Health services across Europe will come under increasing pressure during the financial crisis, according to European Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, who is urging health ministers not to slash public spending on health care.

The European Commission next year plans to challenge poor health literacy levels in Europe with a new internet-based tool called Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface. More »

New EU rules designed to improve medical information available to patients will fail unless levels of health literacy are improved across Europe, MEPs and health campaigners warn.

The right to access healthcare across Europe could worsen health inequalities if patients are not given the right advice.

Ill health is linked to poverty, health inequality is linked to wealth inequality, and Britain, with a huge number of poor people by Western standards, and with the worst wealth inequality in Europe (or since our own records began), has a huge number of sick people by Western standards, and the worst health inequality in Europe (or since our own records began). Who knew? Not Tony Blair, the only L...

Although Europeans have become healthier and their life expectancy has improved in recent decades, major differences persist in the provision of care services and the presence of risk factors for health across the continent. 

A research submitted to Brussels shows that health insurers in Europe could have saved more than $3bn in 2004 alone through greater use of generic medicines at lower prices

That particular piece of arrant nonsense comes from my absolute favourite Euro Commissar, Viviane Reding. And there was I hoping I could sign a contract with NTT DoCoMo or Verizon. Still, the next time I eat something I will be conscious that I am giving 'an important vote of confidence...[to] the health of Europe's food sector'.

Measles remains a public health problem in Europe, and there are "serious doubts" that it can be eliminated by 2010 as health officials had hoped, according to a new report in The Lancet.

Open Europe and the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU are holding a debate in Brussels on Monday 30 March, entitled, “EU regulation: Getting better, or out of control?” Speakers include Christofer Fjellner, MEP; Jens Hedstrom, Business Europe; Marianne Klingbeil, European Commission; Jacques Pelkmans, College of Europe; Mats Persson, Research Director, Open Europe.