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                <language>en</language><item><title>Slovakia | State of emergency in hospitals</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1241831-state-emergency-hospitals</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The  fight for survival. What more can be done?&rdquo; writes Pravda two days  after the collective resignation of 1,400 Slovak doctors to protest [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111202pravda.jpg" length="7158" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Doctors mobilise against privatisation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1147361-doctors-mobilise-against-privatisation</link><description><![CDATA[Although the project to transform 31 public hospitals into private companies has been shelved until after general elections next March, &ldquo;doctors are continuing to resign&rdquo;,&nbsp;headlines [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Pravda-08112011-100.jpg" length="40763" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | New poor seek humanitarian aid</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1029241-new-poor-seek-humanitarian-aid</link><description><![CDATA[Hardest hit by the draconian budget cuts imposed by the debt crisis, the most disadvantaged Greeks are seeking health care from humanitarian NGOs. Interviewed by [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:57:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Inside Europe last leper's colony (Evenimentul zilei, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/940541-inside-europe-last-leper-s-colony</link><description><![CDATA[In Tichileşti, in the Danube delta, 19 patients continue to live in Europe’s last leper colony. Evenimentul Zilei reports from a location that was long kept secret by Romanian authorities. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tichilesti-Leper-Hospital.jpg" length="108909" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:49:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mental health | Survey reveals a mad and sad Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/921651-survey-reveals-mad-and-sad-europe</link><description><![CDATA[A new survey reports that almost 40% of the population of Europe suffers from a mental disorder each year, writes the Irish Examiner. Along with [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:04:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | TB is alive and well</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/884441-tb-alive-and-well</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Why does Romania hold the European record for TB?&rdquo; asks Rom&acirc;nia Libera.&nbsp;According to the statistics, 20,000 Romanians currently suffer from this disease, a rate of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110825rl.jpg" length="7681" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:11:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Rise in assisted deaths</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/878961-rise-assisted-deaths</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Growing trend for euthanasia,&quot; headlines the front page of Le Soir.&nbsp;&quot;Since 2002, and the implementation of a law that partially depenalises the practice, there have [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/LeSoir-23082011-100.jpg" length="12556" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:48:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>E.coli crisis | Hamburg - agony of the big city (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/697821-hamburg-agony-big-city</link><description><![CDATA[Hamburg, at the epicentre of the food crisis brought on by the EHEC pathogen, has run up the epidemic flag: the blood supply is running out, and vegetables are rotting unsold. ‘We’re still alive,’ hisses the vendor in her market booth. A report. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/vegetable-hamburg.jpg" length="49691" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:16:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food | Deadly bacteria - German weakness</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/697881-deadly-bacteria-german-weakness</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;First cucumbers, then soja, tomorrow it will probably be strawberries,&rdquo; headlines De Volkskrant,  which explains that even in Germany, &ldquo;everyone is equally baffled&rdquo;  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/volkskrant-07062011-100.jpg" length="38316" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:59:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Not killer cucumbers, but bean-sprouts</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/695751-not-killer-cucumbers-bean-sprouts</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Now it&rsquo;s sprouts,&quot; headlines Die Welt  following the announcement by Lower Saxony&rsquo;s Agriculture Minister of a  new leads in the investigation to determine [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Welt-Kompakt-06062011-100.jpg" length="35530" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:52:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>E.coli | New food scare, same old mistakes (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/692731-new-food-scare-same-old-mistakes</link><description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that E. coli bacteria are dangerous. But the panic stricken response of authorities and consumers to the current outbreak of infections is largely pointless. A Belgian editorialist complains about the damage not only to the European economy but also to the spirit of Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Cucumber-goats.jpg" length="26179" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:25:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food | Killer cucumber, a European panic attack (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/689201-killer-cucumber-european-panic-attack</link><description><![CDATA[After helping to fuel the controversy, the European press is speculating on the public psychosis associated with the EHEC bacteria. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Dilem_0.jpg" length="78288" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:46:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Agriculture victim of the killer cucumbers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/686271-agriculture-victim-killer-cucumbers</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The boycott of Spanish vegetables is spreading throughout Europe despite the lack of scientific evidence,&rdquo; writes Spanish daily El Mundo following a food safety alert [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110531-ElMundo-100.jpg" length="7210" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:37:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Food | Europe "in a state of nuclear emergency"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/577671-europe-state-nuclear-emergency</link><description><![CDATA[Following the disaster in the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima and the fear of contamination in food coming from Japan, the European Commission has [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:08:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Doctor exodus averted</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/506441-doctor-exodus-averted</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The doctors have won. They got higher wages and a promise to reform the health system&quot;, leads Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny, after Czech doctors had resigned en [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hospodarske-Novivy-100_0.JPG" length="29398" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:50:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Army doctors to manage the hospitals?