Warning over drug-resistant diseases in EU
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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The European Commission has approved a financial package of â¬188m (US$233.1m) to fight animal diseases in the EU in 2005. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE
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YORK, UK, Jun 29 (IPS) - African farmers could soon find themselves forced  out of the lucrative European market for agricultural products as  retailers and government move towards a zero tolerance policy on  chemical residues in food.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become pandemic.
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The EU health commissioner calls for member states to copy Ireland and ban smoking in indoor public spaces.
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Proposed changes to healthcare regulation in the European Union could threaten  patient care standards, doctors argue.
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The outbreak of deadly bird flu in  Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness  for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become  pandemic.
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CHANGES IN the training of junior doctors and the introduction of the European Working Time Directive has led to a chronic shortage of qualified staff and warnings that patient care could be compromised, ...
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The European Commission has approved a financial package to fight animal diseases in the EU. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and a range of other animal diseases that impact on animal and human health.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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The Aids epidemic is posing a serious threat to Europe's social and economic stability, warn experts.
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EU plans to make it easier for European patients to seek healthcare within any member state
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The European Union rejects Neurochem's lead drug.
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The European Commission is likely to authorize the first genetically modified (GMO) seeds for commercial use across EU territory this week, in the face of widespread consumer resistance to biotech crops.
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Recent outbreaks of bird flu in Britain and Hungary, and any link between the two, give no reason to alter European Union laws that aim to contain and control the disease, the EU's executive arm said on Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 22 (IPS) - Increases in development aid will not be sufficient  to reach the United Nations targets on improving health in poor  countries, a new European Parliament report has warned.
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WASHINGTON: World Health Organisation and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.