This week I hosted an event in the European Parliament to mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Day. Every year around 1,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the UK, and around 15,000 across the whole EU. Most are brain tumours or …

Not a day goes by without further job losses being reported, and the 7,300 posts cut by pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca today is a tragic blow for the hardworking people they employ. But it’s not just those that lose their jobs …

Today is World AIDS Day, marking three decades since the discovery of the first case of the disease in 1981.

To coincide with our commemoration of the event the European Parliament passed a report on the EU’s response to HIV/AIDS. …