- Personalised Medicine alliance discusses HTA at Parliament
- On September 26, the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) organised a Roundtable in the European Parliament to discuss how to coordinate Health Technology Assessment between Member ...
- European Commission report on cross-border healthcare Directive shows it helps clarify patients' rights
- On 21 September, the European Commission published an implementation report on the directive on cross-border healthcare (2011/24/EU). The concept of the cross-border healthcare directive has the poten ...
- WHO - Life expectancy is on the rise in Europe but caveats for allergy and respiratory health remain
- The newest European Health report by the World Health Organisation published on 12 September, shows that life we live longer in Europe. The European Health report is published every three years and is ...
- Our health is not sufficiently protected from air pollution, says the EU Court of auditors
- Every year, more than 400,000 premature deaths in the EU are caused by air pollution, resulting in significant human and economic costs. A new report from the European Court of Auditors published in ...
- Patient priorities at the International Congress of Aerobiology
- From September 3-7, EFA Director of Operations and Projects travelled to Parma to speak at the International Congress of Aerobiology about the problems that respiratory allergy poses to Europeans. He ...
- Subscribe to our free webinars to increase national patient capacity
- The time for EFA’s yearly capacity building training has arrived! Do you have what it takes to be advocate for the patient needs but you are missing impact? Do you feel you can improve this or t ...
- EFA and EAACI sign memorandum of understanding
- EFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), a longstanding partner of EFA. This memorandum of understanding will lay the groundwo ...
- Swedish patients launch an online recipe bank
- EFA Member the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association has launched the recipe bank, Receptbanken, where people can search for individual ingredients that they want to exclude or include. The purpose o ...
- The new AFPRAL magazine is published
- EFA Member the French Association for Allergy Prevention is pleased to announce the launch of the new Allergy magazine, Le Mag. The whole AFPRAL team has conceived it as a communication and informatio ...
- SAVE THE DATE! The European Parliament Interest Group’s event on the barriers to research in chronic NCDs in Europe
- Next 9th October 2018, the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma, is organising an event entitled “How to overcome the barriers to research in chronic NCDs in Europe? The case of al ...
- The 7th Environment Action Programme evaluated by allergy and respiratory patients
- The European Commission launched a public consultation to evaluate the 7th Environment Action Programme (7th EAP), which is the strategic document that guides EU policy to reduce pollution in the air, ...
- HTA proposal approved by the European Parliament health committee leaves out some patients expectations
- The proposal for a regulation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has been high on the agenda of the European Parliament during the last months. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and F ...
- EU-UK patient group meets the European Commission to discuss Brexit
- In July, our Director Susanna Palkonen chaired a meeting on behalf of the European Patients’ Forum and coordinated by the Association of Medical Research Charities UK (AMRC) to meet the Brexit taskfor ...
- New President for the food allergy patients in France
- AFPRAL, the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies, has a new elected president, Pascale Couratier, replacing exiting President Véronique Olivier. Pascale has been working for AFPRAL for m ...
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the spotlight in the European Parliament
- In July, the European Parliament committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) adopted its opinion on a report done by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) ...
- We want a future cooperation on HTA with patients at the center
- On the 5thof June, we attended “What future for EU cooperation on HTA?” organised by the European Parliament Interest Group on Access to HealthCare, in cooperation with the Patient Access Partnership ...
- IMI and its 10 years of medical innovation, the example of U-BIOPRED
- On June 27th we were 400 participants to celebrate an outstanding achievement on medical research. In the last ten years, the Innovative Medicine Initiative has done more than 100 European projects an ...
- AEPNAA Summer Camp 2018 for children with food and latex allergies
- From June the 23rd to July the 1st , AEPNAA organised their annual Summer Camp, aiming towards children with food and latex allergies. During this week, children between 6 and 16 years ...
- EU Health Commissioner invited us to present our views on HTA
- On May 15th we were amongst the 8 patient, consumer and public health associations invited by the EU Commissioner on Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis to present our views on the proposed ...
- We presented our Atopic Eczema Score of Emotional Consequences at the EAACI Congress
- Every year we are active participants in the most important gathering from the allergologists community, the annual European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress celebrated i ...