Health ministers have just adopted a 'general approach' on Biotech Directive. However, some countries expressed concern with expediting procedures on genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs), views almost entirely +ve on organ transplantation. #EPSCO www.vitalsigns.news/eu-health-mi...

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Inside EU Health: 💶 @ecdc.europa.eu chief warns health threats require more resources 🥼 EU vote on workforce crisis 🦠 @who.int has only 35% of the funds it needs for its Ebola response 📈 European semester recommendations target more resilient health systems www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

The report, led by MEPs Loucas Fourlas (EPP, Cyprus) and Ruggero Razza (ECR, Italy), warns that the European Union could face a shortfall of more than four million health and care workers by 2030 if decisive measures are not taken. www.vitalsigns.news/health-secto...

"More tasks mean we need more staff and more expertise in the centre to cover these tasks,” Pamela Rendi-Wagner @ecdc.europa.eu www.vitalsigns.news/ecdc-chief-w...

Two NGOs @justtreatment.org and @globaljusticenow.bsky.social are challenging the December deal reached between the UK and the US to secure 0% tariffs on UK medicine exports. www.vitalsigns.news/ngos-challen...

Inside EU Health: 🦠 Ebola declared PHEIC; 👦 WHO warns nicotine pouches risk hooking a new generation; 🪖 EuropaBio ups efforts on biosecurity; 🏛️ World Health Assembly kicks off; 🛳️ EU activates crisis response mechanism to monitor hantavirus outbreak www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing to contain a new Ebola outbreak #Ebola #AfricaCDC #DRC #WHO #ECDC www.vitalsigns.news/drc-faces-fr...

@who.int warns nicotine pouches risk hooking a new generation #NicotinePouches #WHO #FTCT #FrameworkConventionOnTobaccoControl #TobaccoProductsDirective #TobaccoAdvertisingDirective #TobaccoFreeInitiative www.vitalsigns.news/who-warns-ni...

🦠 EU activates crisis response mechanism to monitor #hantavirus outbreak #Cy2026eu www.vitalsigns.news/eu-activates...

Inside EU Health: 💉 💊 Generic makers appeal to fix tax on treatment 🏭 📈 Pharmaceutical exports supported 926 000 EU jobs #Generics #Biosimilars #UWTD #UrbanWastewaterTreatmentDirective #UWWTD #PharmaceuticalExports #Pharmaceuticals #EUTrade www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Medicines for Europe announced its decision to challenge the Court of First Instance's decision that it lacked legal standing to challenge the #UrbanWastewaterTreatmentDirective #UWWTD. www.vitalsigns.news/generics-mak...

Inside EU Health: 🧔‍♂️ 🧔‍♀️ @ukbiobank.ac.uk suspends access following Alibaba revelations 🌤️ 💻 France chooses ‘sovereign’ cloud for health data @scaleway.com 🧬 💊 @ema.europa.eu recommends five new medicines, including a first-in-class small interfering RNA treatment www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health 🚬 🌬️ UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill clears final hurdle 💊 👦 Novo Nordisk announces positive results for GLP-1s pill phase 3 trial for young people with type 2 diabetes 👩‍🍼 👨‍🍼 Maternity and paternity leave across the EU-27 www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

The Parliament's Public Health Committee have adopted @catarinamartins.bsky.social report addressing gender inequalities in health. Among much else, demands that research gaps are closed, the redesign of medial curricula and much more

Inside EU Health: 🫂 European Patients'​ Forum welcomes MEP support to restore funding for health NGOs 🚧 Europe’s East-West healthcare divide 🔴⚪🟢 From viral victory dance to cabinet role, Hegedűs named as new Hungarian health minister www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 💉ECDC underscores advances in HPV vaccination for European Immunisation Week; 👨‍🦳👩‍🦳Europe’s demographic challenge will likely hit healthcare; 💂‍♂️UK COVID-19 Report: Vaccines and therapeutics www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 👨‍💼 Várhelyi investigation 💉 ‘Let me be very clear, there will be no compromise on safety’ Várhelyi tells MEPs #MedicalDevices #InVitroDiagnosticDevices 🦀 Voiculescu calls for greater accountability in Europe’s cancer plan #Cancer www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

European Commission Spokesperson on Administration, Balazs Ujvari, confirmed today that there has been progress in the investigation into Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHmv...

