15.07.2012
- Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl...
11.07.2012
- The European Union's executive is due to propose new rules next week to make it easier for drug companies and researchers to carry out cross-border clinical trials, in a bid to cut...
09.06.2012
- The pharmaceutical industry hit out on Friday at "punitive" measures introduced recently by Germany to rein in medicine costs, underscoring the growing pressure being felt by...
27.04.2012
- A European Union plan to tighten drug packaging rules in a bid to stamp out counterfeits has triggered a row between makers of big name medicines and those producing cheap generics...
22.12.2011
- The European Union on Tuesday strengthened export controls on drugs that can be used to administer the death penalty, putting a further squeeze on a supply shortage that has slowed...
27.04.2011
- Germany's opening of its doors next month to a potential influx of hundreds of thousands of workers from newer EU states is unlikely to have much impact on growth or wages except...
28.03.2011
- European leaders agreed on Friday to set the "highest standards" of safety for the nuclear industry to guard against events like those unfolding at Japan's stricken Fukushima plant...
16.03.2011
- European Union governments should consider the possibility of "stress tests" on European nuclear power stations to check they meet safety requirements, the EU's Executive...
