Ireland seeks ‘multi-stakeholder’ solutions to face winter’s drug shortages on 17/10/23
“Winter season 2022-2023 saw significant medicine shortages, and it is not possible to predict what shortages may occur through winter 2023-2024,” a spokesperson for the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) told Euractiv. Swedish stakeholders ask for revisions of EU’s pharma reform on 17/10/23
Major stakeholders in Sweden welcome the new and modernised European pharmaceutical legislation. However, both the public and private sectors see a great need for improvements and revisions. People with disabilities barely benefit from EU’s action, Court of Auditors finds on 13/10/23
The EU’s action to improve the lives of people with disabilities has made little difference in recent years, as getting a job and fighting poverty remain a struggle, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found. EU rare disease strategy must start at national level, stakeholders say on 12/10/23
National healthcare systems must be integrated into the EU's approach to rare diseases, EU lawmakers and stakeholders urged on Wednesday (11 October), underlining the importance of the European Reference Networks (ERN). French MP puts forth an amendment to put minimum price per unit of alcohol on 12/10/23
Cyrille Isaac-Sibille (MoDem, affiliated with Macron’s party) would like to table an amendment to the 2024 Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) to put a minimum price per unit of alcohol to protect both public health and the wine industry. With... How effective are EU policies in the fight against tobacco? Challenges and opportunities in the fight against smoking in the EU [Promoted content] on 12/10/23
Smoking is the chief cause of preventable cancer and is responsible for a high number of yearly deaths in Europe. Regulatory efforts at EU level in the fight against smoking, based on bans and taxation, are insufficient for people who are not able to quit smoking. New data suggests that e-cigarettes play a key role in smoking cessation even more than conventional pharmaceutical methods. To this end, it is important to make a distinction between measures that contain smoking initiation and policies to help heavy smokers. €1.1bn fund announced to eradicate polio and strengthen global health systems on 11/10/23
The European Commission, European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a €1.1 billion “financing partnership” which seeks to eradicate polio and support global access to health services and innovations. Blood cancer patients’ associations call for more data, access to innovative treatments on 11/10/23
Patients diagnosed with haematological cancers suffer from a lack of data and complex access to clinical trials which in turn impact their quality of life, patients' associations have argued. Health policy in the Council and a touch on mental health on 11/10/23
An editorial word: Health policy in the Council and a touch on mental health By Clara Bauer-Babef, Giedrė Peseckytė, Marta Iraola “It is okay not to be okay” would be a quote of the week if we were to pick... Bulgarian doctors sound alarm as paediatric health care collapses on 11/10/23
Paediatric health care in Bulgaria is in a critical situation due to a lack of funding and personnel, while the authorities’ persistence on hospitalisations over outpatient care has frustrated paediatricians.
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