15/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The network European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) which brings together 80 NGOs and non-profit making associations in the health sector, is against the European Commission's proposal aimed at authorising, in the framework of a review of pharmaceutical legislation, the controlled publication to the greater public of information on medicines. This proposal, which takes the form of a five-year experiment and only relates to three pathologies (see EUROPE of 19 July, 2001), would, according to EPHA, open the way to a spiral leading to the same ill-effects as those observed in the United States, where advertising for medicines is allowed. EPHA proposes the contrary, tightening existing legislation and developing a genuine strategy of consumer information and education.