Draghi report on Europe’s competitiveness falls short
While well-received in Brussels, the question of what exactly the common debt should finance, and how it would foster innovation, has been sidelined.
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Mission Possible: Working together to reshape the future of cancer care
Q&A with Greg Rossi, Senior VP, Head of Oncology Europe and Canada at AstraZeneca.
Establishing criteria for unmet medical needs: let’s not leave people living with chronic diseases behind
The narrow definition of unmet medical need used in the General Pharmaceutical Legislation may hinder rather than help efforts to find new treatments.
Who’s the real health commissioner?
SNEAK PEEK — EU health policy is now split across multiple departments, and MEPs aren’t happy. — Sort your own house out first: MEPs question Hungarian health secretary over presidency plans and country’s health commissioner role. — Spend less on defense and more on health, WHO chief Tedros told world leaders at the United Nations […]
Solid science in Europe: a farewell song?
Maintaining the highest standards is the only avenue to strengthen the EU health sector.
Act now to ensure health policies address the burgeoning demands of Myopia
One of the world’s leading vision impairments, myopia’s prevalence is set to increase, with vast implications for country’s budgets and their people’s health and well-being.
Finnish horse enthusiast is an EU tech front-runner
Henna Virkkunen is well placed to nab a key European Commission post on tech or innovation.
Zelenskyy’s consolidation of power weakens Ukraine’s resilience
The war has done nothing to still the president’s populist impatience with the complexities of governing, and it’s playing against the country’s strengths.
France to invest €170 million in preventive healthcare innovations
France’s Health Innovation Agency (Agence de l’innovation en santé, AIS) plans to invest €170 million in innovations to improve preventative healthcare in eight fields, including children’s health, mental health, chronic and rare diseases.
Elon Musk shares fake news claiming UK rioters will be sent to ‘detainment camps’
The X owner pushed a made-up headline from a far-right British party on his platform, before deleting it.
Ukraine war briefing: Backlash at freed Russians calling for eased sanctions and negotiation
Dissidents released by western efforts backtrack – ‘Ukraine must win’; Kyiv targeted with missiles and drones. What we know on day 895 Ukrainians have reacted angrily to calls by freed Russian political prisoners to ease sanctions that affect ordinary …
EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities – uncovering the major impacts of a 15-year experiment
The EIT’s first three industry-focused networks are now set to ‘graduate’. What have they achieved and are they ready to operate independently?
The call for an EU Action Plan for rare diseases
Driving excellence: A new EU Action Plan for rare diseases that drives innovation, creativity and competitiveness can position the EU as a leader on the global stage.
Has the left jumped the shark?
Down in the polls, battered in elections and in many cases even deserted by the young, the progressive camp is bleeding support, while the right is on the rise.
A life in quotes: Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and culture in poetry and fiction, has died aged 88. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his lifeIsmail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies …
Combination therapies offer hope to cancer patients – but we need to act now to ensure access
There is an urgent need to consider solutions to overcome complex access challenges to combination therapies — payers, policymakers and industry leaders must work together and act now to ensure access.
The Time is Now: Transforming Care in Lupus Together
An interview moderated by Robert Fogel, Vice President, Global Medical Affairs, Respiratory & Immunology, AstraZeneca, with Professor Marta Mosca and Patrick Wildman
Chinese exports threaten Europe even more than the US
Biden is right to heed working class voters in Pennsylvania. The Continent, which has even more to lose from a second China shock, better start listening to its workers too.
Future of health: Time for Europe to connect the dots [Promoted content]
Innovation can deliver patient-centric, digitally advanced, resilient and sustainable healthcare ‒ a new video series shows what’s possible if the EU seizes this opportunity for transformation.