The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 23, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(3):237; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm027
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European Union: the seventh Framework Programme resuscitates public health research
Rodolfo SaracciIFC-National Research Council Pisa, Italy
Correspondence: Professor Rodolfo Saracci, IFC-National Research Council, via Trieste 41, 56100 Pisa, Italy, e-mail: saracci@hotmail.com
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There are occasions when the European Union (EU) policies exasperate even the most convinced pro-European. A case in point has been the sixth Framework Programme of research (FP6, 20022006), where a panoply of biological and medical research has been dressed up as generally relevant for improving the European citizens' health, with essentially no placeexcept than in indirect, circuitous waysfor the research that simple