Translation of "évaluation d'une technique d'alimentation du patient " (French → English) :

58. Recognises that there is a demand for properly regulated, high-quality health and pharmaceutical cross-border services and for cooperation and the exchange of scientific and technological experience between highly specialised medical centres; points out, however, that surveys show that most people would prefer to receive high quality treatment near to where they live; considers that, in order to provide the most appropriate legislative response, the Commission should first conduct an exhaustive study firstly of the real need for patient mobility and second ...[+++]ly of the patients to which such mobility could apply, while assessing the impact of that mobility on health systems;

58. Recognises that there is a demand for properly regulated, high-quality health and pharmaceutical cross-border services and for cooperation and the exchange of scientific and technological experience between highly specialised medical centres; points out, however, that surveys show that most people would prefer to receive high quality treatment near to where they live; considers that, in order to provide the most appropriate legislative response, the Commission should first conduct an exhaustive study firstly of the real need for patient mobility and second ...[+++]ly of the patients to which such mobility could apply, while assessing the impact of that mobility on health systems;

The presence in food of material which contains, consists of or is produced from genetically modified organisms in a proportion no higher than 1 % or any other threshold established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 36 (2), shall not be considered to be in breach of Article 4 (2), provided that this presence is adventitious or technically unavoidable and that the genetically modified material has been subject to a scientific risk assessment made by the relevant Scientific Committee(s) or the European Food Safety Authority, or by third countries with comparable food safety standards, which concludes that this material ...[+++] does not present a risk for human health or the environment.

These networks' activities cover the following areas: - epidemiological research: studies of less common cancers; effects of exposure to carcinogenic substances; studies of nutrition-related factors; epidemiological studies based on comparing data from different regions (highlighting the effects of environmental, cultural and genetic differences, etc.); - research to improve early diagnosis: multidisciplinary research into genome changes in cancer cells; tumour cell and tissue banks; improvements in early diagnosis methods; exchanges of information between national screening programmes, etc.; - research to improve cancer treatmen ...[+++]t: improvements in radiotherapy techniques; evaluation of chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments, etc.; - research into the quality of clinical care and evaluation of health care services.

In this respect e-Health can play a role in the follow-up to the Commission communication and to the recommendations of the High Level Reflection Process on Patient Mobility and healthcare developments in the European Union. e-Health could provide technical solutions for information sharing at European level and contribute to the networking of European centres of reference. e-Health could also provide technical support to European coope ...[+++]ration on evaluating health technology.

It provides a scheme whereby those responsible for placing foods on the market and also control authorities may identify those cases where there is a need to scientifically evaluate a food which is being offered for sale for the first time, either because it contains ingredients that have never before been consumed as food or because it has been fundamentally changed by the use of new physical, chemical or biological techniques.