In the last few years, there has been an alarming increase of falsified medicinal products in Europe. Falsified medicines are medicines with a false representation of their identity, source and history -medicines therefore which pass themselves as real, authorized medicines. In particular, falsified medicines might contain ingredients which are of bad quality or in wrong

Extensive Web use has become a global phenomenon which has nonetheless brought to surface certain issues -personal data protection being one of them. The health industry is certainly positively influenced by the increasing new technological developments that lead to the improvement of medical services. Although the design of websites, accessible both to Healthcare Professionals and

Health-related web research may be efficient; however, it entails the risk of misinformation both for the general public and for health care professionals (HCP). At the same time, social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter have introduced a whole new set of changes regarding the advertising of medicinal products and medical devices. A harmonized

Medical device advertising lacks harmonization within the EU as there is no specific chapter nor any particular EU legislation dedicated either to advertising or to the promotion of medical devices. The general legal European framework for medical devices (MD) includes three Medical Devices Directives -Directive 93/42/EEC, Directive 90/385/EEC and Directive 98/79/EEC- which focus on the

Α.The advertising of medicinal products.   The Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community Code relating to medicinal products for human use provides a harmonized framework for the advertising and promotion of medicines. The directive has been implemented to Greek law via Ministerial Decision ΔΥΓ3α/οικ.82161.   According to the Directive’s Article 86, “advertising of medicinal products shall include

“Foremost, corrupt countries are less safe.  Corruption thwarts economic development, traps entire populations in poverty, and leaves countries without a credible justice system.  Corrupt officials who put their personal enrichment before the benefit of their citizenry create unstable countries.”  Leslie Caldwel, Assistant US Attorney General, North Carolina, October 2014. During the recent EU Healthcare Ethics

The new law (4281/2014) on Public Procurements was published on the 8th of August, 2014. In its second part, the new law incorporates the EC Regulation 1336/2013 which in turn amended Directives 2004/17/EC, 2004/18/EC and 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and the EU Council. The new law foresees rules in awarding public contracts and was