Clara Bauer
Digital tools to play key role in transition to data-driven diabetic care
Diabetes registries collecting patient data and new digital tools directly used by patients are considered by stakeholders some of the best options to improve the quality of diabetes care ahead of the EU’s health data revolution. About 32.3 million adults...
Health Brief – Human rights violated, access to health neglected: Roma in ‘mental distress’
Lower life expectancy, limited access to health services, and violation of human rights affect the mental health of Roma people living in Europe. NGOs are sounding the alarm about that.
Health Brief: Welcome to the ‘supermarket’
In western Poland, a humanitarian centre for Ukraine is open 24/7. A French association travelled from Paris to bring dozens of donations to this place that everyone here calls the "supermarket".
Health Brief: The House of (health) democracy
While MEPs are busy in Strasbourg with the mid-term renewal of high-level roles in the European Parliament, parties are asking themselves how to give health more room in parliamentary business.
Health Brief: EU policy makes its mark
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to get a tattoo but you’ve always had health concerns about it, you might not need to (th)ink again.
Health Brief, powered by European Diabetes Forum: A merry little (COVID-safe) Christmas
Ah, Christmas. A period full of quality time with your loved ones, eating too much, moving too little and resetting, ready for whatever fun the new year will bring.
Health Brief, powered by PPTA Europe: A not so healthy EU French Presidency
Last week, Emmanuel Macron presented his priorities for the EU French presidency, which kicks off on 1 January 2022. Spoiler alert: health didn’t make the top 3. In fact, it didn’t even make the top 5.
Health Brief, powered by European Diabetes Forum: Time to de-liver
When you think of the leading causes of death and disease in the EU, you would likely think of cancer or something affecting the heart or lungs. You might not think of the liver.
Health Brief, powered by European Diabetes Forum: The parallel (pharma) universe
A ruling by the EU's top court last week reopened a portal to the mysterious world of parallel trade in drugs.
Health Brief: The harsh lesson we learn in Europe
Europe is counting its 22nd month with COVID-19. Despite differences across the bloc with vaccination levels, the EU has one of the highest numbers of people vaccinated across the globe.
Health Brief: European Parliament’s social health club
A new analysis by VoteWatch Europe and the consultancy BCW Brussels has shown who the hottest European lawmakers in town are when it comes to health policy.
Health Brief – Extreme makeover: EU health agencies special
In the wake of the COVID pandemic, the face of EU health institutions is rapidly changing.
Health Brief – Mental health: an ’emergency spreading across the EU’
Health experts and policymakers have called on governments to step up and take the pandemic as a wake-up call to adopt impactful mental health policies, as outlined in a new report.
Health Brief: Cancer. The silent battle continues
The COVID crisis has scrambled the EU’s priorities when it comes to health. But while all eyes have been on COVID-19, European institutions have been carrying on their “silent battle” against an older enemy: cancer.
Health Brief: Booster shots. Not if, but when
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Health Brief, your weekly update on all things healthcare in Europe.
EU plotting ban on internal combustion engine as of 2025: industry
The European Commission's proposed Euro 7 emission rules on cars, vans, trucks and buses would amount to "a ban through the back door" of internal combustion engines as of 2025, if implemented in their current form, industry has said, calling the proposal premature and "completely out of the question".