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EU Questions Electromagnetic Radiation Limits

By Peter ODonnell | Published: January 24, 2012
It is fashionable in many healthcare circles to denigrate the European Union for adopting a high-handed and inflexible approach to many of the complex issues that health policy is fated to cover. It is still more fashionable—indeed almost mandatory—to castigate the European Parliament, the EU’s self-styled representative of the people, for adopting an unrealistically cautious [...]
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Lönngren's Shadow on Rasi's Back

By Peter ODonnell | Published: July 18, 2011
Anyone who hoped the appointment of a new boss at the European Medicines Agency was going to expunge the recent unpleasantness over conflicts of interest must be disappointed by the recent appearance in the European Parliament of the chosen candidate for the post. Guido Rasi, the Executive Director-designate, spent the best part of two hours in [...]
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