Unprecedented ruling finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values The EU's top court finds that the reforms breached EU values on a number of levels and broke the founding values of the EU treaty.

🚨 Unprecedented European Court ruling finds #Hungary's anti- #LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values

The laws were brought in by #ViktorOrbán in 2021 and banned so-called promotion of homosexuality or gender change to under-18s, arguing it violated child protection laws.

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Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The

🚭 #Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

Children aged 17 or younger will face a lifelong ban on buying #cigarettes as the #Tobacco and Vapes Bill clears Parliament.

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Unprecedented ruling finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values The EU's top court finds that the reforms breached EU values on a number of levels and broke the founding values of the EU treaty.

🚨 Unprecedented European Court ruling finds #Hungary's anti- #LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values

The laws were brought in by #ViktorOrbán in 2021 and banned so-called promotion of homosexuality or gender change to under-18s, arguing it violated child protection laws.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The pro-Putin Bulgarian set to take Orban’s role as the EU’s worst nightmare A pro-Russian ex-fighter pilot is the favourite to win elections in Bulgaria, prompting fears of a new Viktor Orbán who could undermine European unity over Ukraine.

🇧🇬 #Bulgaria Election: The pro-Putin Bulgarian set to take #Orban’s role as the EU’s worst nightmare

A pro-Russian ex-fighter pilot is the favourite to win elections in Bulgaria, prompting fears of a new #ViktorOrbán who could undermine European unity over #Ukraine.

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The case for primary prevention of obesity in the era of GLP-1 therapies Obesity rates continue to rise across Europe, driven by obesogenic environments shaped by food systems, urban design, socioeconomic inequalities, and commercial forces. The introduction of incretin-ba...

🆕 Jabs alone not enough to solve #Obesity crisis, warn world-leading experts in @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social

While #GLP1 weight-loss drugs are a major breakthrough in treating obesity, more investment in #Prevention including tackling #Inequalities is needed

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Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders.

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders 🤩

Congratulations to Daniel Richards for winning the People's Choice award in our annual astrophotography competition with this impressive photo!

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Vaccines a huge success, but public trust must be earned - key findings from Covid report Immunisation saved hundreds of thousands of UK lives, but vaccine hesitancy remains an issue.

🦠#Vaccines a huge success but public #Trust must be earned, says official 🇬🇧UK #Covid report

The official inquiry into the pandemic praises the 'unprecedented' success of the Covid vaccination programme but warns about overcoming #VaccineHesitancy and #Misinformation

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The Health and Economic Benefits of Tackling Non‑Communicable Diseases Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are reshaping our societies. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung conditions now affect millions more people than a generation ago, and the trend is still ...

🆕 Report from @oecdsocial.bsky.social

OECD analysis shows that addressing risk factors for four major non-communicable diseases #NCDs - #Cancer, #Diabetes, #Cardiovascular and #Respiratory diseases – could have major health and economic gains.

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ChatGPT Health putting lives at risk - InSight+ Concerns are rising over patients’ use of AI tools such as ChatGPT for health information, but with little awareness of the risks. While ChatGPT has only been available since 2022, people have taken q...

"The February edition of Nature Medicine has published the first independent safety evaluation of ChatGPT Health, and found it gave inaccurate triage advice for more than half the cases it assessed."
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UK agency finds stark inequalities in health protection Chances of hospital admission with infectious disease strongly linked to factors such as ethnicity and deprivation, report says

‘People living in the 20% most deprived areas in England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital due to infectious diseases than the least deprived.’

Health inequalities are structural and interlinked with social factors such as poverty, housing and employment
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Péter Magyar's axe could soon hit Orbán's network in Brussels Magyar's election win in Hungary threatens Orbán's EU influence network, putting figures including Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, think tank MCC Brussels, and the Hungarian ambassador on the chopping b...

