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Different approaches are needed to deal with an ageing population. The Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe (BioMed Alliance) warmly welcomes the European Commission's...

Aim is to avoid confused national response. The European Commission is expected to adopt today (8 December) measures to co-ordinate the European response to health crises...

Member states want Commission to step up anti-smoking effort. The European Commission should do more to get people to stop smoking in a bid to reduce health inequalities...

Addressing risk factors through simple lifestyle interventions would result in a significant reduction in the prevalence of chronic diseases. In your special report on...

The EU should apply tight standards in the mining sector. In your special report on Europe's environmental footprint, you looked at two ways in which Europe's footprint...

How HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality are linked. We were delighted to see European Voice giving space to Sophia in ‘t Veld's article on maternal mortality (“The next...

Opposition to more time off for parents amid fear of harm to employment National governments will next week dismiss a plan from the European Parliament to extend the basic...

It is time that Israel took its boot off Gaza's windpipe. It is easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometres long and...

The regional director of the World Health Organization on why she wants to strengthen ties with the EU and about the lessons she took from her time leading the EU's efforts...

Marc Sprenger has been appointed director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Sprenger, who takes up the post on 1 May, is currently...

The soft-drinks industry has heeded calls to limit advertising targeted at children and intends to extend that voluntary ban online. But self-regulation is now coming under...

The EU is keen to do more to encourage people to take exercise. Anyone who has spent a lot of time slumped in an armchair during the past few years may have dozed through...

Haiti's plight is a reminder of the international community's wider and longer-term responsibilities to the country. The disaster in Haiti shows once again something that...

Starved of resources, developing countries have struggled to put in place the infrastructure necessary to deliver healthcare. In 1970 the rich world promised a dramatic...

Huge amounts of time and money have been spent trying to tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, with mixed results. Since 1996, the number of new HIV infections...

Developing countries are struggling to hold on to their skilled healthcare workers. Healthcare workers have been among the most welcome migrant groups coming into the EU,...

There have been accusations that the EU is protecting big pharma and preventing access to essential medicines for people in developing countries. Despite their repeated...

Spain's finance minister has yet to show if she can escape from her boss's shadow. The victims of the financial crisis have included some of Europe's finance ministers. One...

Healthcare is a particular case in which migration poses serious problems for the developing world. Tobias Billström and Gunilla Carlsson, respectively Sweden's justice...

The Commission wants to close the the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor Europeans. The European Commission is is for the first time planning action aimed at...