Inside EU Health: 💄 @cancerleagues.bsky.social urge MEPs to reject weaker cosmetic safety rules; 📈 EU pharmaceutical exports hits record high; 💻 #EHDS #EuropeanHealthDataSpace consultations #Cancer #ChemicalsOmnibus #CosmeticProductsRegulation www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

💄 🧴 @cancerleagues.bsky.social urge MEPs to reject weaker cosmetic safety rules proposed as part of the 'Chemicals Omnibus', covering a wide range of personal care products. #Cancer #ChemicalsOmnibus #CosmeticProductsRegulation #ITRE #ENVI #SANT www.vitalsigns.news/cancer-leagu...

Inside EU Health: 👨‍💼 Fallout for Várhelyi from Hungarian elections? 🛂 US trade report calls for greater access to EU pharma mkt 🦠 LongCOVID could cost €115 billion/year 🧓 40% of 65+ consider themselves healthy 🚬 EU evaluation of gaps in tobacco and nicotine rules www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

MEP Vlad Voiculescu is calling for a “navigator” mechanism, to help families seeking treatment in another EU state. 🚸 He is proposing a dedicated person to guide a family through every step of the process. www.vitalsigns.news/eu-law-promi...

⚫ 🔴 🟡 Germany’s Health Finance Commission propose 66 measures that could reshape the country’s statutory health insurance system and spark difficult political trade-offs. 💊 🚬 🍺 Proposals range from cutting funding for treatments to higher taxes on 🚬 , 🍺 and🥤 www.vitalsigns.news/germany-sets...

Inside EU Health: 5️⃣ 💊 #EMA recommends 5 new medicines for approval; 🔴 💉 #MSF ❌ access to #Gilead HIV-prevention drug; 💶 👩‍🔬 Europe invests €244 million to fast-track next-generation treatments for deadly infections #HaDEA; 🦠 ➡️ #WHO extend negotiations on #PABS www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

“That this drug’s development was supported by public funding - and through [...] clinical trials, [...] in countries now excluded from affordable access - makes the current restrictions even more unconscionable.” #MSF #Gilead #Lenacapavir #HIV #PrEP www.vitalsigns.news/access-denie...

Inside EU Health 💉 🩺 European Chemicals Agency announces support for qualified restrictions on PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ 📃 ✅ Parliament gives conditional approval of EU/US trade deal 1️⃣ ☠️ Eurostat Europe’s one million avoidable deaths www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

💉 🩺 ECHA’s scientific committees back an EU-wide restriction on PFAS, warning of serious health and environmental risks while allowing limited, controlled exemptions www.vitalsigns.news/echa-announc...

Inside EU Health: 🚑 ⚠️ MEPs warn on preparedness 🐔 🤒 First human case of A(H9N2) in EU 🧒 📃 EMA consults on paediatric cancer drug dev 👩‍⚕️ 🤖 Doctors reject ‘move fast and break things’ AI 😷 💉 Major study finds no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🤖 👩‍🔬 #EUAIAct changes risking patient safety? 💉 🧤 EU extends ‘well-established technologies’ under #MedicalDevices law 📃 🧪 Med tech among top ten European patent fields @epo.org 🏡 👨‍👩‍👦 Ireland to make #RightToBeForgotten law for cancer survivors www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🦠 🫁 EU/EEA falls short on #TB detection as one in five cases go unnoticed 🦌 🌲 #LymeDisease vaccine shows promising results in late-stage trial 🔬 👩‍🔬 #Roche announces €1.5 billion investment in its Swiss base #Valneva #Pfizer www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) new report shows that Europe needs to do more to reach 2030 targets. #Tuberculosis #WorldTuberculosisDay #ECDC #WHO www.vitalsigns.news/eu-eea-falls...

The Pharma Package, glided through the SANT committee yesterday, over to Council and a vote - all going well - in the second plenary of October.

