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This entrepreneur says AI can take better care of your health

In partnership with Accenture

Dr Loubna Bouarfa, CEO of AI healthcare company, Okra, describes her vision of what our health could look like in the future with Artificial Intelligence on our side.

Europe News

Number of teenagers seeking psychiatric help soars amid pandemic

Youngsters being hospitalised for mental disorders, including depression and schizophrenia, have tripled in Belgium over the past year.

World News

Pandemic unemployment leaving more without health insurance

Elina is a migrant in Austria. She used to work as an English teacher in Vienna. When the pandemic struck she lost her job. Now she is pregnant in a foreign country, without a job and without health insurance.

United Kingdom

New book aims to help people who lost smell and taste due to COVID

A cookery book developed with sensory scientists hopes to bring back the joy of cooking for people who have lost their taste or smell due to COVID.

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Ocean

The ocean, a source of treatment for some of the world's worst diseases

In partnership with the European Commission

The ocean could hold the cure to the worst threats to public health. Researchers and experts are using some of the most unknown marine bioresources to make compounds to improve our health and they're doing so without damaging the sea.

Ocean

The ocean's microalgae and cyanobacteria: potential cures for disease

In partnership with the European Commission

Some cyanobacteria and microalgae have existed in the oceans for more than 3.5 billion years and they may hold the key to defeating some of humanity's deadliest diseases.

Travel News

How will COVID anxiety impact the travel industry in 2021 and beyond?

The return to travel is largely considered something to celebrate. But concerns about the physical and mental health implications are normal after more than a year of lockdowns. We find out why.

World News

WHO 'afraid' many European children didn't get routine jabs amid COVID

The WHO told Euronews it is "afraid" that fewer Europeans got routine vaccinations for serious diseases, like measles, during the pandemic, which could lead to outbreaks down the line.

Health news

How a smart thermometer saw COVID-19 coming before the experts

“What we were seeing in March was an unusual outbreak everywhere, a complete black swan event,” Kinsa founder and CEO Indra Singh told Euronews.

Romania

Mental health concerns as pandemic increases children's screen time

The pandemic has increased the time children and teenagers are spending online. But experts warn that it is leaving children vulnerable to a host of negative consequences, like bullying, addictions and cyber predators.

Spain

The mental toll for health workers on Spain's coronavirus frontline

Pablo is a nurse in Madrid's La Paz hospital. He worked on the frontline of COVID-19 during the first pandemic. He had no idea the toll it would take on his mental health.

World News

The EU's ambitious €5 billion health programme: What's it all about?

EU4Health is the biggest financed health programme ever. It's an EU initiative to improve health systems across the bloc and make them ready for any further health crisis. Its EU rapporteurs tell us what it's all about.

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Combating the COVID-19 across borders: Japan’s multilateral approach to the global pandemic crisis

Partner content presented by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Countries around the globe are taking comprehensive measures to respond to COVID-19, but this is a crisis that cannot be solved by nations acting alone.

Euronews Debates

Euronews debates: What's the future of healthcare post-COVID-19?

What's the future of healthcare? Are you going to become your own doctor? Can AI beat the world's biggest diseases? Are hospitals as we know them going to disappear? What are the breakthrough technologies which will transform medicine in the next decade?

France

France recommends reserving AstraZeneca vaccine for over 55s

Despite resuming the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, France's health authority has recommended reserving it for people aged 55 and over.

Work

Spain poised to trial four-day working week

Spain could become one of the first countries in the world to trial a four-day working week.

Smart Regions

European software helps fight the pandemic by speeding up drug production

In partnership with the European Commission

A European software is enabling researchers to speed up drug production by interpreting chemical compounds and molecules on a range of laboratory machines. Pharmaceutical companies working on COVID-19 vaccines use it every day.

Partner content

Innovators in Japan are developing new technologies to counter coronavirus

Partner content presented by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, the world is searching for new measures that will minimize the risk of infection while allowing essential institutions such as hospitals, government, and schools to continue to function.

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Robotic assistance has the potential to play a key role in the fight against COVID-19

Partner content presented by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

The coronavirus pandemic has presented enormous challenges to healthcare providers, businesses, governments, and to the general public.

Business Planet

Smart solution: how business clusters drive innovation

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet heads to Iasi in Romania to see how one tech company got its pharmacy app off the ground thanks to being part of a cluster.