The formal opening ceremony organised on 9 March 2017 by the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova, the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of the Republic of Moldova, the State Medicines Control Agency under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania and the Office for Registration of Medicinal...

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) signed the Memorandum of Cooperation.

Prof. Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas, ADVANTAGE Joint Action Coordinator, Head of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Getafe shares his views on the new EU-supported Joint Action and how it will address issues of healthy ageing and frailty.

Regional Workshop on Environmental Monitoring is going on in hotel “Karolina” (Sausio 13-osios g. 2, Vilnius). This event  was organizes by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Radiation Protection Centre (RPC). 

The new Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 report – launched on 23 November – is the initial result of the first two-year State of Health in the EU cycle; it provides Member States with reliable health information and sound expert analysis that can help them form evidence-based policy. 

On the occasion of European Organ Donor Day in October, we recently hosted a session of the European Parliament in Brussels, organised in cooperation with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Europe (PHA Europe). Together with our colleagues Romana Tomc and Alojz Peterle, we saw this event as an opportunity to underline our concern for the thousands of...

It is the role of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) to avoid unnecessary harm by the use of medicines. As Directive 2010/84/EU states, “Pharmacovigilance rules are necessary for the protection of public health in order to prevent, detect and assess adverse reactions to medicinal products placed on the Union market, as the full safety profile of medicinal products...

Millions of EU citizens owe their survival or quality of life to blood transfusions, to the transplantation of organs, tissues and cells such as bone marrow or corneas, or to the use of donated gametes for assisted reproduction, all made possible by the generous donations made by others. While these benefits are widely acknowledged,...

The European Antibiotic Awareness Day received the European Health Award, a prize awarded each year by the European Health Forum Gastein.

Cross border health threats represent a substantial challenge to both developed and underdeveloped countries. Because of vector spread and the development of rapid transport links across and between continents, all parts of the world can be quickly affected by outbreaks. The potential for severe human health impacts is accompanied by often very substantial societal and economic...

How can the Commission help make health systems more effective, resilient and accessible? It's a complex challenge – Member States have their own national healthcare systems – their own networks of people, institutions and resources working in the field of health – so how can the EU provide added value?