United Nations agencies call for ban on virginity testing
A global call to eradicate virginity testing, which is medically unnecessary & often painful, has been announced by United Nations agencies.
Virginity testing, a gynaecological...
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: time to accelerate progress
Global health organisations committed to collaboratively accelerate the growth of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Orchestrated by the World Health Organization, the initiative...
Reform is required: older adults that self-harm need care too
According to a UK study, the majority of over 65s who self-harm are not referred for specialist help.
Published in The Lancet Psychiatry Journal, adults...
Prescription cannabis in UK: have the law and the drug become best buds?
The UK government has announced that patients can receive prescription cannabis by specialist doctors from 1 November 2018.
Health Europa previously reported upon the review...
The digital challenge: achieving a paperless NHS by 2020
Despite calls for a paperless NHS back in 2013, the service is far from completing its paperless journey. Qlik’s David Bolton sets out how...
Time for change: EU energy efficiency and renewable energy targets
An urgent call for more ambitious EU energy efficiency and renewable energy targets is set by Leading European Healthcare Institutions.
The European Health Care Climate...
New WHO guidelines aim to reduce high caesarean section rates
First ever guidelines created regarding non-clinical interventions designed to reduce worldwide increase in caesarean section rates.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has designed new guidelines...
Sustainability in biobanking: a perspective from ISBER
Zisis Kozlakidis, the past president of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, considers how to effectively confront the challenge of sustainability in...
The legal medical cannabis movement
Health Europa explores the various approaches to medical cannabis, as more and more countries around the world move in favour of legalisation.
With medical cannabis...
Noise pollution: not only an environmental hazard but also links to mental health
WHO released Environmental Noise Guidelines showing strong evidence that noise pollution is a top environmental hazard to both physical and mental health.
The document released...
Three million EU nurses focusing on the European elections
Alessia Gramuglia and Paul De Raeve, of the European Federation of Nurses Associations, explain why the united voice of three million EU nurses is...
The changing face of medical cannabis in Denmark
Cannabis Danmark CEO Rikke Jakobsen reflects on what the new medical cannabis pilot and development programmes mean for patients, growers and healthcare professionals in...
Brexit could break the NHS
The Immigration Advice Service’s Maddie Grounds explains why the EU referendum, Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ and a possible no-deal Brexit scenario could devastate the...
NHS under severe strain with 12% drop in mental health nurses
The Mental Health Network reports evidence of the NHS under severe strain, with a drop in mental health nurses.
Workforce statistics for June 2018 show...
Future EU enlargement: fit-for-purpose accession negotiation mechanisms needed
Looking ahead to future EU enlargements, Dr Paul De Raeve reflects on the mechanisms to process compliance with EU legislation and the impact of...
Mobile applications in wound care: a digital transformation
Speaking to Health Europa, Dr med Patricia Sigam MPH, the co-founder and CEO of digitalMedLab™, discusses the revolutionary potential of mobile applications in wound...
WHO calls for urgent action to end the tuberculosis epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a 2018 edition of its Global Tuberculosis Report. The report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of...
Tilray gains US Government approval to import a medical cannabis study drug
Import of pharmaceutical grade medical cannabis produced by Tilray® Inc has been approved by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), with a special study...
NHS to provide free targeted treatment for melanoma cancer
Hundreds of patients with melanoma cancer, a type of aggressive skin disease, are to be provided with targeted therapy by the NHS in England...
Have health inequalities in England increased?
Public Health England (PHE) have released their 2018 public health profile, confirming that although some improvements have been made, there are still stark health...
