- 1st EFA COPD workshop newsletter
- Following the success of the first EFA COPD expert workshop in the European Parliament in Brussels on June 29 – attended by COPD patients and their representatives, medical experts, MEPs from th ...
- EFA Book on COPD in Europe: Sharing and Caring
- The EFA Book on COPD was published in June 2010, presenting COPD as a preventable and treatable disease which undermines European society by reducing productivity among the working population, while i ...
- New treatment for people with COPD
- At the American Thoracic Society meeting this May the results of two major studies demonstrating the effectiveness of a new treatment in the improvement of lung functioning of people with severe COPD, ...
- MEP Catherine Stihler hosts EU Parliament reception on COPD
- On the 15th of June, MEP Catherine Stihler hosted a dinner reception in the European Parliament in Brussels to present and discuss the need for a comprehensive strategy to combat COPD in Europe. The e ...
- National campaign on patient education in asthma
- The French Association Asthme & Allergies will celebrate World Asthma Day by promoting “asthma schools” in France Patient education has a positive impact on chronic diseases, but man ...
- Art contest to show what life is like with asthma
- On World Asthma Day 2011 (3 May), people with asthma and severe asthma in Europe are being encouraged to get creative for a unique art contest which will explore what it is like to live with the condi ...
- EFA in 2nd ICC World Conference of COPD patient organisation
- Preparations are underway for the 2nd World Conference of COPD Patient Organisations. This year it will take place on November 6th and 7th in Shanghai, and will be conducted by the International COPD ...
- U-BIOPRED Asthma Art Contest for people with asthma in EU
- The U-BIOPRED project to improve understanding of severe asthma, in which EFA participates as a partner, launched an art contest to bridge the gap between doctors’ understanding of asthma and pa ...
- EFA COPD Project follow-up
- After EFA's 'Call to Action' on COPD in the European Parliament in 2010 and the successful launch of the EFA Book on COPD in Europe , plans are now underway for a follow-up project to begin this year. ...
- Announcing the EFA Allergy Awareness Project
- EFA has started to work on the 'EFA Allergy Awareness Project', an initiative to raise awareness of respiratory allergies as serious and chronic diseases. The project will highlight the need for act ...
- EFA attends the U-BIOPRED project annual meeting
- EFA attended the annual meeting of the U-BIOPRED project in Barcelona on the 17th and 18th of January this year. EFA is a partner in this project, which aims to understand more about severe asthma by ...
- New Hope for People with Allergy and Future Generations
- EFA is delighted to be a partner in the MeDALL project – Mechanisms of the Development of Allergy – a large new research project that will investigate the causes of allergy MeDALL is fun ...
- Astma Fonds launches national COPD risk test
- The Netherlands is estimated to have 300,000 people with undiagnosed COPD. Astma Fondsthe Netherlands Asthma Foundation, has launched a COPD risk test in order to identify these sufferers. Based on a ...
- Global Allergy and Asthma Platform gets organised
- The 3rd meeting of the GA²P², the Global Allergy and Asthma Patient Platform, a project initiated by EFA, will be held on the 11th of June 2011 at the Intercontinental (Ceylan Istanbul) Hote ...
- EU support EFA Call to Action on COPD
- The European Respiratory Society (ERS), the European Lung Foundation (ELF), the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the Internationa ...
- Launched Call to Action on COPD at the European Parliament
- Just after the EU Open Health Forum on the 30th of June, EFA reunited many stakeholders at the European Parliament in Brussels to make the case for strong European action and cooperation to combat Chr ...
- World Asthma Day in Bulgaria orgamised by ABBA
- On World Asthma Day in May the Association organised in 7 cities (Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Varna, Pleven, Berkoziva) in Bulgaria 2000 spirometry tests, as well as games, with the support of Confe ...
- Multidisciplinary centre in allergy needed to prevent asthma
- The Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association (NAAF) issued a press release demanding cross-professional centres for diagnosis and treatment of allergy to focus on the relationship between allergy and ...
- All severe asthma is not the same!
- May the 4th is World Asthma Day (WAD), an international annual event to raise awareness on asthma and encourage better care for this people with asthma. Severe Asthma is particularly serious concern ...
- Italian COPD Patient Association BPCO
- In order to obtain the revision of the “essential levels of care” of the Italian Ministry of Health and including COPD among the list of chronic disabling diseases, the BPCO organises join ...