasing the collaboration of the member states in the health field, Vytenis Andriukaitis told EURACTIV in an interview.
French President Emmanuel Macron presented on Tuesday (13 September) a plan for a six-month citizen consultation on euthanasia, with stakeholders confident he is ready to move forward on the issue.
Despite an exceptional unity of intent during the pandemic, the revision of the bloc's pharmaceutical legislation could suffer a bump between the EU's vision for health and this is still conceived at the national level, according to the CEO of a pharma company.
Cancer screening, negotiations on long-term COVID-19 vaccine contracts, the European Health Data Space (but not all of it), and the care of Ukrainians will be the main priorities of the Czech presidency when it comes to health, a Czech minister told EURACTIV.com in an exclusive interview.
The debate on climate change’s impact on health should be broadened, according to socialist MEP Sara Cerdas, as health costs for society if we do not act will be unimaginable. Sara Cerdas is a socialist MEP member of the European Parliament's …
Citizens should be the primary target when it comes to health data and the uptake of personalised medicines, as the more they are involved, the greater benefits our healthcare systems will have, said health expert Gianni D'Errico.
EU disability ministers are meeting in Paris on Wednesday (9 March) to take stock of the EU's disability strategy and exchange best practices. EURACTIV France spoke to the French secretary of state in charge of people with disabilities who initiated the meeting within the French EU Council presidency framework.
Ensuring that all people diagnosed with diabetes have access to equitable, comprehensive, affordable and quality management cannot be done without the use of data, according to a World Health Organisation expert.
In a wide-ranging interview, the Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov discussed Afghanistan, the ‘Crimea Platform’, carbon border tax, COVID and vaccines, and the new political season.
Earlier this month, Rebecca Guntern and Kees Roks participated in #EUnite week, a series of conversations focused on unlocking the future of European healthcare.
The COVID pandemic has been a wakeup call on the need to share healthcare data in a commonly usable format. The European Health Data Space would boost health research and underpin the development of personalized medical treatments, says Padraic Ward.
The world needs to rethink intellectual property rights to get ready for the next pandemic and Europe has to do its part as a constructive partner at the negotiating table, Belgian socialist MEP Kathleen Van Brempt told EURACTIV in an interview.
