Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "World Health Organisation" produced 83 items.
| 1. Commission urges Russia to reverse import ban | June 2, 2011 |
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Russia's ban on imports of EU vegetables because of E. coli outbreak ‘disproportionate'. |
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| 2. Amflora danger | April 1, 2010 |
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The genetically modified potato risks reducing the efficacy of life-saving medicines. When the European Commission authorised the GM potato Amflora earlier this month, it... | |
| 3. Europe must end the mutilation of its women | January 28, 2010 |
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National efforts to end the practice of female genital mutilation need support at the European level. In a Europe where most have access to the technological marvels of... | |
| 4. Patient choice: Pandora's box? How can patients influence safety and quality standards in healthcare? | May 26, 2009 |
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A European Voice Health-check debate
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| 5. Spain confirms first swine flu case in Europe | April 27, 2009 |
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EU member state experts to meet in Brussels this afternoon to discuss the EU's response. Spain's Health Minister Trinidad Jiménez today confirmed the first case in... | |
| 6. EU governments call for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict | December 31, 2008 |
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Foreign ministers and Middle East Quartet call for immediate end to hostilities; World Health Organisation warns of looming humanitarian disaster. EU governments have... | |
| 7. Plans to reform drugs industry unveiled | December 10, 2008 |
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Efforts to curb counterfeiting form centrepiece of reforms that EU executive hopes will turn Europe into the world's ‘chemist shop'.
The European Commission has... | |
| 8. Europe must back up words with action in Congo | November 20, 2008 |
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As the situation in Congo worsens, the EU must consider reinforcing the UN peacekeeping mission. The last time that the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in the... | |
| 9. New, clearer labels for sunscreen bottles | July 14, 2008 |
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Labelling scheme has been voluntarily adopted by manufacturers.
Holiday-makers heading for the sunshine should find it easier to choose the right sunscreen this summer,... | |
| 10. Killing cancer or making a killing? Alojz Peterle MEP (EPP-ED) | June 5, 2008 |
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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,... | |
| 11. Better education narrows health gap | March 6, 2008 |
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The EU is focusing on the social reasons for health inequalities. IF YOU?travel eastwards on the Underground from Westminster to Canning Town in London's East End, at every... | |
| 12. Turning Europe back on to tap water | February 28, 2008 |
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EU measures to improve water quality have not stopped the public drinking bottled water, writes Eliza Gray. European demand for bottled water is growing all the time.... | |
| 13. HIV/AIDS paves way for tuberculosis | November 29, 2007 |
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The co-infection dimension of HIV/AIDS has been well known since soon after the virus came to light. Tuberculosis (TB) in particular has been associated with HIV/AIDS as an... | |
| 14. Can Europe deal with bioterrorism? | October 31, 2007 |
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An EU green paper on bio-preparedness is attracting attention from across the world. Judith Crosbie reports. The change in the security climate since 11 September 2001 has... | |
| 15. Battle of the bio-tech tuber | October 18, 2007 |
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The European Commission is deeply divided over a proposal to approve a genetically modified (GM) strain of potato named ‘Amflora' engineered by the German chemical giant... | |
| 16. Poor diets and sedentary lifestyles hurt our health | September 20, 2007 |
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The European Commission's directorate-general for health and consumer protection and the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) have teamed up to produce a 30-second... | |
| 17. Maybe the CAP will fit after all | August 30, 2007 |
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This autumn will see another bout of up-to-the-wire wrangling about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). For the fiercely anti-CAP camp, led by the UK, it has... | |
| 18. Climate change hits water supplies hardest | July 5, 2007 |
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“Water is as big an issue as climate change,” according to Sergiy Moroz of the WWF Global Freshwater Programme. He welcomed the green paper on adaptation to climate... | |
| 19. Where's the harm in a drink? | June 14, 2007 |
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The launch last week (7 June) of a European Commission-sponsored Alcohol and Health Forum was welcomed by some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as an important step... | |
| 20. MEPs vet plans to jail counterfeiters | March 15, 2007 |
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MEPs on the European Parliament's legal affairs committee will vote next week (20 March) on politically sensitive proposals to punish people or companies that infringe... | |
