How Denmark led the way on 'sin taxes'

Over one third of the European population above the age of 15 have a chronic disease.

Obesity may be considered a disability if it affects how a person does their job, the EU's top court said Thursday

Athens and its creditors are guilty of "denialism" about the scale of the public health crisis caused by the country's harsh austerity programme, medical researchers have claimed.

The metal box in Hugo Campos’ chest keeps him alive. It also collects data. Who owns it and how they use it is posing questions for EU lawmakers.

Europeans are living longer but health inequalities between men and women, countries and population segments are in some cases getting worse.

Speculators are threatening the supply of medication to countries worst hit by the sovereign debt crisis, according to research by business analysts GlobalData.

The EU and other Western governments are putting children at risk by refusing to back a robust treaty on the safer use of mercury.

The Spanish government on Friday approved €10 billion worth of spending cuts and increased fees for education and health.

Belgian national Walter De Brouwer recently moved to Sillicon Valley to build a handheld medical device that monitors your health from a distance. Europeans are too cautious to make such devices, he says.

Healthcare, strictly speaking, is none of the EU’s business. On e-health, therefore, much of the Brussels oeuvre consists of communications, recommendations, action plans, conferences and the odd pilot project. But even that seems too ambitious.

The EU is pushing for a union-wide system of easily exchangeable electronic health records, which should be in place by 2015.

The town hospital of Guriceel, Somalia, is understaffed. The doctors who once worked there have all but fled the fighting that mars the country since decades. Those who remain often lack in education. But they do have an internet connection.