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EIB, European Commission, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commit €1.1 Billion to Eradicate Polio and Advance Global Health Innovation

(IN BRIEF) The European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have unveiled a groundbreaking financing partnership aimed at addressing global health challenges. The partnership, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and … Read the full press release

EIB and UN Agencies Team Up to Drive Climate and Social Projects Worldwide

(IN BRIEF) The European Investment Bank (EIB) and five United Nations (UN) institutions have signed an agreement to enhance their collaboration on projects aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals. This agreement allows the EIB to directly finance technical assistance and … Read the full press release

EU Takes Action to Protect Human Health and Biodiversity with Stricter Air Quality Standards

(IN BRIEF) The Environment Committee of the European Parliament has adopted its position to improve air quality in the EU, aiming to create a cleaner and healthier environment. The report sets stricter limit and target values for pollutants such as … Read the full press release

Researchers urge countries to intensify efforts to eliminate HIV and HCV in high-risk populations

(IN BRIEF) New research led by the University of Bristol shows that countries need to improve their tracking of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence among people who inject drugs, in order to meet the UNAIDS and WHO targets … Read the full press release

Ozone pollution causes substantial hospital admissions for heart attack, heart failure and stroke

(IN BRIEF) The European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), has published a new study revealing that surpassing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ozone limit is associated with significant increases in hospital admissions for heart … Read the full press release

More markets around the world approve the Chr. Hansen’s Human Milk Oligosaccharides for infant formula

(PRESS RELEASE) HOERSHOLM, Denmark, 12-Sep-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Chr Hansen Holding A/S (CPH: CHR), a Danish bioscience company that develops natural ingredient solutions for the food, nutritional, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, has announced new regulatory approvals around the world for … Read the full press release

QIAGEN gibt neue Meilensteine für seinen Tuberkulose-Test QuantiFERON bekannt

HILDEN, Deutschland, GERMANTOWN, Maryland (USA), und SHANGHAI, China, 7-Feb-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — QIAGEN NV (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), ein deutscher Anbieter von Sample-to-Insights-Lösungen, die es Kunden ermöglichen, Einblicke in die Bausteine des Lebens – DNA, RNA und Proteine … Read the full press release

QIAGEN announces new milestones for its QuantiFERON tuberculosis test

(PRESS RELEASE) HILDEN, Germany / GERMANTOWN, MD, United Staes / SHANGHAI, 7-Feb-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), a German provider of Sample to Insights solutions that enable customers to unlock insights from the building … Read the full press release

Merck hits the 1.5 billionth mark of praziquantel donation in partnership with the World Health Organization for the treatment of neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa

(PRESS RELEASE) DARMSTADT, 24-Jan-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Merck (ETR: MRK), a German multinational leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science, electronics, has announced the company hit a milestone mark in its donation of praziquantel for the treatment of … Read the full press release

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative: first all-oral treatment for Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) gets US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval

(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 20-Jul-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Sanofi (EPA: SAN), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health, has announced fexinidazole approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the first all-oral treatment for both stages of the … Read the full press release

Sanofi launches more impactful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy

Accelerating projects on access to medicines, support for vulnerable communities, environmental conservation, and diversity and inclusion Creation of Sanofi Global Health, global nonprofit unit to provide 40 of the world’s poorest countries access to 30 essential medicines (PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 7-Apr-2021 — … Read the full press release

COVID 19: KfW Development Bank to finance four hospitals in Iraq to help them prepare for the peak of the pandemic expected in autumn

(PRESS RELEASE) FRANKFURT, 10-Aug-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Frankfurt, Germany based KfW Development Bank (KfW Entwicklungsbank GmbH) has announced it will provide funding for four hospitals in Iraq on behalf of the Federal Government. Funds will be used to help prepare … Read the full press release

COVID-19: Henkel converts Düsseldorf site to produce disinfectants for donation to hospitals and public institutions

Henkel to provide production capacities at short notice in order to produce disinfectants (PRESS RELEASE) DÜSSELDORF, 2-Apr-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Henkel will provide production capacities at short notice in order to produce disinfectants as part of its global solidarity program … Read the full press release

NORMA Group CEO Dr. Michael Schneider currently receiving medical treatment for COVID-19; COO Dr. Friedrich Klein temporarily assumes CEO role

Dr. Michael Schneider cannot perform his tasks for the time being COO Dr. Friedrich Klein temporarily assumes the tasks of the CEO Management’s ability to act is ensured (PRESS RELEASE) MAINTAL, 24-Mar-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Dr. Michael Schneider, Chairman of … Read the full press release

PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting

PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting

EMA, MHRA and FDA among regulatory agencies participating (PRESS RELEASE) BERLIN, 10-Jun-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) is excited to host its 4th Annual European Meeting: Global Healthcare of the Present and the Future, June 25-26 in … Read the full press release

Wellcome and WHO to bring together leading scientists and researchers to invigorate nutrition science

LONDON, 27-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Wellcome and the World Health Organization (WHO) are holding an expert meeting this autumn to bring together leading scientists and promising early-career researchers to invigorate nutrition science. ‘Transforming Nutrition Science for Better Health’ will be held … Read the full press release

Novartis extends agreement with the WHO for the donation of Egaten® for the treatment of liver fluke

Novartis extends agreement with the WHO for the donation of Egaten® for the treatment of liver fluke, a neglected tropical disease, also known as fascioliasis, that infects more than 2.4 million people globally[1] Since the start of the donation program in … Read the full press release

Wellcome supports rapid response to the new Ebola outbreak in Congo with initial fund of up to £2 million

LONDON, 14-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Wellcome is making an initial fund of up to £2 million available to support a rapid response to the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The pledge comes after the DRC … Read the full press release

Two African scientists named new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University, Sweden

Umeå, Sweden, 27-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Two African scientists become new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University, Sweden. They are Julia Goedecke at the University of Cape Town and the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom … Read the full press release

LIH’s Emilie Charpentier on a capacity building mission at WHO National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella in Belgrade, Serbia

Between 25th and 28th April 2016, Emilie Charpentier, senior technician in the Clinical and Applied Virology research group at LIH’s Department of Infection and Immunity, conducted a capacity building mission at the World Health Organisation (WHO) National Reference Laboratory for … Read the full press release

European Science Foundation published report on pilot study of the career paths of post-doctorates and doctorate alumni from five research funding and research performing organisations

Strasbourg Cedex, FRANCE, 3-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — ESF has just published a report on a pilot study of the career paths of post-doctorates and doctorate alumni from five research funding and research performing organisations: AXA Research Fund (AXA RF), France, … Read the full press release

Commission welcomes positive outcome of WHO conference with signature of a protocol to stop illicit trade on tobacco

Brussels, 20-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — A Protocol on the Elimination of the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the main achievement of a conference in … Read the full press release