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Concerns about cuts in EU4Health and Horizon Europe budgets
In early February, BioMed Alliance expressed its strong disappointment with political decisions to cut the EU4Health budget by 1 billion and the Horizon Europe budget by 2.1 billion Euros. With th...

BioMed Alliance welcomes a new member: ESCCA
The BioMed Alliance is proud to welcome a new member, the European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis (ESCCA). We look forward to working with this newest member to continue to raise awareness on the...

BioMed Alliance leads drafting of HERA Civil Society Forum Discussion Paper
On November 17, the Civil Society Forum of the European Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) adopted its first discussion paper on the strategy and future role o...

New CORE-MD Press release highlights lack of evidence for high-risk medical devices
Investigators from the CORE-MD Project revealed at the end of August in an article in the European Heart Journal that a majority of new high-risk medical devices that are used to treat heart disea...

Healthcare community calls for action: Do not fail patients and undermine the full potential of the European Health Data Space
BioMed Alliance, as part of a multi-stakeholder group consisting of 32 European patient organisations, medical associations, research organisations, data collaborations and industry associations met E...

Healthcare community calls for action: Do not fail patients and undermine the full potential of the European Health Data Space
BioMed Alliance, as part of a multi-stakeholder group consisting of 32 European patient organisations, medical associations, research organisations, data collaborations and industry associations met E...

CORE-MD Press release highlights lack of evidence for high-risk medical devices
Investigators from the CORE-MD Project revealed at the end of August 2023 in an article in the European Heart Journal that a majority of new high-risk medical devices that are used to treat hear...

Doctors call on the Commission to address limited availability of medical devices, particularly for children
BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particularly for children and...

Press release and letter to European Commission call for urgent action to address device shortages
On 27 June 2023, BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particula...

Press release calls on the Commission to address limited availability of medical devices, particularly for children
BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particularly for children and...

Multi-stakeholder EHDS Workshop to kicked off discussions on the proposal
The EU Health Coalition, with the support of BioMed Alliance, EAU, EFPIA and COCIR organised a hybrid workshop with stakeholders and policy makers on 18 May to 'Maximise EHDS impact on better health d...

Updated survey shortages medical devices (February 2023)
In February 2023 BioMed Alliance launched a new survey on current/upcoming shortages of medical devices. With this short survey, the BioMed Alliance would like to assess whether clinicians experi...