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Coronavirus - COVID-19 (23.03.2020)

Check the EU’s response and ECDC’s assessment.

Affordable, accessible and safe medicines for all: the Commission presents a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe (25.11.2020)

The Strategy will be a key component of building a stronger European Health Union and will help establish a future-proof and crisis-resilient EU pharmaceutical system.

State of Health in the EU: The European Commission and the OECD release ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2020’ (19.11.2020)

The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe provides an in-depth analysis of European countries’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic using the latest data available.

Coronavirus: Commission steps up actions on testing with a recommendation on rapid antigen tests and support to increase testing capacity (18.11.2020)

The recommendation provides guidance on how to select rapid antigen tests, when they are appropriate and who should perform them.

Health-EU Newsletter: New actions proposed for building a stronger, more resilient European Health Union (13.11.2020)

Sandra Gallina, the European Commission’s Director General for Health and Food Safety, outlines some of the actions the Commission proposed on 11 November for building a European Health Union ready to tackle health threats of all types in a more coordinated, effective way.

EU action on health

Improving health systems

Promoting good health

Medical devices

Substances of human origin

Blood, tissues, cells and organs

Pharmaceuticals

Diseases and health threats

Risk assessment

Scientific committees

Endocrine disruptors

Endocrine disruptors

Biocides

Biocides