Obesity is one of the most serious health challenges facing Europe today. European Union (EU) citizens are exercising too little and eating too much - too much energy, too many calories, too much fat and sugar, and salt. The main

The Network of Estonian Non-profit Orgnaisations (NENO), in cooperation with EPHA, is organising a Summer School on Networking, in Estonia from 8 to 9 September 2006. The Summer School is organised annually for NGO's in Estonia on current issues. This

Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) organised a conference focusing on participatory democracy in EU on 12 July, 2006. EPHA's Latvian-based project coordinator and her colleague from Civic Alliance Latvia (CAL) attended the event. The overall aim of the conference was

The Latvian government has introduced thougher litmits to the availability of unhealthy foods at schools and kindergardens by establishing nutrient profiles. Existing health and safety legislation regarding schools and kindergardens, introduced by the Ministry of Health, has been amended to

A proposal to update the EU's 1989 "TV without Frontiers" Directive, to keep pace with rapid market developments in Europe's audiovisual sector, was tabled by the European Commission in December 2005. Among other things, it will regulate advertising on television.

In June 2006, Ministers of Health of the 25 Member States adopted common values and principles which are to guide EU health systems. The conclusions of the Council follows the exclusion of healthcare services from the scope of the Services

In response to DG SANCO's call for proposals under the EU Public Health Programme, EPHA submittted a major project proposal in May 2003 entitled 'Building the public health community across Europe'. EPHA is looking for partners to carry out joint

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's experimental vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer could cut the number of cases and deaths from the illness by up to 76 percent, the drug company said on Monday.

As promised earlier this month, Microsoft have launched the beta test of the XNA Game Studio Express development platform, which MS claim will empower budding amateur game creators and small teams lacking the resources of major developers. The platform not

Call of Duty: Finest Hour creators Spark Unlimited are hard at work on their new opus, a brand new first-person shooter, which will be called Fall of Liberty. The studio clearly has series-esque ambitions of the new title, and Codemasters

Rockstar Games, who recently had their controversial prank 'em up Bully passed for sale in Australia, have apparently changed the name of the controversial action title altogether. Canis Canem Edit will apparently be the new label given to the PS2

Following a report this week in the US edition of the official PlayStation magazine, rumours began circulating across the interweb that a brand new PSP is currently being created at Sony. The article, which caused quite a stir in curtain

Doing little to head-off critics of the PSP - disappointed with the lack of original titles being crafted for Sony's handheld - EA have announced a compilation pack of games for the system, with titles harvested in the main from

What a difficult headline this is to quantify, despite the assurances of 3D Realms' George Broussard who spoke on the ShackNews forums this week responding to chatter that loads of staff were quitting the developer and heading for pastures new,

All that hard work finally paid off Sunday for Vijay Singh, who shot the best round of his PGA Tour career and put himself in ...

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The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before Sept. 11, according to a study based on Justice Department data. The surprising decline followed a sharp increase in such criminal prosecutions