EC considers cost of innovation: EU Health Commissioner David Byrne quashes parliamentary inquiry from MEP Camilo Nogueira Roman (Greens-Spain) on the "right to health" in EU citizens' health rights charter. Adopted by stakeholders last November, the charter contends that individuals should have the right to innovative procedures independent of economic considerations. On June 11, Byrne indicated that the EC Treaty delegates medical care delivery to member states, effectively ending the initiative at the European level. Trade associations will now focus on individual countries...

Can Atlas Biomed unlock Japan's self-care market with its direct-to-consumer DNA and microbiome tests? HBW Insight catches up with the company's co-founder and CEO to discuss this and also how Atlas has been driving its European expansion plans despite coronavirus. 

France's ANSES warns women using oral contraceptives not to use a supplement marketed by UK firm Hairburst after linking the product's consumption to two cases of severe acute hepatitis.