Articles

Rare cancer care: Are European Reference Networks delivering on the promise?

What value can collaboration between EU member states add to the quality of care accessible to all EU citizens? It’s a question that has become urgent and topical with the coronavirus pandemic, and one that EU4Health, the EU’s new funding programme “for a healthier and safer Union”, presented at the end of May, seeks to […]

Articles

On a mission to beat cancer

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind – the words Neil Armstrong pronounced as he completed humankind’s first mission to the moon, will – if the European Commission gets its way – soon be pronounced for other missions. Both ‘other missions’ and ‘soon’ need qualifiers: ‘soon’ would mean within a decade, maximum, […]

Articles

Evidence-based medicine and precision medicine – irreconcilable or inseparable? 

“Medicine cannot be learned quickly, because it is impossible for there to exist any established method in it, as for example when someone who has learned to write in one way that is taught then understands everything. Medicine from one moment to the next does things that are opposite, and it does opposite things for […]