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Michel Ballieu explains how a career that began at Xerox has taken him into cancer research. It is a surprise to find that the man heading ECCO, the European Cancer...

The Commission wants national governments to do more to tackle cancer. European governments must do better on screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal...

Report finds that EU member states carry out fewer than half the targeted screenings that the European Commission has recommended. The European Commission has urged the...

EU food agency says consumers should not be concerned by threat posed by contaminated pork; levels of cancer-inducing dioxin are hundred times lower in beef. If someone...

One example of the difficulties in bring new drugs to market. The European Medicines Agency's explanation of why and how it gave a positive opinion to Velcade, just one...

Researchers are developing increasingly complex treatments for cancer.

Critics warn that EU cancer research funding is badly directed. Cancer no longer carries the death sentence it did two or three decades ago. Of the roughly 160,000 women...

The EU must take co-ordinated action to share knowledge, exchange best practices and encourage progress in therapy. The EU must take co-ordinated action to share knowledge,...

The EU's eastern enlargement exposed huge inequalities in healthcare between new and old member states. The EU's fifth enlargement, which saw 12 new member states join in...

Despite technological improvements to EU countries' healthcare systems, cancer and other diseases will continue to take their toll. Cancer statistics make grim reading....

Powerful pharmaceuticals companies pulling the strings behind the scenes in public policy efforts to target cancer. Powerful pharmaceuticals companies pulling the strings...

Cancer's unnecessary death toll, and the necessity of further restrictions on tobacco.

Robert Madelin talks about DG Sanco's plans. Sosme director-generals can order raids on the offices of corporate rule breakers, others shuffle billions in subsidies, but the...

Critics of EU rules warn that some lotions and potions are still not 100% safe for consumers. Emily Smith reports. A major force behind the drive for EU cosmetics...

Last month the European Commission put out the results of a survey from Eurobarometer about health in the European Union. The study concluded that not enough people were...

François Lamoureux, the former director-general of transport and energy in the Commission who died of cancer in August, is unlikely to be forgotten quickly. Just to...

A memorial service was being held in Madrid's Almudena cathedral today (21 December) to celebrate the life of Loyola de Palacio, the Spanish conservative politician, farm...

It is nearly ten years since the European Commission produced a report on the state of women's health in the European Union, but now Austria, the current holder of the EU...

I find myself this week troubled by a tinge of sympathy for the European Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson. The cause of this discomfort is not any deep insight into the...

MORE than 50% of medicines used to treat children have not been tested for use in this age group, according to the European Commission. To remedy this, the enterprise...