- 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 ...
- Suggestions from EMA Digital Health topic group
- As official members of the European Medicines Agency Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP), we are also very active in several of the agency’s topic groups to ensure that the regulatory work d ...
- 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 ...
- Check the air quality in your city! WHO publishes the biggest ambient air pollution database
- This May 2018, the World Health Organisation has updated the ambient air quality database, which now covers 4,300 cities in 108 countries. These data are the world’s most comprehensive database on amb ...
- MyAirCoach presented at HIMSS Europe and Health 2.0 conference
- Technology nowadays allows patients to be surrounded with actionable data and knowledge. Sensors and trackers represent the core of the latest innovations to bring a support to us for living a heal ...
- Good diagnosis Or How to live well with severe asthma
- The National Conference of the Romanian Society of Clinical Allergology and Immunology took place in Sinaia between the 17th and the 19th of May. As part of the conference, EFA Director Susanna Pal ...
- 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 ...
- How to use your inhaler?
- EFA Member the Spanish Foundation of Allergic and Airways Diseases Patients’ Association (FENAER), launched in May a playful explanatory video for children to learn to use their inhaler properly. It i ...
- Italian patients celebrate the Food Allergy Awareness Week
- EFA Member Food Allergy Italia participated in the Food Allergy Awareness Week celebrated in May. Patient associations mobilise people online from the 13th to the 19th of May to show ...
- We welcomed a new Member and a new Board Member
- On April 16-17, we celebrated our Annual General Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, were EFA Members approved our annual 2017 report, accounts, budget and 2018 workplan. We exchanged on members’ best practi ...
- EFA leaders meeting on personalised medicine, data protection and sharing, real world evidence
- The next morning day, Tuesday 17th, we welcomed six guest speakers who are the top experts on their specialty in a session that explored the future of personalised medicine and clinical data sharing. ...
- Europe aims to have a 1 million genomics database by 2022
- Health sometimes is not only linked to health ministries but to trade. Last 10th April, the European Commission Single Market directorate, celebrated the European Digital Day adopting several initiati ...
- 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 ...
- Our vision for the EU is healthier
- Last 19th of April, EFA together with other 14 organisations published a joint statement on the future of health in the EU, ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council ...
- ERS severe asthma satellite
- EFA’s president Mikaela Odemyr (Stockholm) and Susanna Palkonen (Brussels) took part in the ERS first ever Satellite symposium, dedicated to where we are with diagnosis, treatment and care for severe ...
- We presented the preliminary results of the biggest-ever atopic eczema survey for patients in Utrecht
- Atopic Eczema is a very common inflammatory skin disease for which the predominant symptom is ITCHING. It is often underestimated but the signs and symptoms have a huge impact on patients’ lives. Thos ...