Health

EU moves closer to counting calories in alcoholic drinks

Health conscious tipplers may be closer to finding out just how many calories they are imbibing as consumer advocates push for EU nutritional labelling on alcoholic drinks in the face of strong industry resistance.

Neuroscience

Human Brain Project review panel recommends reforms

(Medical Xpress)—A panel created to review the way the European Human Brain Project is being run has released a summary of their recommendations—in it the panel members suggest that several reforms must be made in order ...

Oncology & Cancer

New ovarian cancer drug Lynparza one step closer

Ovarian cancer patients throughout Europe and the United States could soon be treated with a new drug discovered through pioneering research at the University of Sheffield funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU partners with pharmaceutical industry to fight Ebola

The EU will partner with the European pharmaceutical industry to finance 215 million euros in research projects to fight Ebola, mainly to develop vaccines and diagnostic tests, it announced Friday.

Health

EU food labels to help allergy sufferers

New EU labelling rules taking effect Saturday require restaurants and other businesses to tell customers if their food could trigger allergies or raise other health concerns.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU calls for 5,000 doctors to fight Ebola

The European Commission called for 5,000 doctors to be sent from EU states to combat west Africa's Ebola epidemic, a European source with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU boosts Ebola aid for west Africa to 1.0 billion euros

European Union leaders agreed Friday to boost aid to combat the deadly Ebola virus in west Africa to one billion euros ($1.26 billion), EU president Herman Van Rompuy said.

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