EPHA attended the award ceremony for DG Sanco's first EU Health Prize for Journalists. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers launched the EU Health Prize for Journalists in February 2009, as a part of the "Europe for Patients"

The EU Parliament created a special committee to assess what caused the financial crisis and what effect it had on Member States. The committee has a year mandate and will provide recommendation in a mid-year and end-year report. Several members

Fundamed (General Patients Alliance), with the support of the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) organised "Pandemic Flu : Public Health Approaches" in the European Parliament. This debate gathered doctors, nurses and vaccine manufacturer representatives, as well as European policy makers.

On 2 October, the Irish voted on the Lisbon Referendum. The Irish public has approved the EU's reform treaty with a 'yes' vote of 67.1%, very different from the vote in the 2008 referendum that delayed the Treaty's entry into

The family of a teenager wrongly given massive doses of radiation has branded a decision not to punish the doctor responsible a "whitewash".

A premature baby Poppy Davies died after being given a ''massive overdose'' of glucose following a series of blunders at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Wii Fit Plus builds on the strong foundations of its predecessor to provide a fun and varied home fitness experience.

Britain's leading health and wellbeing specialists answer your questions . This week: the backwax nightmare.

A new wave of swine flu appears to have hit Scotland after the number of people admitted to hospital with the virus increased by more than 60 per cent.