Food labelling: Where no legal name has been adopted, a Member State may not prohibit the use of terms traditionally associated with products of animal origin to designate a product containing vegetable proteins, according to the EU Court of Justice.
Today, close to 100,000 mpox vaccine doses will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making these the first delivery of the vaccine to the country. A second delivery amounting to around 100,000 vaccines is expected to arrive in the coming days.
EMA and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have published high-level principles and recommendations for all staff across the European medicines regulatory network (EMRN) using large language models (LLMs) in their work.
On World Sexual Health Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publishes a comprehensive review that underscores the urgent need to improve monitoring data and enhance targeted prevention interventions across Europe. The study provides evidence-based prevalence estimates for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Europe and identifies population groups at greatest risk of contracting these infections.
The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caught the EU partially off guard. Even though the two EU medical agencies in charge of the situation eventually did well, the pandemic also highlighted shortcomings and gaps that recent EU measures have sought to address.
The EU Commission has launched a call for the next Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Eligible candidates are invited to apply by 27 September 2024.
The EU Commission has approved the acquisition of Luxembourg-based MPILO S.à r.l. (‘MPILO’), the holding company of the Famar Group (‘Famar’), by Guernsey-based MidEuropa V Management Limited (‘MidEuropa Partners’). The transaction mainly concerns the pharmaceutical sector.
The EU Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of joint control of Eurobio Scientific SA , based in France, by IK Investment Partners, based in Luxembourg, and NextStage AM, based in France. The transaction mainly concerns the pharmaceutical diagnostics products and services sector.
The Commission has signed a contribution agreement with the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) to support Member States in retaining nurses in their health systems and making the profession more attractive to nurses.
The Committee MEPs will vote on amendments to the EU budget 2025 and on oral quetions to the EU Commission and the EU Council on UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku. They will also debate the EU emergency response actions to the outbreak of mpox.
Energy requirements reflect what an individual needs to maintain all bodily functions, depending on life stage and activity, and are essential for evaluating how well food supplies can meet the nutritional demands of a population. For the first time the IAEA is to help United Nations nutrition experts reevaluate human energy requirements: a key input for assessing global hunger.
The EU urges immediate humanitarian pauses to enable the vaccination of all children in Gaza against the poliovirus. The Gaza Strip has been polio-free for the last 25 years.
Excessively high or low temperatures presently cause 407,000 fatalities a year. Heat-related deaths, now six times more frequent in southern than in northern Europe, will occur 9.3 times more frequently in the south than in the north by 2100.
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control of Immedica Pharma by Impilo, both of Sweden, and by KKR of the US. The transaction relates primarily to the commercialization of medicines for rare diseases and specialty care products.
The EU Commission has authorised the mRNA vaccine ‘mResvia’, to immunise adults over 60 years of age against lower respiratory tract disease, which is caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.
In a new risk assessment, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has said that it is highly likely that the EU/EEA will see more imported cases of mpox caused by the clade I virus currently circulating in Africa.
One in five children – or 466 million – live in areas that experience at least double the number of extremely hot days every year compared with their grandparents’ generation, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on Wednesday.
Through the Africa CDC, these vaccines will be distributed to affected countries. Furthermore, HERA is in collaboration with the Africa CDC with the aim to expand access to mpox diagnostics and sequencing in the region, with a €3.5 million grant foreseen for early autumn.
The planes will be financed by the European Commission and will become the new backbone of the EU’s crisis response to tackle forest fires. Aircraft from the rescEU reserves can be rapidly deployed in case a country is facing severe wildfires that require additional support.
In 2024 and as of 31 July 2024, eight countries in Europe reported 69 locally acquired human cases of WNV infection. Cases were reported by Greece (31), Italy (25), Spain (5), Austria (2), Hungary (2), Serbia (2), France (1) and Romania (1). Eight deaths were reported by Greece (5), Italy (2) and Spain (1).
The EU Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) has signed a joint procurement framework contract alongside EU Member States for the supply of a medicine used to treat diphtheria with the pharmaceutical company Scandinavian Biopharma Distribution AB.
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