Vaccine for teens

Pubblicato il 04/08/2012Read time: 1 min

Chris Mullin, a retired American basketball player, teams up with Vaccine for Teens to help educate parents and their teenager children about the need to get vaccinated. In a video recently released on Youtube, the NBA Hall of Famer and member of the 1992 Dream Team stressed the importance of vaccination as the best defence against serious and life-threatening diseases like influenza, pertussis and meningitis.

Vaccine for teens is national program realized in collaboration with the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), Sanofi Pasteur and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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di Michele Bellone

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Approved the law for the restoration of European nature, but it's a half victory

di Laura Scillitani

Pubblicato il 17/11/2023

On November 9, the European Council approved the Nature Restoration Law, a regulation for the restoration of ecosystems. A much-hoped-for victory that leaves a bitter taste: the adopted regulation emerges from more than a year of negotiations that have significantly weakened it in substance. The risk is that the objectives lose their concreteness in implementation.

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On November 9, the European Council, the body defining the EU's policy directions, approved the Nature Restoration Law, one of the four main pillars of the European biodiversity strategy for 2030. A great achievement, yet leaving a bit of bitterness, considering the approved regulation was significantly weakened compared to the original.