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A spotlight on MPS Austria
Speaking to Health Europa, Michaela Weigl, the president of MPS Austria, discusses the society’s work to support people living with mucopolysaccharidoses and to raise...
Vaccines for animal and human health
Vaccines are understood to be one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine. Here, Health Europa explores how vaccines have benefitted not only humans...
Health Europa Quarterly discusses the latest health trends
Editor Kathryn Washburn introduces the sixth edition of Health Europa Quarterly, which features contributions from Dr Roberta Petrino, president of the European Society for Emergency...
Health Europa Quarterly Issue 06
Health Europa Quarterly issue 06 highlights the 70th anniversary of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), as well as outlining the changes and challenges...
Health management is not rocket science!
Usman Khan, the executive director of the European Health Management Association, assesses the future for today’s European health manager.
An oft-used phrase at the European...
The potential of advanced therapy medicinal products in Europe
Together, the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency are working to bring game-changing advanced therapy medicinal products to the patients who need them.
So-called...
Strategies to improve patient outcomes in kidney transplantation
Professor Luuk Hilbrands, chair of the DESCARTES working group of the ERA-EDTA, discusses the hurdles that remain in kidney transplantation and how they might...
Cross-cutting solutions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Isabel Proaño Gómez, director of policy and communications at the European Federation of Allergies and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations, reflects on how best to...
What sets Italy apart in cell and gene therapies?
Dr Luigi Naldini, the director of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, outlines Italy’s enormous success in the field of cell and...
Suicide prevention: the role of the emergency department
The European Psychiatric Association Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention reflects on the emergency department as a site for suicide risk management and prevention.
The...
Reducing the burden of obesity-related liver disease in children
Professor Deirdre Kelly CBE, of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, discusses what can be done to tackle the particular threat...
The Austrian MPS Society’s Therapy Week – more than just therapy
In July, Health Europa saw first-hand how the Austrian MPS Society’s Therapy Week brings patients and their families together for more than just a...
World Cancer Research Fund: turning research into policy action
Following the publication of the latest worldwide cancer prevention report from World Cancer Research Fund, Dr Giota Mitrou, director of research, discusses the next...
The Safer Pharma campaign to eliminate pharmaceuticals in the environment
Adela Maghear outlines the dangers of pharmaceuticals in the environment and the measures needed to reduce their threat to human and environmental health.
Pharmaceutical pollution...
Property rights for digital assets: the Bitmark revolution
Bitmark is helping people to generate wealth out of the data they produce by recording property rights for digital assets, as Sean Moss-Pultz tells...
Celebrating EU-Israel research and innovation collaboration
Health Europa charts the enormous success of EU-Israel research and innovation collaboration since the association of Israel to the EU framework programmes in 1996.
2016...
The timing of immunotherapy
The Departments of Surgery and Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, explore how immunotherapy can be used to fight against...
The benefits of technology-enabled care
The Rt Hon Professor Paul Burstow, the president of the TEC Services Association, reflects on the potential of technology-enabled care to transform health and...
Thula – Nordic Source Solutions
Thula-Nordic Source Solutions explains how it is taking charge of medicine management through innovative technologies.
Thula-Nordic Source Solutions is a dynamic software product development and consulting...
Understanding the relationship between inflammation and cancer
Recent research is advancing our understanding of the link between acute and chronic inflammation and cancer, as Health Europa explores.
Inflammation plays an important role...