Inside EU Health: 💊 📂 CMA edges forward ❤️ ⚰️ Circulatory diseases are responsible for one-third of deaths in the EU 🦠 🧓 ECDC guidance on RSV vaccines in 2027 🤖 🥼 Roche scales AI ✅ 🥼 AstraZeneca gastric cancer drug approved 1️⃣ 💊 Servier single-pill formulation www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 💊 💉 Entrenched positions mark second critical medicines trilogue; 📋 💊 long and winding road to Pharma Package implementation - electronic product information implementation roadmap; 🦟 💉 EMA updates safety information on chikungunya vaccine www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🦠 🛌 Report warns of 'worryingly thin' antimicrobial treatments pipeline; 💻 🛑 New EU AI tool aims to transform food safety response; 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 BioNTech co-founders will leave to focus on next-generation mRNA innovations www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

📉 🧑‍🔬 Report warns of 'worryingly thin' antimicrobial treatments pipeline 💊 🦠 While progress on finding innovative new antibiotics has been made, there are few new contenders on the horizon and momentum has slowed www.vitalsigns.news/report-warns...

Inside EU Health: 💊 👩 EMA chief lays out her ambitions for women’s health; 📃 🟢 Council publishes Pharma Package agreed text; 👩‍🍼 👶 EU fertility falls to record low; 💉 💊 Novo Nordisk reaches an agreement with Hims &Hers www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🟩 💊 Pharmacists ‘on the front lines’ of Europe’s medicine shortages; 🧔‍♀️ 📈 The cost of untreated menopause on productivity; 🦠 🛌 Study highlights reduced ability to work among people with Long COVID www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🧏‍♀️ 🦻 World Hearing Day: Does Europe need a hearing health strategy; 💊 💉 EMA approves 12 medicines including Moderna’s combined COVID-19 and influenza vaccine; 🤰 👩‍🍼 Denmark eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

#WorldHearingDay Europe's Public Health Committee @sant.europarl.europa.eu held a briefing on hearing issues, Europe’s third-largest cause of disability. Do we need a hearing health strategy? www.vitalsigns.news/world-hearin...

EMA approves 12 new medicines including Moderna's COVID-19 and influenza combined vaccine www.vitalsigns.news/ema-approves...

Inside EU Health: 🧔‍♀️ 🙅‍♀️ ESF+ for abortion access; 💊 📉 pharma reforms could reduce costs by 20-25%; 📈 💰 pharma 29% of exports to US; 🕊️ 💊 ECCE receives lukewarm welcome www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🕊️ 💊 European Centre of Clinical Excellence for Pharmaceuticals; 🙍‍♀️ 🙅‍♀️ Instagram battle over ‘My Voice, My Choice’; 🏆 🏅 Health Policy Index highlights ten MEPs; 🔬 🦠 ECDC propose four new reference laboratories www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Health Policy Index highlights ten MEPs and asks what does leadership mean in 2026: Parliamentarians' set out their top priorities for 2026 amid growing uncertainty and geopolitical disruption www.vitalsigns.news/health-polic...

Inside EU Health: 🦸‍♀️ Ombudswoman inquiry over scrapped health grants; 🏭 🚭 🌳 🍔 New Exposome Alliance; 💶 MEPs call for safeguards for health funding in Competitiveness Fund; 👨‍🔬 🧪 👭 Europe urged to scale-up clinical trials; 🚭 Nordics for action on nicotine use www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

Inside EU Health: 🟠 🤡 ‘Tariff chaos’ but pharmaceuticals may stay outside the fray ⚖️ 🫗 Industry groups continue to fight Wastewater Treatment Directive despite court setback ⏳ 👩‍🔬 EMA starts its search for a new Executive Director www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...

With a mercurial US President it's very difficult to say what will happen next. www.vitalsigns.news/tariff-chaos...

🚿 💄 💊 🫗 Industry groups continue to fight Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive despite court setback www.vitalsigns.news/industry-gro...

Inside EU Health: 💊 💉 EFPIA publishes a comparative analysis of the biopharma strategies of 10 countries; 🔎 ECA casts doubt on EU cancer strategy’s targets, monitoring and funding; 👶 🍼 EU agencies says infant formula is a low risk following recall www.vitalsigns.news/inside-eu-he...