- Medical Technology and Health Workshop EPF-MedTech on HTA
- *EPF Credits* On Thursday 24th May we participated in a workshop on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Medical Technologies organized by MedTech and the European Patients Forum (EPF). HTA i ...
- Do you know how community care can improve patients' access to care?
- This 25th May, we took part in a workshop organized by MedTech and the European Patients Forum (EPF) to explore how community care can ensure equal and broad access to medical technologies for patient ...
- Chronic disease alliance calls for EU’s attention and money on health
- On May 16th EFA Isabel Proaño participated in the official launch of the European Chronic Disease Alliance manifesto, called “Europe’s health deserves the EU’s attention: Investing in chronic disease ...
- The Manifesto on Influenza Vaccination at the core of the vaccination week
- Last 24th of April, EFA, together with the six other organisations, launched the European Union Manifesto on Influenza Vaccination. The Manifesto, which was launched online in March, is now open for s ...
- Campaign on travelling with allergies in the UK
- This year the World Allergy Week took place from the 23d of April to the 29th of April, with many patient initiatives to raise awareness about allergies. EFA Member Allergy UK focused on the topic o ...
- EFA highlights the food labelling and nutrition needs of allergy and COPD patients at first EPF Nutrition task force
- Last 23rd of March, EFA took part in the first EU patients’ task force on nutrition organised by the European Patients’ Forum. The kick-off of this discussion platform is of particular interest for EF ...
- IMPARAS: Risk analysis for allergenicity of new food proteins
- On the 22nd of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli and EFA Vice-President Erna Botjes participated in a workshop organised by Imparas, a COST action of the European U ...
- Finnish patients encourage first aid training on anaphylaxis
- On the International Day of the Emergency Number 112, EFA member the Finnish Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation launched an awareness campaign on allergy management, encouraging Finns to learn how to ...
- New guidelines to establish diets in children with food allergy
- Food allergy is becoming increasingly common in infants and young children. Managing this disease can be a great challenge due to the patients’ young age. Researchers have been looking at how to devel ...
- Join French allergy patients to get access to desensitisation treatments
- EFA member AFPRAL (in French, l’Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies) launched in January a campaign defending the reimbursement for allergy desensitisation treatments. French heal ...
- How to assess the risk of unintended allergens in food?
- Our member Deutscher Allergie- und Asthmabund e.V. (DAAB) represented EFA at the 14th November roundtable with NGOs organized by the European Food Security Agency (EFSA) to exchange best practices and ...
- The EU Public Health programme evaluation
- The EU Health programme was subject of mid-term evaluation during the 20th European Health Forum Gastein that took place the 4th-6th of October. During the evaluation, Martin Seychell, Deputy Direc ...
- We are far from the harmonisation of allergen labelling in the EU
- “Allergen labelling is a complex issue to approach within the European Union”, concludes the report on “Harmonisation of Approaches for informing EU Allergen labelling legislation” published by the Eu ...
- EFA participates at the Paediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting 2017
- EFA president Mikaela Odemyr participated in the Paediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting - PAAM 2017 in London last 26 - 28 October, organised by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ...
- EU’s future: patients have a say
- EFA has participated to the ongoing discussion on the future of the European Union, a debate set back in March with the European Commission White Paper on the Future of Europe. EFA provided a formal c ...
- Sign up and join the march for the more than 300 million people with Allergy and Asthma
- You are still on time to join the 4,200 signatories of the Call to Action on Allergy and Asthma Sign now! http://www.callallergyasthma.eu/
- Allergy and asthma patients, UNITED!
- On the 25th of April, patients and doctors launched and the Members of the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma launched a call to action on allergy and asthma. Sign it now The p ...
- ‘Your allergy care – what to expect’, new UK website
- Knowing what to expect from your GP or other healthcare professional following an allergic reaction, or suspicion of an allergy, will help to identify what is causing the allergy, treat the symptoms a ...
- Food allergy tips from UK youth ambassadors
- Anaphylaxis Campaign youth ambassadors scheme was launched in 2016. They are a team of young people that produce social media and website communications for other young allergic people. They have ...
- UK Patients call for Adrenaline Auto-Injectors to be held in all schools
- EFA Members Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have been advocating together with the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI), the British Paediatric Allergy Immunity and ...