The Commission has published the latest Country Cancer Profiles for all Member States, Norway and Iceland. The 2025 reports show that cancer survival rates are increasing across the EU. At the same time, cancer continues to be a public health concern, and cancer inequalities still persist across Member States. The profiles also demonstrate how cancer […]
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Want to develop better habits? Brain science tells how
It’s New Year’s resolutions time again. That invariably means breaking some bad habits and forming new ones in an effort to improve our physical health and mental well-being. A team of cognitive neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland revealed a new technique to change habits that will lead to lasting outcomes. The findings were […]
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Higher life expectancy at birth for women in all EU regions
In 2022, life expectancy at birth in the EU for women (83.3 years) was 5.4 years higher than for men (77.9 years). This gender gap in favour of women persisted in all of the regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) for which data are available. Life expectancy at birth for women peaked in […]
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