What the EU’s health priorities should be from next year - according to ⁦Sandra Gallina⁩ @CaraCostongs ⁦M⁩ and others at #EHFG

The next EU Health Commissioner should be of health and food, and not only health and food safety, said @CaraCostongs at #EHFG, raising concerns over rates of obesity among children and associated diseases

Taking moderating tips from Belle de Jong's excellent leadership at the #WorldMentalHealthDay conference today. 👏

⁦Ashleigh Furlong⁩ kicks off our #POLITICOHealthSummit with ⁦Jeremy Farrar⁩ chief scientist at ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩

Yet another reason to tackle climate change: “Warming seas breads bacteria,” Aleksandra Kazmierczak of EU EnvironmentAgency tells Ashleigh Furlong. “There are increasing number of cases of this flesh eating bacteria, especially in the Baltic Sea.” #POLITICOHealthCare

.World Health Organization (WHO) has managed to get in touch with health professionals at the Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The situation is dire and perilous. It's been 3 days without electricity, without water and with very poor internet which has severely impacted our ability to provide essential

“The big challenge for biosimilars is that these are in specialty areas,” Adrian van den Hoven tells Carlo Martuscelli. They bring competition and increase access, he said. They have increased access by 50% #UnlockingBiosimilars

How many biosimilars are available today? There are 20 molecules where we have a biosimilar available; and 80 biosimilars in total, IQVIA UK’s Max Newton tells Carlo Martuscelli #UnlockingBiosimilars

Only 3% of orphan biologics have a biosimilar in the pipeline, IQVIA UK’s Max Newton tells Carlo Martuscelli. “These can be products that are relatively high value,” he said. #UnlockingBiosimilars

Pharma regulation rapporeur Tiemo Wolken quotes Politico on the floor of ENVI during the vote: "Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. And art it is, because many didn’t think it was possible for the European Parliament to reach a deal on the pharmaceutical package"

Rishi Sunak's flagship anti-smoking legislation will be lost as a result of the snap election. Govt sources confirming there is no mechanism for pushing through a free vote bill in the pre-election wash-up

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus "Today, the Emergency Committee met and advised me that in its view, the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice"-Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus #mpox x.com/WHO/status/182…

“Terrible choice. I’d say the worst we’ve ever had,” one public health policy expert said. pro.politico.eu/news/186033

And we're off! @EZaharievaMFA is up before MEPs this morning in her commissioner hearing. Follow all the live action with us here: politico.eu/article/europe…

Happening now: #POLITICOHealthSummit politico.eu/health-care-su…

“I have no personal reason to dislike him” Tomislav Sokol tells Mari Eccles on Oliver Varhelyi. “I was the one in the discussion where he called us idiots,” he said, referring to the off-mic incident in the European Parliament. #POLITICOHealthSummit

Today POLITICOEurope #POLlTICOHealthCare Summit. 🇪🇺EU health policy has changed over the past five years, in which we built a strong European Health Union. Much remains to be done. Health must remain at the top of the political agenda.

Denmark, Norway, Sweden come to Lithuania and “proactively try to attract” the country’s health workers, Health Minister Aurimas Pečkauskas told Giedrė Peseckytė at our #POLITICOHealthSummit. Europe needs to talk about the health workforce crisis, he said.