EPHA response to the WHO Draft Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030 Alcohol is not an ordinary commodity; it is a psychoactive substance with dependence-producing properties. The European Region is not spared by alcohol-related harms with alcohol consumption being one...
Guest article: Marleen Kestens and Marilena Vrana, European Heart Network The European Union Beating Cancer Plan is putting – rightly so – an important focus on disease prevention. Prevention is far more cost efficient than treatment and cure (needed in...
Guest Article: Helen Oswald, Communication Manager, European Oncology Nursing Society The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan Cancer nursing education and patient and occupational safety go hand in hand and are critical for...
Brussels 10 March 2021 A new report, launched today reveals the continued and extensive contacts between the tobacco industry, its allies and pro-vaping groups and industry associations, and eight separate Directorates-General (DGs) of the European Commission (EC);...
EPHA has joined a number of organisations led by EPHA member the Anticancer Fund calling for the repurposing of various drugs already widely used for non-cancer diseases which have shown promise for the treatment of cancer, allowing new cancer treatments to be...
