- WHO encourages European action on air pollution to protect health
- On the 13th of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli participated in a briefing organised by our partner Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) together with the World Health Org ...
- Good push for better air quality, but not indoors
- The Council’s Presidency has an important impact on EU policy. Since January 2018, Bulgaria is holding the presidency and therefore establishing the priorities of the council for first 6 months of 201 ...
- Good Indoor Air Quality is possible if industry believes on it
- EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli attended the VSK exhibition in Utrecht on the 7th of February, an event that brings together experts from the heating, plumbing, climate control and r ...
- Eurobarometer: Tobacco is the largest avoidable health risk in the EU
- According to the latest Eurobarometer, tobacco consumption is responsible for 700,000 deaths each year, remaining the largest avoidable health risk in the European Union (EU). The survey also shows th ...
- Patients’ safety and public health post-Brexit
- On the 21st of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli participated in an event organised by a broad coalition of public health actors on the need to prioritise patients’ safety ...
- Patients Access Partnership partners assembly
- On the 5th of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli took part in Patients Access Partnership (PACT) Partners Assembly, representing patients with asthma, allergy and COPD. The fu ...
- Asthma patients are testing myAirCoach
- In the last three years EFA has worked on the development of myAirCoach, a mHealth system for asthma patients. Now it’s time to test the system in real life and assess its effectiveness and whether it ...
- 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 ...
- UK patients not getting their basic asthma care
- EFA member Asthma UK published in February their biggest Annual Asthma survey up to date: 7,000 patients responded on their daily difficulties because of asthma. The survey included this year new ques ...
- Swedish patients celebrate All Heart’s day
- EFA president Mikaela Odemyr represented COPD patients at All Heart’s Day, in February 14th, an event organised by EFA Swedish member the Heart and Lung association to raise awareness on cardiov ...
- Higher grades for the Swedes studying in rooms with clean air
- There seems to be a connection between indoor air quality in classrooms and school results in Sweden. EFA member Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association went through the country's best schools list in ...
- 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 ...
- Welcome to an exciting 2018 for @EFA_Patients
- I hope you, all our members, supporters, readers and allergy, asthma and COPD patients have had a good, inspiring start of the year. At EFA, we recap on our actions from the previous year to assess ...
- Skills-transfer in Belgium and Austria
- One EFA’s objectives is to help in empowering members with specific needs on their work for patients. We do this through capacity building workshops, where we discuss and share examples to develop a s ...
- Real World Evidence data in allergy, the case of immunotherapy - Interview with Professor Ulrich Wahn
- For some decades already, some allergy patients can start a treatment option called allergen immunotherapy (AIT). Immunotherapy involves exposing patients to larger and larger amounts of allergen in a ...
- Where is Health within Bulgaria’s Council Presidency?
- From the 1st of January 2018 Bulgaria is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The Presidency rotates between different EU member states and gives Bulgaria the opportunity ...
- EFA calls for a better access to employment of people with chronic diseases
- EFA signed the Call to Action to enhance labor opportunities for people with chronic diseases. EFA not only endorsed the Call to action but also contributed to draft it together with a Framework paper ...
- EFA Patients at BBMRI-ERIC Stakeholder Forum
- EFA's Roberta Savli participated on the 25th of January in the Stakeholder Forum meeting of the BBMRI-ERIC. The meeting served to identify the priorities of action and to organize and agree on the wor ...
- European Commission proposal on HTA: good news for patients
- On the 31st of January, the European Commission published a new proposal for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) cooperation in the European Union (EU) beyond 2020. EFA welcomes this announcement ...