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Belgium: Belgian hearts are with the Dutch

"Seeking a heart in Belgium," headlines De Standaard, leading with a report on the large numbers of patients who avoid long waiting lists […]

17 January 2011

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De Standaard
Spain: Smokers - banned almost everywhere

"Anti-smoking war will now be fought in clubs," headlines El Periódico de Catalunya in the wake of the ban on smoking in all public places […]

4 January 2011
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El Periódico de Catalunya
Pharmaceutical industry: European guinea pigs

“It’s the next big step in globalisation, and there’s good reason to wish that it wasn't,” remarks Vanity Fair. American pharmaceuticals companies are increasingly testing […]

23 December 2010
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Vanity Fair
France: Public health scandal inquiry

"State’s responsibility for Mediator:" Libération reports on the scandal over the antidiabetic drug Mediator, prescribed as an appetite suppressant and distributed by Servier Laboratories between […]

9 December 2010

Presseurop
Libération
HIV/AIDS: Everything's coming up roses

The Independent in London has no news on its front page at all today, just a nice picture of some gently wilting roses by the […]

1 December 2010

Presseurop
The Independent
Czech Republic: Young doctors flee the country

“I treat people 30 hours nonstop. I want to get out”, headlines Mladá Fronta DNES. The Prague daily tells the story of an exhausted young […]

2 November 2010

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Mladá Fronta DNES
Ireland: Abortion drugs on the net

"Customs seized 1,216 packs of illegal abortion drugs in 2009," headlines the Irish Times, which reports that a growing number of women in Ireland are […]

26 October 2010
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The Irish Times
Generic medicine: EC accused of doing Big Pharma’s bidding

MSF (Médecins sans Frontières) has accused the European Commission of blocking the production of cheap generic drugs in the developing world, reports the Guardian. After […]

11 October 2010
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The Guardian
Greece: Last gasp for public smoking

“Absolutely no smoking in parliament, except on the balcony,” remarks an ironic To Vima. On the day when “the total ban on smoking in public […]

1 September 2010

Presseurop
To Vima
Drugs: No to ‘shooting galleries’ in France

"Fillon shot up on repression" reads the headline of Libération, following the Prime Minister's opposition to the opening of experimental medically-supervised centres for hard-drug consumption, […]

13 August 2010

Presseurop
Libération
Smoke: Brussels to blank cigarette packs

"I'll have a pack of 'Smoking kills', please". This is how European smokers will soon be ordering their cigarettes if the proposal to eliminate all […]

6 August 2010
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Presseurop
Lidové noviny
Alimentation: Lobbies win food labelling war

The food labelling directive that passed its first reading in the European Parliament on 16 June which stipulates that food labels must plainly indicate the […]

17 June 2010
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EUobserver.com
European Union: Green light for healthcare without borders

“After Schengen, this is the second opening of the EU borders”, enthuses Dziennik Gazeta Prawna’s leader on the draft directive adopted on 8 June by […]

9 June 2010

Presseurop
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Greece: This crisis drives you crazy

Admissions to Dromokaitio hospital in Athens have doubled over the past four months, especially in the psychiatric ward. The cause is the recession and attendant […]

8 June 2010

Presseurop
To Vima
Romania: No more universal free health care

"Say goodbye to free state health care!" announces the front page of Adevărul. According to the terms of a new bill proposed by the Ministry of […]

25 March 2010
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Adevărul
United Kingdom: British hospitals, not the place to be

Senior managers who presided over one of the worst of the NHS’ recurring hospital scandals, in which up to 1,200 patients died, have got off […]

25 February 2010

Presseurop
The Daily Telegraph
Work: European Parliament out to mother mothers

“The EU has a finger in every pie,” editorialises Dagens Nyheter, reacting to the European Parliament Women’s Rights Committee proposal to extend maternity leave. Varying […]

24 February 2010

Presseurop
Dagens Nyheter
Romania: Swine-flu panic highly contagious

Authorities in France may have announced the end of the Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, but in Romania controversy over the virus is very much in […]

15 January 2010

Presseurop
România libera
Netherlands: The secret life of asbestos

On its front page, Trouw reports that "in 80% of cases in the Netherlands, work to remove asbestos in dwellings and businesses is conducted without a […]

8 January 2010

Presseurop
Trouw
Romania: Bucharest has knives out for junk food

The Romanian government has announced its introduction of a tax on junk food in order to help fund the health system and fight obesity. Set […]

7 January 2010

Presseurop
Evenimentul zilei
Swine Flu: Was the pandemic a scam?

"They organised the hysteria," headlines L'Humanité, "they" meaning the pharmaceutical lobbies. The charge is levelled by Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the health committee at the […]

7 January 2010

Presseurop
L'Humanité
Swine Flu: The germ of doubt

Several European governments are trying to resell millions of doses of swine flu vaccine. So was the threat exaggerated after all? The press takes the authorities to task.

