Mental health
Von der Leyen: ‘My heart bleeds’ over social media health effects
Politicians across Europe and the U.S. have raised the alarm over social media’s digital harm to kids.
Smartphone ban to hit Belgium’s Francophone schools
Survey reveals surge in burnout and suicidal thoughts among ECB staff
Labour’s top policy priorities
Letter from Ukraine: How will my mom survive if I’m drafted?
Dutch panel recommends MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder
Toxic bullying claims blow up Brussels’ biggest health NGO
EU hits Meta with new probe over ‘addictive’ algorithms harming children
Brussels targets social media giant over so-called rabbit holes.
French digital industry braces for crackdown on kids’ screentime
Social platforms and smartphone manufacturers are lobbying hard to stem the next wave of regulation.
Broken links and bad advice: Conversations with SARAH, WHO’s virtual health aide
One NGO is calling for SARAH to be taken down arguing it could jeopardize people’s health with inaccurate responses.
EU Commission holds bring-your-pet-to-work days — but attack dogs are banned
Officials told to ‘consider teleworking’ if they’re scared or allergic to dogs.
Freed Belgian aid worker sets up fund to ‘protect the protectors’
Olivier Vandecasteele was jailed in Iran for more than a year, and now wants to help fellow aid workers.
Spanish MEP reprimanded for harassing parliamentary assistant
Centrist lawmaker José Ramón Bauzá receives slap on the wrist for ‘psychological harassment’ of former aide.
EU goes after TikTok over child protection
EU probes ‘rabbit hole effect’ and addictive design on popular video sharing app.
30 things Joe Biden did as president you might have missed
Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.
EU targets online influencers’ growing power
Belgium is talking up ways to get online content creators to behave.
EU funds first psychedelic study, in patients with incurable diseases
Magic mushrooms trial gets underway.
Israel’s first responders struggling to heal 100 days on from October 7
‘When we tried picking up the bones, the bones turned to ash,’ says an Israeli first responder recalling the Hamas attack a hundred days ago.
How Brussels is grappling (or not) with climate grief
Policy wonks are struggling with daily despair of climate news and the glacial pace of political action.
Britain’s homelessness crisis returns to parliament’s doorstep
The number of rough sleepers in Westminster is surging — and it’s part of a wider national problem.
Giuliani ordered to pay $148M for spreading lies about Georgia election workers
A jury handed down the whopping judgment in favor of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who were besieged by harassment after Rudy Giuliani falsely accused them of ballot fraud.
Biden is making a big push for more mining in US. Here’s how it could disrupt health care.
Good mining jobs with good benefits can counterintuitively hurt access to care.
Let HIV communities lead
Ongoing HIV stigma hampers testing, treatment and prevention. Multilayered impacts necessitate community initiatives and the dismantling of discriminatory laws for effective collaboration, which are essential for achieving HIV elimination goals.
Fewer pills please: Stop prescribing antidepressants for mild symptoms, say doctors
Nearly 1 in 5 British adults are prescribed antidepressants.
Ukrainian MP tells MEPs country should be test bed for psychedelics
Dmytro Gurin said that therapies based on drugs such as MDMA could treat soaring rates of post-traumatic stress disorder.
A united front against the global brain health emergency
Aging populations are leading to a rise in brain disorders. Our health systems are not ready to cope.
Atopic dermatitis: Timely access is needed now
AD is perceived as a children’s disease, but it has severe, long-lasting implications for patients and caregivers, as well as affecting the wider economy. We need to do more – immediately.
Seeing more than HIV: A person-centered approach to HIV care
There’s more to the experience of living with HIV than suppressing the virus. Listening, valuing and integrating patient voices in HIV care is critical to leave no one behind.
Specter of US-style system hangs over Europe’s health leaders
The health workforce crisis is driving a move toward the private sector and threatening to undermine solidarity-based systems.
Von der Leyen accidentally went up against Biden on health — and lost
It was opposites day for the health agenda.