Health Care
Latest news, analysis and comment on health policy in Europe and beyond.
Illegal drugs loom over Luxembourg’s election
Citizens fume as narcotics wave crashes into the Grand Duchy.
Sweden’s winter drug stockpiling plan risks backfiring
Harnessing innovation in robotic-assisted surgery
Why dengue in Europe could spell disaster for the rest of the world
Scientists who paved way for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines win Nobel prize
What single market? Why Romanians get new medicines 2 years after Germans
MEP Maria Arena and her son: A joint passion for cannabis
Putting hearts first when it comes to aging healthily
Heart failure is the greatest health risk facing our aging population. Governments can help prevent premature death and ‘add life to our years’ with immediate action and investment in accessible diagnostics.
Why we need to improve heart health in Europe
Despite progress, there is now an increase in the cardiovascular disease burden across all major European countries.
Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s
No money for food? Go to McDonald’s, Karl Nehammer says.
Europe drawing up years-long mRNA COVID vaccines tender
Multiple countries have confirmed interest to start talks but timing is now paramount for winter.
Hungary’s baby-making summit dominated by paranoia, not policy
Culture wars and ethnic grievances took the place of a debate on what really moves birth rates.
Europe must prepare for fentanyl surge, EU home affairs chief says after warning from US’s Blinken
Ylva Johansson’s remarks follow a warning from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that synthetic drugs are on their way.
Beyond forgetfulness: Why we must act on Alzheimer’s disease now
Alzheimer’s disease is a ticking time bomb for individuals, families and health care systems, unless we invest in our future health today.
Reigniting vaccine leadership in the EU
How the EU can reclaim its attractiveness on the global stage.
Hungary’s Orbán calls for less climate panic, more babies
The right-wing leader said ‘Western elites’ were too concerned with carbon quotas and not enough with falling birth rates.
Drug that makes Syrian regime millions trafficked through Europe, report says
The cheap amphetamine-like Captagon pills drive huge funds for Bashar Assad’s war machine.
Von der Leyen accidentally went up against Biden on health — and lost
It was opposites day for the health agenda.
Von der Leyen vows EU strategy to combat drug trafficking
Commission president pledges European ports alliance as key part of narcotics plan.
Supercharged storm wrecks Greece’s breadbasket for years to come
Flooded region of Thessaly produces a quarter of the country’s food.
Europe’s conservative lawmakers are at it again — this time on air pollution
Center-right lawmakers are pushing to significantly water down proposed European guidelines on cleaner air.
MEP mulls special driving licenses for SUVs
Climate campaigners and safety advocates dislike the big cars.
Severe asthma — breaking the cycle of inadequate care
The real cost of severe asthma: Why urgent action is needed to protect patients and reduce the strain on stretched health systems.
The populist right wants you to make more babies. The question is how
When it comes to reversing the continent’s sagging birth rate, governments are shooting blanks.
Children will die unless EU acts on medical equipment rules, warns doctor
Stringent new requirements have forced livesaving devices off the market.
Weight loss drugs: Fake Ozempic and Wegovy surge in Europe
Regulators have limited powers to act.
Labs: the (overlooked) building block of Universal Health Coverage
Universal Health Coverage may be high on the UNGA 78 health agenda, but will leaders back the diagnostics infrastructure that makes it possible?
COVID-19 on the rise in Europe as bloc flies blind into fall and winter
Only a third of countries reported data to the ECDC on hospital admissions.
Troubled Brussels train station to get its own police station amid drugs boom
Better care for narcotics users will also be provided at Midi station.
Defusing the Baltic Sea’s ‘ticking time bomb’
Brussels hopes to speed up efforts to clean up sea-dumped munitions.
Britain rejoins EU’s Horizon science scheme
London talks up rebate as UK rejoins research strand it’s been shut out of since Brexit.
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