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/496001-army-doctors-manage-hospitals</link><description><![CDATA[The Czech Government has admitted that the health system is threatened by the doctors&rsquo; protests. &quot;The crisis plan: the Army will pitch in,&quot; announces Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hospodarske-Noviny-09022011-100.JPG" length="40151" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:43:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Head shop panic in Eastern Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/483651-head-shop-panic-eastern-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;I spent a day with the ethnobotanical poisons&quot; leads Adevărul after investigating the dramatic expansion of the &quot;dream store&quot; or &quot;spice shops&rdquo; in Romania. On [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/31012011-Adevarul-100.jpg" length="17473" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:13:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Revolting doctors cry victory</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/479891-revolting-doctors-cry-victory</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The government has found the money it needs for the doctors. Insurance company will have to dip into their reserves,&rdquo; reports Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny.  The [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/27012011-Hospodarske-No-100.jpg" length="12229" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:30:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | "AIDS generation" accuses state</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/474201-aids-generation-accuses-state</link><description><![CDATA[Two  representatives of the &quot;AIDS generation&quot; have demanded that the  Romanian state officially recognise its responsibility for the infection  of several thousand [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/24012011-Adevarul-100.jpg" length="17440" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:09:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Healthcare abroad | Medical Schengen zone is go</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/469421-medical-schengen-zone-go</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Your neighbour goes to Slovakia for varicose vein treatment. A German and a Czech are waiting for an appointment with a Polish ophthalmologist&rdquo;. Gazeta Wyborcza [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:33:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Belgian hearts are with the Dutch</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/464091-belgian-hearts-are-dutch</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Seeking a heart in Belgium,&quot; headlines De Standaard,  leading with a report on the large numbers of patients who avoid long  waiting lists [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/17012011-DeStandaard-100.jpg" length="16004" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:43:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Smokers - banned almost everywhere</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/447801-smokers-banned-almost-everywhere</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Anti-smoking war will now be fought in clubs,&quot; headlines El Peri&oacute;dico de Catalunya in the wake of the ban on smoking in all public places [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/04012011-El-Periodico-100.jpg" length="17735" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:02:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pharmaceutical industry | European guinea pigs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/441931-european-guinea-pigs</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the next big step in globalisation, and there&rsquo;s good reason to wish that it wasn&#039;t,&rdquo; remarks Vanity Fair. American pharmaceuticals companies are increasingly testing [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:26:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Public health scandal inquiry</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/423021-public-health-scandal-inquiry</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;State&rsquo;s responsibility for Mediator:&quot; Lib&eacute;ration reports on the scandal over the antidiabetic drug Mediator, prescribed as an appetite suppressant and distributed by Servier Laboratories between [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/09122010-Liberation-100.jpg" length="15891" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:34:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>HIV/AIDS | Everything&#039;s coming up roses</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/411691-everythings-coming-roses</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Image 4*.jpg" length="31079" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:51:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Young doctors flee the country</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/374831-young-doctors-flee-country</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I treat people 30 hours nonstop. I want to get out&rdquo;, headlines Mlad&aacute; Fronta DNES. The Prague daily tells the story of an exhausted young [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/02112010-MF-DNES-100.jpg" length="13428" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:27:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Abortion drugs on the net</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/371251-abortion-drugs-net</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Customs seized 1,216 packs of illegal abortion drugs in 2009,&quot; headlines the Irish Times, which reports that a growing number of women in Ireland are [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/26102010-Irish-Times-100.jpg" length="12815" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:43:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Generic medicine | EC accused of doing Big Pharma's bidding</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/357481-ec-accused-doing-big-pharma-s-bidding</link><description><![CDATA[MSF (M&eacute;decins sans Fronti&egrave;res) has accused the European Commission of blocking the production of cheap generic drugs in the developing world, reports the Guardian. After [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:09:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Last gasp for public smoking</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/328191-last-gasp-public-smoking</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Absolutely no smoking in parliament, except on the balcony,&rdquo; remarks an ironic To Vima. On the day when &ldquo;the total ban on smoking in public [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100901tv.jpg" length="7288" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:10:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Drugs | No to 'shooting galleries' in France</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/315081-no-shooting-galleries-france</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Fillon shot up on repression&quot; reads the headline of Lib&eacute;ration, following the Prime Minister&#039;s opposition to the opening of experimental medically-supervised centres for hard-drug consumption, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/13082010-Liberation.jpg" length="12472" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:04:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Smoke | Brussels to blank cigarette packs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/309801-brussels-blank-cigarette-packs</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;I&#039;ll have a pack of &#039;Smoking kills&#039;, please&quot;. This is how European smokers will soon be ordering their cigarettes if the proposal to eliminate all [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100806lidovenoviny.jpg" length="7576" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:18:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Alimentation | Lobbies win food labelling war</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/275631-lobbies-win-food-labelling-war</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:07:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Green light for healthcare without borders</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/269471-green-light-healthcare-without-borders</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;After Schengen, this is the second opening of the EU borders&rdquo;, enthuses Dziennik Gazeta Prawna&rsquo;s leader on the draft directive adopted on 8 June by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Dziennik-09062010.jpg" length="36607" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:31:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | This crisis drives you crazy</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/268721-crisis-drives-you-crazy</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100608tovima.jpg" length="7296" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:10:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | No more universal free health care</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/217521-no-more-universal-free-health-care</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Say goodbye to free state health care!