Welcome, health colleagues, to the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) update – this week, we are firstly detailing a major work that EAPM members conducted relating to citizens’ trust and public engagement in the health-care arena, writes EAPM Executive Director Dr. Denis Horgan. Factors affecting citizen trust and public engagement and use of real-world evidence […]
The Commission s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has confirmed the validity of the Omicron-specific detection method it has developed. All laboratories carrying out PCR tests could use this new method to detect and identify Omicron without the need of an expensive and time-consuming sequencing. Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Commissioner responsible for the Joint Research […]
The Commission has put forward proposals to ensure the continued long-term supply of medicines from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and to address outstanding supply concerns in Cyprus, Ireland and Malta. In the context of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, this means that the same medicines will continue to be available in Northern Ireland at […]
Today (20 December), the European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization (CMA) for the COVID‑19 vaccine Nuvaxovid, developed by Novavax, the fifth COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the EU. This authorization follows a positive scientific recommendation based on a thorough assessment of the safety, effectiveness and quality of the vaccine by the European Medicines Agency […]
The phaseout of cage systems in EU animal farming to which the European Commission has committed will inevitably bring challenges, but this is not a valid reason to delay the transition beyond 2027, Compassion in World Farming EU said today (9 December). Olga Kikou, head of Compassion in World Farming EU, was speaking during a […]