EPHA is an international non-profit association registered in Belgium. Our membership is composed of not-for-profit organisations working on all aspects of public health.
EPHA’s mission is to promote and protect the health of all people living in Europe and to advocate for greater participation of citizens in health-related policy making at the European level.
Check EPHA’s business plan 2006 - 2010 and EPHA’s Annual report for 2006. Below you will find the latest articles from the main sections of our website.
Newsletter April 2008
Secretariat News April 2008
Presentation on the Open Method of Coordination (French)
New Italian EU commissioner nominated
EU lobbying transparency a step closer but still some way to go
The European Commission adopted a regulation on the use of safe recycled plastics in food packaging
EFSA: food can pass resistant bacteria to people
**Updated** Food additives associated with children’s hyperactivity
Slovenian Presidency Conference stresses importance of nutrition and physical activity
Strengthening health systems to control the health effects of climate change, report says
Eurosafe issues a new report on injuries prevention in the European Union
The Royal College of Physicians issues "Osteoarthritis"
Two people die from vCJD in Spain
Preventing date rape
EU finance ministers agree on the necessity to improve social welfare spending and reform the IMF
Round Table on Aid Effectiveness and Health
EPHA Consultation Response on "Information to Patients", April 2008
**update** Big pharma groups raided in EU antitrust probe
Have your say!
European Commission consultation on Reforming the EU budget (Closing date has been extended: 15 June 2008)
European Commission consultation on The scheme to distribute free food to the most deprived persons in the Community (Closing date: 14 May 2008)
European Commission consultation on Patient safety (Closing date: 20 May 2008)
To read elsewhere on the web
- Awareness of stroke symptoms lacking in US
- Behavioral therapy doesn't ease kids' constipation
- Socially isolated women have increased stroke risk
- 'Falls clinics' help cut elderly fall risk
- Pelvic floor maladies can impact women's sex life
- Firefighters show higher risks of certain cancers
- Early poverty may impair heart's nighttime rest
- Five percent of breast tumors may double in month
- Researchers find neuroblastoma genes
- Half of diabetics in U.S. have arthritis, CDC says
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