- Bubble Day and asthma education in Ireland
- On May 3rd EFA Member the Asthma Society of Ireland hosted Bubble Day, their biggest fundraising and awareness event to date, aiming to raise much needed funds to continue providing vital asthma ...
- PRESS STATEMENT: Allergy and respiratory patients welcomed at the UK House of Commons
- London, 23 May 2016 - Allergy and respiratory patients from all over Europe will visit on May 23rd the United Kindgom House of Commons, invited by Member of Parliament Stephen McPartland. Allergy is ...
- We are hiring! EFA Policy Adviser
- We are looking for an EU Policy Adviser (m/f) to start in June/July 2016 for one year period to cover partial absence of EFA policy lead. EFA is the European network of national patient organisation ...
- World Asthma Day - Young patients have something to say about asthma
- Adolescent patients with asthma encounter difficulties in following their medication but the reasons are unclear; HEY YA! HEalth Literacy, Young Patients with Asthma and Adherence to treatment: EFA Re ...
- Parliamentarians got their allergies tested
- With 150 million Europeans currently affected by allergy and estimations alerting that by 2025 half of the European population will suffer from them, we have helped the Interest Group on Allergy and A ...
- Health prevention is a right (and a duty)!
- Last April 20th we were invited to represent the patients’ perspective a European Health Parliament panel on prevention and self-care, together with MEP Cristian Busoi (Romania, EPP), former Iris ...
- EU Conference on Chronic Diseases
- The European Commission Directorate General for Health (DG SANTE) organised on April the 21st, the conference “Towards better prevention and management of chronic diseases” where Commissioner for Heal ...
- Tobacco Control Conference: Research, prevention and treatment
- On the 5th-7th of April, we were invited to speak at a three-day international conference on tobacco control on research, prevention and treatment organised by our partner the European Network for Smo ...
- Register to AirPROM final event
- AirPROM will end in June and partners are currently finalizing all activities and integrating the results. The latest AirPROM findings were discussed during the final partner meeting held in Leicest ...
- Bringing the patients’ perspective to the ERACoSysMED conference
- On the 5th of April, EFA Project Manager Giuseppe De Carlo attended in Bratislave the funders meeting of ERACoSysMed (the ERANET on System Medicine) as a representative of the Scientific Advisory Boar ...
- Register now for myAirCoach workshop
- The myAirCoach project is organizing on the 6th of September the Workshop on Mobile Healthcare for the Self-Management of Chronic Diseases and the Empowerment of Patients in Conjunction with MobileHCI ...
- A MUST READ: guide to involve patients in EU research
- The U-BIOPRED project has published “A short guide to successful patient involvement in EU-funded research”. The booklet was produced by the project’s Patient Input Platform, a group of asthma patient ...
- Asthma and Allergy pictured at European Parliament
- With 150 million Europeans currently affected by allergy and estimations alerting that by 2025 half of the European population will suffer from them, we have helped the Interest Group on Allergy and A ...
- EFA Environmental Determinants expert network
- On the 15th of April, EFA Environmental Determinants Working Group hold a teleconference to discuss EFA future activities and priorities around the topic. In particular, the results of the survey to m ...
- RESPIRA celebrates the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Day
- The Portuguese Chronic Respiratory Diseases patients’ organisation, RESPIRA, celebrated on April 21st the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Day, were they asked for the establishment of a National Pulmonary Re ...
- PRESS RELEASE: Young patients with asthma need more investment in technology and health literacy
- Young patients with asthma need more investment in technology and health literacy Brussels, 28 April, 2016 – BEFORE WORLD ASTHMA DAY. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. Today, 3 ...
- 48 tobacco additives could be banned in the European Union
- The European Commission is due to develop by May 2016 a priority list of at least 15 additives contained in cigarettes and roll your own tobacco that will be prohibited. The list is part of the Tobacc ...
- Patients will have more input in myAirCoach project
- Since February several representatives from myAirCoach Advisory Patient Forum will be more intensively involved in the different myAirCoach Workpackages that deal with the conception of an asthma mana ...
- EARIP: Building the investment case for asthma research and development
- The last EARIP partner meeting celebrated in London last 23rd of February served to present the 15 most important asthma research priorities for future investment. The identified priorities relate to ...
- Making tobacco a thing of the past: WHO roadmap
- A newly published roadmap of actions to strengthen implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the European Region 2015 – 2025 by the WHO European Region envisages a Eur ...