EURACTIV - Hungarian universities remain barred from the EU's flagship Horizon research programme, it has no national dementia plan, and the diagnostic infrastructure the new drugs depend on barely exists. Read more
Nicole Verbeeck is an independent health journalist covering health and life sciences in Europe. Alongside her reporting, she leads an editorial studio specializing in journalism, editorial work and creative editorial formats.
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Reporting on health and life sciences in Europe for:
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EU Perspectives
European Biotechnology Magazine
APM Market Access
Editorial studio in health & life sciences
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EU PERSPECTIVES - Tariff threats are working, the president declared, crediting them with forcing pharma companies and foreign governments to accept his most-favoured-nation pricing plan. Instead of driving prices sharply lower in the US, however, it could push them up for everyone else. Read more
EU PERSPECTIVES - A mother who survives childbirth. A child who reaches their fifth birthday. This is what Dr Hans Kluge says his campaign for the world's top health job comes down to. The doctor who once treated tuberculosis in Siberian prisons is now Belgium's WHO candidate, backed by Prime Minister Bart De Wever as "someone who...
EU PERSPECTIVES - People in the Netherlands, Greece, and Italy are dying form West Nile virus infection. Europe has no specific treatment against it, Brussels has confirmed. Read more
