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Improving the efficiency of chemotherapy with a new molecule

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Researchers from the CNRS and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, have demonstrated that methiothepin, a small molecule, can improve the efficiency of chemotherapy by inhibiting the resistance of certain tumours. Cancerous tumours are also capable of ‘detoxing’, subsequently limiting the efficiency of chemotherapy, and in order to better understand this phenomenon, the research team studied […]

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Info Day, Horizon 2020 ‘Health, demographic change and wellbeing’

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Save the date!  The European Commission is organising an Information Day to present the 2019 funding opportunities of the Health, demographic change and wellbeing societal challenge. This half-day event (9:00-12:00) will only be webstreamed.  The link will be published on this page a week before the event. The programme will be online in the coming days. Please

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Delegates at World Health Assembly agree on new 5-year strategic plan

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World Health Assembly delegates have agreed on an ambitious new strategic plan for the next 5 years. The WHO’s 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) is designed to help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – with a particular focus on SDG3: ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages

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European Commission proposes health recommendations to 12 EU countries

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On 23 May 2018, the Commission presented the 2018 country-specific recommendations as part of the European Semester Spring Package, setting out its economic policy guidance for Member States for the next 12 to 18 months. Director General of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety Xavier Prats Monné discusses the implications for the health sector. The European

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EU Best Practice Portal

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Identifying, disseminating and transferring best practices is a priority for the EU in order to support the progress towards health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention in Europe to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 and the nine UN/WHO global voluntary targets. This portal is a “one-stop shop” for consulting good and best practices collected in

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Building Cooperation in Cross-border Healthcare

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The Study “Cross-border cooperation: capitalising on existing initiatives for cooperation in cross-border regions” published by the Commission today maps EU-funded cooperation projects for the period 2007 to 2017 in EU and EEA countries and Switzerland; provides insight into opportunities and challenges for cross-border cooperation in healthcare; and offers guidance to local and regional authorities and

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World Malaria Day

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World Malaria Day, 25 April 2018 Seven decades, seven voices in the global malaria fight. This year’s World Malaria Day coincides with the 70th anniversary of WHO. To mark the Day, we are sharing a series of interviews with leaders and advocates in the global malaria response, as they reflect on key moments in fighting

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EU legislation makes Blood, Tissues and Cells safer

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The open public consultation evaluating the EU legal frameworks on blood, tissues and cells has found that that the majority of the respondents, who included both individual citizens and various groups, such as professional societies, donor and patient organisations and national authorities, consider that the legislation had made blood, tissues and cells safer in the EU. Most respondents find

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How to make sense of health system efficiency comparisons

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Improving health system efficiency is a compelling policy goal, especially in systems facing serious resource constraints. However, in order to improve efficiency we must know how to properly measure it. A new policy brief therefore proposes an analytic framework for understanding and interpreting many of the most common health care efficiency indicators. The brief’s key

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