⚖️⚕️ MEPs have just endorsed the inter-institutional agreement on creating a European Health Data Space #EHDS .
EP rapporteurs: Tomislav Sokol & Annalisa Tardino

📎 Read the agreed text: europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_…
➡️Next step: #Eplenary vote April 22-25

🇺🇦 This morning, SANT Committee Press MEPs will exchange with Mykhailo Radutskyi, Chair of the Committee on Public Health, Medical Care amd Health Insurance & Maryna Slobodnichenko, Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine for European Integration

Live at 9.15 CET 👇

💊 ENVI Committee Press MEPs adopted their proposals to revamp EU pharmaceutical legislation

Directive ⬆️66 ⬇️2 ↔️9 Pernille Weiss
Regulation ⬆️67 ⬇️6 ↔️7 Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺

#EPlenary vote April I

Details in the press release 👇
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

Today is #RareDiseaseDay

#RareDiseases affect about 46 mln people in the EU

✅Study author Prof. Schmiegelow proposes more collaboration & EU expert hubs - interview: wp.me/panTdn-3uO
✅Event blog post: epthinktank.eu/2023/07/25/eu-…

Pernille Weiss Patrizia Toia Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺

Today is the rarest day of this leap year and it also coincides with the #RareDiseaseDay !

EMA has helped authorise over 240 new treatments for rare diseases since 2000.

Learn more about how EMA supports the development and authorisation of orphan medicines. ⬇️

29/02 the rarest day of the year Rare Disease Day. No therapy for 6thsnd. #RareDisease , 30million sick in the EU. We mark this day with SANT Committee Press meeting dedicated to EU actions i.a.: pediatric oncology #EUCancerPlan , #EUPharmaPackage #EHDS . Further ambitious steps needed

🎥🔴 Thursday, 29 February at 9.00 CET

SANT Committee Press exchange of views to mark #RareDiseaseDay

More information: europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/…

Watch live now: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/sant-commit…

Antibiotics are powerful drugs. But if we use them too much or in the wrong way, they’ll stop working. Fighting Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is our priority. Today’s report finds less use of antibiotics can reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria. #OneHealth #HealthUnion EU-JAMRAI

Standing firm in solidarity with Ukraine 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦.
Our response to Russia's full scale invasion was united and immediate. Through Temporary Protection & access to healthcare, we show #EUSolidarity with Ukraine.
europa.eu/!GkFcCh
#StandWithUkraine

Antimicrobial resistance ( #AMR ) is one of the biggest health threats of our times. Today we are launching the largest ever #EU4Health funded project to help reduce the risk of AMR.
➡️europa.eu/!hVmTYM
#OneHealth

🗓️ Tue 13 February, 10.00 CET in SANT Committee Press

Exchange of views: Tackling intra-EU brain-drain in the health sector &health delivery in remote/rural areas with Dr Matthias Wismar of European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies

🎥 Watch live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…

📢Are you a health stakeholder wishing to exchange the latest news within the community & expand your network?
Come and register at the EU Health Policy Platform #EUHPP
More information here⤵️
europa.eu/!rWT9mP

Did you miss the #EUCancerPlan event to mark the #WorldCancerDay yesterday?
Or do you just want to re-live some of the great moments again?
➡️Watch back the event: europa.eu/!H8kvG4

Robb Butler WHO/Europe discussed #COP28 , environment & health w/ SANT Committee Press.
He called to:
✅Stay true to #BudapestDeclaration commitments #7MCEH
✅Engage in ATACH alliance for transformative action on climate & health
✅Join the transatlantic dialogues on climate change

🔴🎥Live now in SANT Committee Press 👇

multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…

🆕 Beating #Cancer Inequalities in the EU 🇪🇺 provides cross-country comparisons and policy perspectives on major cancer risk factors, screening programmes and early diagnoses. Read our new report out today:

🔗 oe.cd/5pk

Almost 14,000 lives every year are lost to cervical cancer in🇪🇺and over 16,000 new Hepatitis B infections are reported.
 
Today’s Recommendation sends a clear message➡️we can prevent these cancers.

Prevention is always better than the cure.
 
#HealthUnion
europa.eu/!H93DpQ

Did you know that 40% of all cancer cases are preventable?

Today we continue delivering on the #EUCancerPlan by addressing cancers that can be prevented by vaccination:

Cancers caused by Human papillomaviruses (HPV) & the Hepatitis B virus (HBV).
▶europa.eu/!H93DpQ