5 January 2010
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Hospitals: Don’t get sick in the UK

“Britain, the sick man of Europe”, headlines the Daily Mail on its front page. In an article accompanied by a photo of a silvery-haired jogger […]

9 December 2009

Presseurop
The Daily Mail
Cross-border treatment: EU-wide healthcare still in waiting room

"Spain and Romania against reimbursement of medical tourism expenses," reports the Spanish edition of Adevărul. Health ministers from Europe's 27 member states have failed to […]

3 December 2009

Presseurop
Adevărul
Abortion: Ireland challenged at the ECHR

All forms of abortion are illegal and subject (in theory) to punishment in Ireland. During this year’s bitter Lisbon campaign many on the Catholic right […]

30 November 2009

Presseurop
The Irish Times
Swine flu: Romania confesses vaccine not safe

“Pandemic vaccine not authorised for under-16s,” reads Evenimentul Zilei’s headline. The vaccination campaign for swine flu (H1N1), which gets underway in Romania on 27th November, […]

27 November 2009

Presseurop
Evenimentul zilei
Netherlands: Vaccine panic outstrips pandemic

The Netherlands has been swept up in a “wave of anxiety” and scepticism about H1N1 flu vaccinations, reports De Volkskrant. The Dutch daily recounts that […]

9 November 2009

Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Ukraine/Poland: Flu at the gates

It’s only a matter of days, maybe hours, before H1N1 reaches Poland, according to Polska’s front page leader. The epidemic is ravaging nearby Ukraine where […]

2 November 2009

Presseurop
Polska The Times
Prevention: EU redoubles efforts to fight AIDS

100,000 new cases of HIV infection annually in Europe. Two million seropositive Europeans, 730,000 of them in the EU alone. These figures for the period […]

27 October 2009

Presseurop
La Stampa
Pharmaceutical Industry: Dutch doctors addicted to laboratories

According to the lead story in Trouw, nearly 70% of doctors responsible for establishing medical guidelines in the Netherlands have financial links to the pharmaceutical […]

26 October 2009

Presseurop
Trouw
Pharmaceutical Industry: Dutch doctors addicted to laboratories

According to the lead story in Trouw, nearly 70% of doctors responsible for establishing medical guidelines in the Netherlands have financial links to the pharmaceutical […]

26 October 2009

Presseurop
Trouw
Organ Donations: Study calls for universal "presumed consent"

"Approximately 6,800 kidney transplants – or 10% of the total number of kidney transplants worldwide – are conducted for transplant tourists, who are […]

14 October 2009

Presseurop
La Vanguardia
Drugs: Spice, a variety of legal high

Sold on the Web and in “smartshops” as herbs or incense, Spice is catching on among cannabis enthusiasts. It contains synthetic cannabinoids, which worries the European health watchdogs. But substances of this sort are difficult to detect and, consequently, to prohibit, notes Libération.

1 October 2009
1052 Libération Paris
France: The great Romanian doctor drain

"In Romania, they have to take bribes to live decently. In the West, they make a fortune!" The front page of Cotidianul presents an alarming […]

10 September 2009

Presseurop
Cotidianul
Influenza A: Democracy brought down with H1N1

"We need frank and open discussion on the negative impact that strategies to combat the pandemic may have on civil liberties. Crisis management measures cannot be […]

8 September 2009

Presseurop
Libération
Swine flu: Big pharma's small-mindedness

As swine flu goes global, the developing world is gearing up to produce cheaper generic versions of Tamiflu. Roche, the makers of the drug, however, is resisting a move that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. According to Johann Hari in the Independent, it is receiving backing from the unlikeliest of quarters - the World Health Organisation.

5 August 2009
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Cannabis: An identification card for coffee shop customers

Dutch "cannabis supermarkets" have made Belgian and French people very happy. But it won't last much longer. According to the daily Trouw, Interior minister Guusje […]

3 July 2009

Presseurop
Trouw
Tobacco: Smoking ban is all Greek

In Greece, which has the highest rate of tobacco consumption in Europe, a law banning smoking in public buildings officially comes into force July 1st. The ban is a subject of controversy — all the more so because the Ministry of Health has yet to publish a decree on the venues concerned and the conditions under which the law will be applied.

1 July 2009
1 Ta Nea Athens
Assisted reproduction: Fertility tourism, a fruitful industry

In the absence of European legislation on assisted reproduction, Dutch daily Trouw reports that "every year, at least 20-25,000 European women travel to another EU […]

30 June 2009

Presseurop
Trouw
Romania: Bucharest opens HIV academy

România Libera hails a European first, and a milestone in the fight against AIDS – a field in which Romania has made significant […]

29 June 2009

Presseurop
România libera

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