This week EURACTIV's health reporter Marta Iraola talks to Dr. Emilie Karafillakis about vaccine confidence in Europe and what is behind people's lack of trust in vaccination and public health campaigns. In this episode, the health team reunite

AI: at the Interface of computer science and Medicine

Jul 19th, 2023 32m 33s

From YouTube-recommended videos to facial recognition used to unlock smartphones, AI is already being used on a daily basis. The healthcare sector is not an exception as its ability to process vast amounts of medical data helps in diagnostics a

European Health Data Space on the Parliament's Plate

Jul 12th, 2023 25m 54s

As the European Parliament debates how European health data space should be shaped, EURACTIV talks with the co-rapporteur of the file, Croatian MEP Tomislav Sokol (EPP), touching on primary and secondary use of data, the reasons why parliament

Balancing patients' privacy and health data's potential

Jul 5th, 2023 20m 29s

European Health Data Space (EHDS) focuses on the primary and secondary use of data. While the primary use of data is data used by citizens and healthcare professionals at the national and EU levels the secondary data is to be used by researcher

The challenge of guaranteeing access to healthcare to all Ukrainian refugees

Jun 28th, 2023 19m 8s

On the occasion of the first Healthcare Forum, which took place in Wąsowo, Poland last week, Euractiv spoke with the Regional Director of WHO/Europe, Dr Hans Kluge. In this interview, Dr. Kluge looked back on his meeting with the Polish and Ukr

A closer look at Europe's fertility challenge

Jun 21st, 2023 10m 39s

This week EURACTIV'S health team explores why fertility is decreasing across the globe, what challenges people face when they want children and the situation of fertility treatments in Europe. For that, Health Reporter Marta Iraola talks with D

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: a silent threat for children's development

Jun 14th, 2023 14m 7s

This week, EURACTIV’s health team dives into how endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) can affect children, especially in their most important developmental years. They talk with Doctor Anders Juul, a paediatric endocrinologist at Rigshospitalet

Much more than a ‘party drug’

Jun 7th, 2023 35m 43s

Psilocybin, MDMA or LSD might associate with party drugs but their therapeutic value is being discovered worldwide. Ian Roullier took part in two clinical trials that looked at the effects of psilocybin on depression. Through his personal exper

The need to phase out tobacco farming

May 31st, 2023 16m 47s

Tobacco is responsible for 8 million deaths a year but despite that governments across the world spend millions supporting tobacco farms, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus. As 31 May marks World No Tobacco Day, EURACTIV’s h

Mental health matters in the Parliament

May 24th, 2023 14m 9s

From psychedelics and mental health literature to having pets in EU institutions - EURACTIV’s health reporter Giedrė Peseckytė is talking with three MEPs - Maria Walsh from Christian Democrats, Mikuláš Peksa from the Greens and Karen Melchior f

The Importance of early testing

May 17th, 2023 21m 26s

As this week is European Testing Week, a European campaign that aims to increase testing efforts and promote awareness of the benefits of earlier hepatitis and HIV testing, EURACTIV's health team is talking with Jens Lundgren, Professor of infe

Discovering Monderna's new landscape for vaccines in Europe

May 10th, 2023 11m 26s

This week, EURACTIV’s health team talks with Chantal Friebertshäuser, Senior Vice President at Moderna for Europe, the Middle East and Canada. They discuss the end of COVID and the new vaccine they are developing against cancer. They also talk

Unwrapping the new pharmaceutical legislation

May 3rd, 2023 13m 51s

This week, EURACTIV’s health team dives into the proposal for a new pharmaceutical legislation and the complicated way ahead. For that, they talk with stakeholders working on health policy at the EU level about their priorities and main concern

Out of REACH

Apr 26th, 2023 11m 11s

This week, EURACTIV’s health team dives into endocrine disruptors and the effect these chemicals can have on our hormonal system. They talk with Doctor Angel Nadal, professor of physiology at the University Miguel Hernandez in Spain, about the

Fact checking The Whale’s obesity portrayal

Apr 19th, 2023 12m 8s

This week, EURACTIV’s journalist Marta Iraola talks about the movie ‘The Whale’ with Jacqueline Bowman-Busato, head of policy at the European Association for the Study of Obesity. They focus on the controversies about its portrayal of obesity

The crime of passing the pill

Apr 5th, 2023 16m 54s

This week, EURACTIV’s journalist Giedrė Peseckytė is talking with a Polish pro-abortion activist Justyna Wydrzynska who got sentenced in mid-March to eight months of community service for sharing abortion pills with another woman back in 2020.

Ukraine's fight against TB

Mar 29th, 2023 20m

Marking world Tuberculosis day (24 March) we are talking with two Ukrainians about how Ukrainians are fighting not only Russia's invasion but also one of the highest incidences of TB cases in the European region.

The EU rules for sperm in SoHo

Mar 22nd, 2023 12m

This week, EURACTIV’s health team explores the outstanding revision of the EU framework on substances of human origins (SoHo) together with Annemette Arndal-Lauritzen, CEO of the European Sperm Bank, with a focus on the revision of the EU rules

Unboxing the EU’s medical devices rules

Mar 15th, 2023 15m 11s

This week, EURACTIV's health journalists Marta Iraola and Gerardo Fortuna dig into the troubled implementation of the new framework for medical devices in Europe which entered into force in 2021. When developers of medical devices started exper

Talking women's health with Kyriakides

Mar 8th, 2023 16m 31s

This week, EURACTIV’s journalists Clara Bauer and Gerardo Fortuna sat with the EU’s health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to talk about women’s health on the occasion of International Women’s Day. The EU health chief also gave some anticipation

The Health Data Revolution

Mar 2nd, 2023 15m 33s

This week, EURACTIV’s health team brings you the nitty-gritty of the European Health Data Space together with one of the European Parliament's rapporteur on the file, the centre-right Croatian MEP Tomislav Sokol

Ongoing Pfizer saga

Feb 22nd, 2023 15m 16s

This week, EURACTIV's health team dig into the European Parliament’s role in the ongoing saga on the transparency of the COVID-19 vaccine contracts between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer with MEP Tilly Metz.

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