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Tumour-related immunosuppression and treating persistent bacterial infections

Tumour-related immunosuppression and treating persistent bacterial infections

Dr Maija Hollmén at the University of Turku highlights the possibility of re-purposing macrophage stimulating cancer drugs to treat persistent bacterial infections. Some bacterial infections...
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Want to know the latest in vaccines for animal diseases?

The development of new and better vaccines holds enormous promise in efforts to tackle a range of animal diseases, from post-weaning diarrhoea to deadly...
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Rare diseases in the Finnish landscape

Health Europa introduces the New Modalities Ecosystem, which will exploit Finnish expertise to deliver new treatments and technologies for rare diseases. The New Modalities Ecosystem...
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A spotlight on the lymphatic system

Health Europa takes a closer look at illnesses related to the lymphatic system and the role of the European Society of Lymphology. The lymphatic system...
Cities Changing Diabetes: a global fight against urban diabetes

Cities Changing Diabetes: a global fight against urban diabetes

Cities Changing Diabetes brings together businesses, researchers, policymakers and urban planners to tackle the worrying rise of diabetes and obesity in cities – the...
Reducing use of Medicines in Agriculture

Reducing use of medicines in agriculture

Gwyn Jones, chairman of RUMA, talks reducing unnecessary use of antimicrobials and medicines in agriculture and their dissemination into the environment. Chairman of the Responsible...
Therapies for recombination-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency

Therapies for recombination-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency

Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, is developing stem cell-based gene therapy for recombination-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency. Leiden University Medical Center is the co-ordinating partner for...
Safeguarding patient access to medical cannabis in Canada

Safeguarding patient access to medical cannabis in Canada

James O’Hara, the president and CEO of Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, considers the implications of ‘Legalisation Day’ for medical cannabis patients...
MyHealthMyData: towards smarter, safer data sharing

MyHealthMyData: towards smarter, safer data sharing

Anna Rizzo explains how the MyHealthMyData project will enable secure data sharing among hospitals, public and private research centres, and citizens. MyHealthMyData is an EU-funded...
Available on prescription? The complicated picture of medical cannabis in the UK

Available on prescription? The complicated picture of medical cannabis in the UK

It is doctors’ conservatism and not government regulations that is holding back patient access to medical cannabis in the UK, says Professor Mike Barnes. In...
Can we end tuberculosis?

Can we end tuberculosis?

Following from the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on TB, Yuliya Chorna, of TB Europe Coalition, reflects on the global movement to end tuberculosis. The first...
Hey Siri – what does the future hold for social care technology?

Hey Siri – what does the future hold for social care technology?

The CEO of TEC Services Association, Alyson Scurfield, talks of the development of social care technology and what benefits this can bring. Alyson Scurfield, of...
Leprosy: surely it was eliminated?

Leprosy: surely it was eliminated?

In light of World Leprosy Day, Geoff Prescott, the chief executive of international charity Lepra, talks us through the world of leprosy. Geoff Prescott reflects...
Learning from the Estonian e-health system

Learning from the Estonian e-health system

Estonia’s Minister of Health and Labour Riina Sikkut tells Health Europa what we can learn from the Estonian e-health system. The Estonian e-health system is...
Becoming reality – mucopolysaccharide storage diseases and adulthood

Becoming reality – mucopolysaccharide storage diseases and adulthood

Susanne Gerit Kircher, of the Medical University of Vienna, explains why more resources and effort must be put into understanding mucopolysaccharide storage diseases in...
It’s time for a new Europe-wide strategy on prostate cancer

It’s time for a new Europe-wide strategy on prostate cancer

Europa Uomo chairman André Deschamps sets out the need for an improved approach to prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. 30 million men in Europe are...
A call to action for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

A call to action for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The EU-IPFF sets out a series of recommendations to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes of people living with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
The World Mosquito Program: eliminating mosquito-borne diseases

The World Mosquito Program: eliminating mosquito-borne diseases

The World Mosquito Program is an indispensable tool in the global effort to eliminate infectious diseases. Scott O’Neill tells Health Europa more. What if we...
Colorectal cancer and colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer and colonoscopy

Jolanta Gore-Booth, the CEO of Digestive Cancers Europe, discusses the value of colonoscopy in diagnosing and preventing colorectal cancer. In a recent survey by specialist...
Artificial intelligence in healthcare – has there been a misdiagnosis of the benefits?

Artificial intelligence in healthcare – has there been a misdiagnosis of the benefits?

In regards to artificial intelligence in healthcare, F5 Networks’ Ralf Sydekum asks: Can human doctors ever really be replaced by AI-enabled apps? Looking further into...

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