PAIRS, February 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the high patronage of the European Commission, French Ministry for Health and Sports and French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, UBM Medica launches the first edition of the HEALTH EXECUTIVE SUMMIT.

The French government has reiterated its goal of eliminating deficit spending on healthcare and is likely to introduce further price cuts to balance the budget, according to Scrip World Pharmaceutical News.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it plans to create a strategy to battle harmful forms of alcohol consumption within 2 years.

France urges "solidarity" to resolve world food crisis PARIS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- World's developed countries have a "duty of solidarity" to countries that have been affected by the ongoing food crisis and they must "help these countries to rebuild their trouble-hit agricultural sectors," French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier has said.