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Irene Norstedt, Acting Director for Health research at the Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation, and John F. Ryan, Director of Public Health at the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, talk about the Third Marketplace of Best Practices in Ispra, Italy, which was organised by the Steering Group on Prevention and...

The report explores the different approaches to track pharmaceutical utilisation and expenditure and to anticipate changes in pharmaceutical market dynamics. It examines how EU/EEA countries use them to inform the setting of budgets and spending caps, and as inputs to modelling future expenditure.

Today, the European Commission is launching a new version of its Union Register of medicinal products. The Union Register lists all medicinal products for human and veterinary use authorised by the Commission through the centralised procedure.

This Special Eurobarometer looks at the links between vaccination attitudes and behaviour, showing that whilst most EU citizens believe vaccination is an effective way to prevent infectious diseases, they often have misconceptions about the side effects. More findings in the full report.