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Health-EU Newsletter
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Your gateway to trustworthy information on public health
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In this edition
- 20 July 2017
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Twitter Health
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Editorial
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Bring back great memories from your summer holidays – not skin cancer!
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Luxembourg Minister of Health Lydia Mutsch discusses the message and relevancy of the new campaign launched in Luxembourg to help raise public awareness about skin cancer. The Luxembourg Ministry of Health, the European Association of Dermato Oncology and the Société Luxembourgeoise de Dermato-Vénérologie are the campaign's promoters.
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Key figures
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Project in the Picture
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EPIDERM - European Prevention Initiative for Dermatological Malignancies
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EPIDERM aims to acquire and disseminate knowledge on skin cancers, looking at their occurrence, risk factors and treatments as well as the costs of illness in order to help develop prevention and risk reduction strategies and best practice recommendations.
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News from the EU
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Commission adopts new EU One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance
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The plan supports the EU and its Member States in delivering innovative, effective and sustainable responses to AMR; strategically reinforces the research agenda on AMR and enables the EU to actively promote global action and play a leading role in the fight against AMR.
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Aluminium in toys: public consultation on the SCHEER Preliminary Opinion
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The Commission and the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks have launched a public consultation on the preliminary Opinion on tolerable intake of aluminium in order to determine the acceptable levels of aluminium counts in toys. Deadline: 10 September 2017.
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Potential risks to health of LEDs: public consultation on the SCHEER Preliminary Opinion
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The Commission and the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks have launched a public consultation on the preliminary Opinion on potential risks to human health of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Deadine: 17 September 2017.
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Submit your good practices in the field of mental health to the EU-Compass
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The EU-Compass is looking for good practices in mental health at workplaces, mental health in schools and prevention of suicide - Submit your good practice example for evaluation by 15 August 2017.
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Video presentations available from workshop on new partnerships for EU action on vaccination
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Presentations include those by Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety; Philippe Duclos, Senior Adviser at WHO; Heather Deehan from the Supply Division of UNICEF and Johan van Hoof, Global Head IDV Research and Development, representing Vaccines Europe.
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Pilot project on the Promotion of Self-Care Systems in the EU comes to successful close
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The main aim of the PiSCE Project was to promote self-care and healthcare. See the video for more!
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Deadline nears: Call for tender for Single Framework Contract to provide services to support the assessment of characterising flavours in tobacco products
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The Commission is setting up a Technical Group of Sensory and Chemical Assessors to carry out the practical sensory and chemical assessments of tobacco products and to help develop the methodology to be used for the technical assessment of these test products. Deadline: 11 August.
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Independent Scientific Experts sought for Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee
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The Commission is launching a selection procedure to appoint the Independent Scientific Experts to the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee of the European Medicines Agency. Apply by 30 September 2017.
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Luxembourg Ministry of Health thanks Health Security Committee for boosting Member States' level of preparedness at June 29 plenary
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Luxembourg Health Minister Lydia Mutsch thanked the Health Security Committee for giving decision-makers the necessary guidance to take actions in the best interests of their health systems and citizens. The Health Security Committee addresses health threats like terrorism, antimicrobial resistance and pandemics.
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Forthcoming events
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World Hepatitis Day (28 July 2017)
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World Hepatitis Day 2017 will help accelerate progress towards achieving the goal of eliminating hepatitis B and C by 2030 (adopted by 194 governments at the 69th World Health Assembly. Take up the call to action and join the 'Show Your Face' campaign!
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GENCAD Conference 2: Gender and health – awareness, facts, and European perspectives (Brussels, 11 October 2017)
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EU Press Releases
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Endocrine disruptors: major step towards protecting citizens and environment
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On 4 July 2017, Member States representatives voted in favour of the European Commission's proposal on scientific criteria to identify endocrine disruptors in the field of plant protection products. This is a major step towards better protecting citizens from harmful substances.
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Endocrine disruptors: Frequently Asked Questions
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EU Member States have voted in favour of draft criteria to define endocrine disruptors in the area of plant protection products proposed by the European Commission. What does the vote mean, and what exactly are endocrine disruptors? See this factsheet for more!
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European Solidarity Corps: jobs and traineeships on track
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Half a year after the European Commission launched the European Solidarity Corps and following the matching of voluntary placements which started in March 2017, thousands of job and traineeship placements are now also kicking off.
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New publications
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Final report on the Workshop "Seeking new partnerships for EU action on vaccination"
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The report from workshop is now available in all EU languages.
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