New guidance issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on medical devices aims to streamline procedures, but integrating technologies into healthcare systems remains challenging, warns Polish industry.

A new wave of radioligand therapies is approaching. With healthcare systems and policymakers ill-equipped to handle the change, Belgium is launching an action plan.

The Polish Ministry of Health has implemented a daily system for monitoring the prescription and dispensing of opioids following increasing reports of fentanyl use in the country.

Concerns have been raised about the relative effectiveness of an increasing number of new medicines at the time of their market authorisation, a spokesperson for outgoing Dutch Medical Care Minister Pia Dijkstra told Euractiv.

Bulgaria continues to experience serious medicine supply problems, leading caretaker Health Minister Galya Kondeva to extend the export ban on antibiotics for children, insulin and blood sugar-lowering drugs until mid-July.

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Carrying rainbow flags and dancing through the streets, thousands of Hungarians celebrated the annual Budapest Pride parade on Saturday (22 June) and vowed to keep protesting over the government's anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Israel's military pounded Gaza on Saturday (22 June), a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Apple is halting the rollout of three new features in the European Union, citing "regulatory uncertainties" caused by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the tech giant announced on Friday (21 June).