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5 February 2008

Life in Europe to become ambient assisted

Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care
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30 January 2008

Building Europe’s e-health market

The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General ICT for Health team speaks to E-Health Europe about the lead market
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30 January 2008

EU Parliament amends assisted living project

Members of the European Parliament have stressed that the new Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme must be cost effective and
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28 January 2008

EC to hold e-health management workshop

The European Commission is to hold a workshop on e-health management, organised by the ePractice.eu portal – the EC’s web
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23 January 2008

Gene analysis site launches in Europe

The 23andMe kit now available across Europe A new consumer genetic test website, 23andMe, launched in Europe this week.  The
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22 January 2008

EC acts to ease computer-assisted translation

The European Commission has translated a collection of around one million sentences into 22 of the 23 official languages of
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9 January 2008

Commission plans to accelerate e-health market

The European Commission has published a new strategy aimed at accelerating the growth of the e-health market in Europe.
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27 December 2007

EC may reconsider patient information rules

The European Commission is considering tabling legislation next year that would change the rules on the information that drug companies
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20 December 2007

EU tables proposals for health single market

The European Commission says EU citizens will be allowed to opt to receive healthcare in any member state, under new
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13 December 2007

Agfa-Gevaert appoints new CEO

Jo Cornu, CEO of Agfa-Gevaert NV The board of directors of Agfa-Gevaert has appointed Jo Cornu as chief executive officer of
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