An electronic health platform enabling clinical records to be exchanged between centres

Today the Health Ministers of the EU adopted the Council Recommendation on strengthened cooperation against vaccine preventable diseases focused on three main pillars: tackling vaccine hesitancy and improving vaccination coverage; sustainable vaccination policies in the EU; and EU coordination and contribution to global health. The Recomm...

Photovoltaic (PV) systems, which harvest sustainable and clean energy from the sun, accumulate dirt or particles like dust, water and sand. This build-up leads to a reduction in the light energy reaching the solar cells and lowers their power output by up to 50 %, according to some studies. Therefore, it’s crucial to keep them clean. However,...

If a chemical does not bioaccumulate and is not highly toxic, do we need to worry about it building up in the environment?After PFOS and PFOA manufacture was discontinued due to fears about potential health effects, companies had to find substitutes that could provide the same technical benefits of perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs.T...

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) organises a two-day conference to discuss the link between working environment and female cancer including the contribution by EU-OSHA on its findings and activities. The conference, taking place in Brussels on 4th and 5th of December, also looks into how women with cancer struggle with discrimination.Under...

t scale up protocols. However, both aspects of the material production and the economics of the scale-up need to be considered. There is no point in having a highly efficient material if it is at a price point that is too expensive for the end-user (the potential paying customer). Likewise, if a material is lower cost but sub-standard in its qualit...