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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…

7 months ago

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…

8 months ago

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,…

10 months ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

2 years ago

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),…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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,…

2 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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/ —…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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)…

5 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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,…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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,…

6 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

11 years ago