Whoโ€™s the real health commissioner?

SNEAK PEEK โ€” EU health policy is now split across multiple departments, and MEPs arenโ€™t happy. โ€” Sort your own house out first: MEPs question Hungarian health secretary over presidency plans and countryโ€™s health commissioner role. โ€” Spend less on defense and more on health, WHO chief Tedros told world leaders at the United Nations [โ€ฆ]

The job no one wants: EU health commissioner

Health policy is looking like the poor cousin and is likely to be downgraded this mandate.

EU needs Alzheimerโ€™s plan with concrete measures and deadlines, says EPPโ€™s SANT coordinator [Advocacy Lab Content]

Europe needs a plan to address Alzheimerโ€™s Disease that contains concrete measures, each with its own deadlines, and supported with proper funding, MEP Tomislav Sokol (EPP) told Euractiv.

EHDS is not just an agreement; itโ€™s a promise to patients and researchers, says Vandenbroucke [Advocacy Lab Content]

Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke and MEP Tomislav Sokol have brought Europe’s ambition to establish a European Health Data Space (EHDS) to a pivotal moment, with a provisional agreement empowering patients and researchers.

Eliminating cervical cancer to save womenโ€™s lives

Leading international cervical health experts call on governments and health care authorities to address low and declining cervical cancer screening participation rates.

Snus on the loose: How Swedish chewing tobacco keeps dividing Brussels

Lawmakers can’t agree whether snus is a potent alternative to cigarettes or a back door for Big Tobacco.

European Health Data Space on the Parliamentโ€™s plate

As the European Parliament debates how European health data space should be shaped, EURACTIV talks with the co-rapporteur of the file, Croatian MEP Tomislav Sokol (EPP), touching on primary and secondary use of data, the reasons why parliament supports…

EU Parliament solving riddle of secondary use of data in health data space

As the European Parliament debates how European health data space should be shaped, the co-rapporteur of the file has warned that the agreements regarding the secondary use of data were the hardest to reach.ย