🇭🇺 #HungaryElection: EU Health Commissioner #OlivérVárhelyi ‘on the chopping block’ as #PéterMagyar's win threatens Orban’s EU influence network

Várhelyi is a close ally of Orbán and currently under Commission investigation into his alleged role in a spying scandal

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

🇭🇺 #HungaryElection - A strange new dawn:

“ Perhaps never before have so many socialist, liberal and green politicians been so happy to see a European country elect a parliament comprising exclusively conservatives, nationalist populists and fascists.”

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Drastic UK Aid Cuts Hit Fragile African Health Systems - Health Policy Watch Sweeping UK aid cuts are drastically reducing direct bilateral funding to African countries, posing a severe threat to the continent's most fragile health systems.

🌍 UK aid cuts are hitting African health systems hard.
Clinics are scaling back services for maternal health, HIV, and malaria.

Years of progress are at risk.

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🇭🇺 #HungaryElection: #Orban far-right populism has failed #PublicHealth

“preventable mortality remains among the highest in the EU. Lung #cancer (18%), ischaemic #heartdisease (16%) and #alcohol related diseases (12%) were the leading causes”

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

Europe should regulate #BigTech instead of banning kids from #SocialMedia, Estonia says

Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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🇭🇺 Hungarian opposition puts failing health care system at heart of election

- 58% of voters believe the system has deteriorated during Orbán’s 16-year rule

- Health expenditure is only half the EU average

- Life expectancy is 77 years, well below EU average

www.euractiv.com/news/hungari...

🌍 European Commission has cut its contribution to The Global Fund to Fight #AIDS #Tuberculosis and #Malaria as donors worldwide reduce contributions to #GlobalHealth

@isglobal.org estimates an additional 22.6 million deaths by 2030 if current funding cuts continue

www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

The chronic condition could cost OECD countries billions per year, with the total comparable to the annual health budgets of the Netherlands or Spain, a new report shows.
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🌍 European Commission has cut its contribution to The Global Fund to Fight #AIDS #Tuberculosis and #Malaria as donors worldwide reduce contributions to #GlobalHealth

@isglobal.org estimates an additional 22.6 million deaths by 2030 if current funding cuts continue

www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon

#NotATarget: Doctors warn that #Israel is targeting #Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's

Israel has carried out more than 160 attacks against emergency medical workers and ambulances, and forced the closure of six hospitals and 49 health clinics

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

Youth washing as a corporate social responsibility tactic of health-harming industries Abstract. The marketing tactics of health-harming industries are broader than advertising. Health-harming industries use a range of promotional and public

📚 New Journal Article: #YouthWashing as a Corporate Social Responsibility #CSR tactic of health-harming industries:

#Alcohol
#Gambling
#UltraProcessedFood #UPF
#Tobacco
#FossilFuel

In @healthpromint.bsky.social - Editor in Chief @docsamantha.bsky.social

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#AprilJewel: Spring has sprung in #Brighton #NorthLaine this morning

This is what corporate capture looks like! | Corporate Europe Observatory Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corp...

Corporations are writing EU law.

We need to:
✊ defend ethical standards
✊ stop corporate capture
✊ drop all rigged consultation methods that allow corporate lobbyists to dominate
✊ a broad based campaign to defend and expand the protection of the public interest

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

Youth washing as a corporate social responsibility tactic of health-harming industries Abstract. The marketing tactics of health-harming industries are broader than advertising. Health-harming industries use a range of promotional and public

📚 New Journal Article: #YouthWashing as a Corporate Social Responsibility #CSR tactic of health-harming industries:

#Alcohol
#Gambling
#UltraProcessedFood #UPF
#Tobacco
#FossilFuel

In @healthpromint.bsky.social - Editor in Chief @docsamantha.bsky.social

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Gambling, alcohol and smoking - all for one and one for all - Institute of Alcohol Studies New research reveals a troubling overlap between online gambling harm, risky drinking, and smoking — and why tackling them in isolation may not be enough.

Gambling harm doesn’t happen in isolation.

In our latest blog, Dr @lorenkock.bsky.social explores how risky drinking and smoking rise alongside gambling risk - with the highest harms clustering together.

Time for a joined-up approach to tackling these behaviours.

www.ias.org.uk/2026/03/31/g...