EU cardiovascular screening can improve early detection, but stronger prevention, integrated care and healthier environments ...

The foundations for both health and disease are laid early in life – through dietary habits, physical activity patterns, exposure to tobacco and alcohol, and time spent on screens. Early prevention is ...

The EU Agri-Food Code was introduced as a flagship voluntary initiative under the Farm to Fork Strategy, with an ambition to mobilise food system actors and demonstrate measurable progress towards ...

There was plenty of ambition in Ursula von der Leyen’s 2026 State of the Union address. Europe was presented as a continent under pressure, but also one determined to stand its ground and build a bloc ...

Inmaculada C. Rodríguez-Rojo, Associate professor of nursing and Director of health promotion and emotional wellbeing, University of Alcalá (Spain) Raquel Luengo-González, Associate professor of ...

EPHA’s Health Equity Feed brings you the latest news, events, and research on health equity in Europe and beyond. This first edition of 2026 highlights how health inequities are increasingly shaped by ...

Lung cancer is the world’s biggest cancer killer. In the WHO European Region in 2021, it claimed 444,900 lives, cost societies €233 billion, and accounted for 10 million healthy years of life lost.

The revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) represents a critical opportunity to strengthen Europe’s cancer prevention agenda. Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of cancer in ...

We, healthcare workers and associations working for peace and in defense of human rights and international law, express our solidarity with Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, and those among the 37 NGOs ...

Today’s publication of the European Commission commitments to improving cardiovascular health in Europe, unveiled as “Safe Hearts Plan”, has been much anticipated and marks a significant moment for ...

EPHA’s Health Equity Feed brings you the latest news, events, and research on health equity in Europe and beyond. In October, we cover the growing emphasis on equitable, evidence-based reform, ...

Europe has made important strides in updating its ambient air quality rules and building law, but the places where we spend 90% of our lives still lack a dedicated, harmonised EU framework for indoor ...