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Towards outcomes-based healthcare: the EFPIA vision
What is outcomes-based healthcare and how can we achieve it in Europe? Thomas Allvin, executive director of strategy and healthcare at the European Federation...
Increased safety in treatment of urethra strictures, thanks to tissue engineering
Biotechnology saves patients from excision of large pieces of native oral mucosa transplants for the plastic reconstruction of morbidly constricted urethras.
About one percent of...
How is MPS Austria improving understanding of mucopolysaccharidoses?
Professor Dr Dr Susanne Gerit Kircher discusses her work alongside the Austrian MPS Society towards a better understanding of mucopolysaccharidoses.
Speaking to Health Europa during...
Are online consultations the future of primary care?
Dan Worman, the CEO of Refero, an online engagement provider to the health and social care market, argues that disruptive rather than destabilising online...
How is the EU tackling neurodegenerative diseases?
Health Europa investigates the work of the EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research, the largest global research initiative aimed at tackling the challenge...
The developing role of hospital pharmacists
Joan Peppard, the immediate past president of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, discusses the evolution of the hospital pharmacy specialist.
The prescribing of medication...
Canada’s response to an ageing population: the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
The three principal investigators on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, Drs Raina, Wolfson and Kirkland, discuss their approach to the design of Canada’s...
An overview of the Neurotech Investing and Partnering Conference
Health Europa shines a spotlight on the 13th annual Neurotech Investing and Partnering Conference, which took place in Boston, USA, in May.
The 21st Century...
Seeing is believing: the need for in vivo imaging in cell therapies
Dr Mangala Srinivas, from the Multiscale Imaging Lab, discusses some of the challenges facing cell therapies and how they might be overcome.
Cell therapy’ –...
Highlights of the 2018 European Association of Urology Congress
Health Europa showcases some of the breakthrough research to have emerged from the 2018 European Association of Urology Congress.
The Netherlands-based European Association of Urology...
The past, present and future of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research
Dr Riks Maas and Professor Jeroen Kortekaas discuss the pioneering work of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research in the fields of viral vaccine development and animal...
How should we judge the NHS at 70?
The Health Foundation’s Dr Jennifer Dixon reflects on the myriad challenges facing the NHS as the pioneering healthcare service turns 70.
The NHS was founded...
World Vaccine Congress Europe 2018
The World Vaccine Congress Europe is the place to be for the latest news and developments in vaccine research – from antimicrobial resistance to...
The burden of chronic digestive diseases
UEG’s Professor Markus Peck considers how Europe can rise to the challenge of chronic digestive diseases, following on from the launch of the MEP...
The challenges of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The EU-IPFF is working to improve outcomes and promote a greater quality of life for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a devastating chronic disease...
Bar-Ilan University: a habitat for interdisciplinary science
Professor Shulamit Michaeli presents Bar-Ilan University, a Tel Aviv-based university boasting big ambitions, unparalleled achievements, and ever-increasing academic prowess.
Bar-Ilan University (BIU), located in the...
Make Patients Smile: the MPS Austria Therapy Week mission
Continuing its coverage of the MPS Austria Therapy Week, Health Europa speaks to childcare organiser Anna Prähofer about how the event has evolved since...
Neuroscience Trials Australia – leading the way in clinical trials
Why Australia is undoubtably the place to be for conducting clinical trials in the neuroscience space.
Neuroscience Trials Australia is an Australian-based, niche, not-for-profit contract...
European health systems: challenges and opportunities
Safeguarding health in Europe is pivotal to all European citizens – to state the obvious. We live, however, in a time when public health...
Breaking tolerance: improving cancer immunotherapy
The group of Dr Maija Hollmén at Turku University, Finland, attempts to make cold tumours hot by targeting the tumour-supporting functions of innate immune...