Category: Health and Wellbeing
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Critical Medicines Act Heads for Final Adoption This Autumn
Strasbourg: The European Union edged its critical medicines law toward the finish line this summer,…
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West Nile Virus Spreads Faster as Europe’s Summer Heats Up
Thessaloniki: The West Nile virus is moving through Europe earlier and across more ground than…
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Twelve New Medicines Clear Europe’s Regulator in One Sitting
Amsterdam: Europe’s medicines regulator has cleared a dozen new treatments in a single round, among…
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Hotter Summers Push Europe’s Mosquito Disease Risk Ever Higher
Hotter, longer summers across Europe have stopped being merely uncomfortable and started turning dangerous, and…
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Eye Implant and Cholesterol Pills Clear Europe’s Drug Review
Amsterdam: Europe’s drug regulator has waved through a fresh batch of medicines, including a refillable…
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Synthetic Drug Precursors Draw Nine New EU Chemical Controls
Hamburg: The chemicals that never make headlines are the ones now worrying Europe’s drug investigators…
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Europe Moves to Make Its Own Antibiotics Again
Brussels: Europe has decided that it can no longer treat the supply of critical medicines…
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Health Data Prepares to Cross Borders Under New EU Rules
Helsinki: Few countries move a patient’s records between clinics as smoothly as Finland. Soon every…
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Critical Medicines Act Moves to Reshore Europe’s Drug Supply
Brussels: The European Union is closing in on new rules to protect its supply of…
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Twelve Medicines Win Europe’s Green Light for Market Approval
Twelve new medicines cleared Europe’s most influential scientific panel this month, moving patients a step…
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Refillable Eye Implant Wins Europe’s First Approval of Its Kind
Utrecht: For patients losing their sight to a common eye disease, Europe’s medicines regulator opened…
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Europe Finalises Its Biggest Medicines Reform in a Generation
Cork: In the pharmaceutical plants that ring Ireland’s southern coast, managers have spent months reading…
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Why Europe Is Now Building Its Own Critical Medicines Supply
Brussels: The European Union is moving the Critical Medicines Act toward final adoption this summer,…
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Why Critical Medicines Are Coming Home to Europe
Brussels: Europe has spent years watching pharmacies ration antibiotics, insulin and painkillers whenever a factory…
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Three New Cholesterol Drugs Clear Europe’s Medicines Review
Amsterdam: Europe’s medicines regulator has cleared a wave of new treatments for the region’s most…
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Home-Grown Drugs Move a Step Closer as the Medicines Act Advances
Madrid: Europe keeps running short of the drugs its patients need most, and lawmakers are…
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Regulator Backs First Refillable Eye Implant for Wet AMD
A refillable device that releases medicine continuously inside the eye has cleared its most important…
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Critical medicines law hands the EMA its biggest supply audit
Cork: The pharmacies and hospital wards that ran short of antibiotics and painkillers through recent…
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Europe’s Health Data Space Races the Clock to 2029
Tallinn: A traveller who falls ill in Lisbon should one day pull up a prescription…
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Vaping Surge Pushes the EU to Rewrite Its Tobacco Rules
Bucharest: Walk past any secondary school in Romania at closing time and the evidence drifts…
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Cholesterol Drugs Win a Green Light From EU Regulators
Rome: Cardiologists treating Italy’s ageing patients have a fresh set of tools on the horizon…
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Fresh Medicine Approvals Include Europe’s First Refillable Eye Implant
Amsterdam: A quiet meeting room decides which treatments Europe’s patients will reach next, and this…
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Critical Medicines Act Moves to Shore Up EU Drug Supply
The Critical Medicines Act, the EU’s answer to years of shortages of antibiotics, insulin and…
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RSV Vaccine Deal Shields Europe Before Winter Returns
Respiratory season is coming, and the Union wants its shelves stocked. The European Commission has…