&quot; announces the&nbsp;front page of Adevărul. According to the terms of a new bill proposed by the Ministry of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/adevarul-25032010.jpg" length="40679" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:52:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | British hospitals, not the place to be</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/198431-british-hospitals-not-place-be</link><description><![CDATA[Senior managers who presided over one of the worst of the NHS&rsquo; recurring hospital scandals, in which up to 1,200 patients died, have got off [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Daily-Telegraph-25022010.JPG" length="37115" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:03:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Work | European Parliament out to mother mothers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/197651-european-parliament-out-mother-mothers</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The EU has a finger in every pie,&rdquo; editorialises Dagens Nyheter, reacting to the European Parliament Women&rsquo;s Rights Committee proposal to extend maternity leave. Varying [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Dagens-Nyheter-24022010.JPG" length="42116" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Swine-flu panic highly contagious</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/170301-swine-flu-panic-highly-contagious</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Romania-Libera-15012010.jpg" length="45488" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:01:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | The secret life of asbestos</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/165551-secret-life-asbestos</link><description><![CDATA[On its front page, Trouw reports that&nbsp;&quot;in 80% of cases in the Netherlands, work to remove asbestos in dwellings and businesses is conducted without a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/trouw-08012010.JPG" length="34661" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:46:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Bucharest has knives out for junk food</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/164901-bucharest-has-knives-out-junk-food</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100107-evenimentulzilei.jpg" length="7773" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:30:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Swine Flu | Was the pandemic a scam?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/164701-was-pandemic-scam</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;They organised the hysteria,&quot; headlines L&#039;Humanit&eacute;, &quot;they&quot; meaning the pharmaceutical lobbies. The charge is levelled by Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the health committee at the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Humanite-010710.jpg" length="45079" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:51:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Swine Flu | The germ of doubt (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/163211-germ-doubt</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/H1N1-vaccine.jpg" length="65868" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:26:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hospitals | Don't get sick in the UK</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/152351-don-t-get-sick-uk</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Britain, the sick man of Europe&rdquo;, headlines the Daily Mail on its front page. In an article accompanied by a photo of a silvery-haired jogger [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Daily-Mail-091209.JPG" length="47738" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:39:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cross-border treatment | EU-wide healthcare still in waiting room</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/149211-eu-wide-healthcare-still-waiting-room</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Spain and Romania against reimbursement of medical tourism expenses,&quot; reports the Spanish edition of Adevărul. Health ministers from Europe&#039;s 27 member states have failed to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/adevarul-031209.jpg" length="47057" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:32:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Abortion | Ireland challenged at the ECHR</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/146941-ireland-challenged-echr</link><description><![CDATA[All forms of abortion are illegal and subject (in theory) to punishment in Ireland. During this year&rsquo;s bitter Lisbon campaign many on the Catholic right [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/irish-times-301109_0.jpg" length="34406" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Swine flu | Romania confesses vaccine not safe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/146051-romania-confesses-vaccine-not-safe</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Pandemic vaccine not authorised for under-16s,&rdquo; reads Evenimentul Zilei&rsquo;s headline. The vaccination campaign for swine flu (H1N1), which gets underway in Romania on 27th November, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/evenimentul-zilei_0.jpg" length="45832" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:35:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Vaccine panic outstrips pandemic</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/133361-vaccine-panic-outstrips-pandemic</link><description><![CDATA[The Netherlands has been swept up in a &ldquo;wave of anxiety&rdquo; and scepticism about H1N1 flu vaccinations, reports De Volkskrant. The Dutch daily recounts that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-091109.jpg" length="44859" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ukraine/Poland | Flu at the gates</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/128871-flu-gates</link><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s only a matter of days, maybe hours, before H1N1 reaches Poland, according to Polska&rsquo;s front page leader. The epidemic is ravaging nearby Ukraine where [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/polska-091102.jpg" length="6298" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:04:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Prevention | EU redoubles efforts to fight AIDS</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/125831-eu-redoubles-efforts-fight-aids</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/la-stampa-091027.jpg" length="6382" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:35:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pharmaceutical Industry | Dutch doctors addicted to laboratories</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/124491-dutch-doctors-addicted-laboratories</link><description><![CDATA[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 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/trouw-261009.JPG" length="39062" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
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