The European Commission as just opened a roadmap called “Europe’s beating cancer plan” which is open for feedback for 4 weeks (ends on March 3rd 2020) Every year, 3.5 million people in the EU are diagnosed with cancer, and 1.3 million die from it. Over 40% of cancer cases are preventable. Without reversing current trends, […]

Summary of Provisions Romania’s Chamber of Deputies is currently considering draft legislation to adopt a number of important, FCTC-compliant measures. Currently, Romania only has strong, 100% smoke free legislation that covers traditional tobacco products. The bill, registered as PL-x 587/2019 covers the following measures: New Products Harmonize new products (HTP/ENDS) with traditional tobacco under all […]

The EU-JAMRAI Newsletter (July 2019) was recently released, announcing a variety of activities aimed at tackling the prevalence and the surge of antibiotic microbial resistance (AMR). Supported by the Health Programme of the Health and Food Safety Directorate-General, EU-JAMRAI is a unique place gathering all key actors in the fight against AMR, 27 Member States, […]

UEMO is proud to announce the publication of the 2018 SMART/UEMO report “Benchmarking Deployment of eHealth among GPs”. UEMO was an active contributor gathering data for the report which has come to the conclusion that eHealth adoption in primary care is on the rise in the EU. According to the Executive Summary, the European Commission […]

Today, 6 June 2019, UEMO is pleased to announce a joint collaboration with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) and Wonca Europe in order to improve the access and quality of primary care in the European Union. The agreement was signed at EMA, on its new headquarters in Amsterdam. […]

Family Physicians – as any other physicians- are smart, tough, durable, resourceful people. However, they are the ”canaries” in the health care coalmine, and they are killing themselves at alarming rates (twice that of active duty military members) signaling something is desperately wrong with the system. The culture of medicine values all doctors, but it values doctors […]

UEMO is happy to support the European Medicines Agency (EMA) by sharing EMA’s video about the European Immunization Week as well as raising awareness on the importance of overall vaccination. On April 24, EMA published an awareness video on its website, entitled ‘Our vaccine heroes’, in which points out the science-based approach of our vaccines […]

On April 23rd, at 21h00 (Central European Time), EUROPREV, the European Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice, released the first webinar of EUROPREV e-learning webinars 2019. This is a free medical education activity. EUROPREV said they will try to debate interesting topics related to preventive medicine from a very […]