Patient patients in Europe: kid gloves come off
4% of Europeans received medical treatment in another member state in 2006-2007, according to Eurobarometer, and 1% of public healthcare budgets (10 billion euros) a year is spent on cross-border healthcare. There are no EU laws on European patients rights in general though. From dying in Slovenia to migrating doctors via France and Romania, to the HIV virus which has pinned an era in health, a look at some of the medical topics affecting young Europeans today, featuring three finalists of the second EU health prize for journalists
Preparing to die in Slovenia’s first hospice institution
For the first time in its 15 years of existence, the Žargi association will offer all-round care to nine dying and terminally ill patients in Ljubljana, with construction financed by the City of Ljubljana’s housing fund. Petra Mlakar explores
Aids: the HIV carrier criminals in Europe
In Scotland and Guyana Mark Devereaux and Alain Prosper respectively get ten years imprisonment. In France another man gets a five-year sentence, spending at least eighteen months behind bars. What do these criminals have in common?
Where did all the Romanian doctors and French med students go?
Mobility within the European Union also applies to the medical sphere, resulting in a freedom which leads to problems as well as advantages. Celia Laherre on the failings of medicine without borders
Medicine’s new dot-com revolution
From clinical trial recruitment and virtual medical schools to online diagnosis and the use of cloud computing to store medical records, web 2.0 is throwing up some exciting and frightening possibilities, says Gary Finnegan
Sweden and Norway are anti-junk food leaders
Whilst the rest of Europe only catches up now. Our waist circumference is suffocating us, and the battle against obesity remains a major issue in the early 21st century. Junk food: tastes so good, but is so wrong...
