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EFA holds Spanish patient association alignment meeting

01 February 2012
On 25 January 2012, EFA hosted a meeting with eight Spanish patient associations in order to familiarise itself with the current state of play regarding...

U-BIOPRED project annual meeting held in Barcelona

01 February 2012
EU
Asthma
On 23 and 24 of January this year, EFA attended the annual meeting of the U-BIOPRED project in Barcelona. EFA is a partner in this five-year project, which...

Oxygen Harmonisation Project (closed EFA Project)

01 January 2012
EU, Europe
Asthma , COPD
- Inequalities
Background The EFA Oxygen Harmonization Project was a project officially completed in 2013 and focused on the inequalities which exist in relation to...

Stakeholder workshop on Indoor Air Quality held in Brussels

01 January 2012
In October in Brussels, Foundation Euractiv held a stakeholder workshop entitled 'The air we breathe - from regulatory patchwork to coordinated EU action?'...

Proposals for public information on prescription medicines

01 January 2012
The European Commission has recently issued revised proposals clarifying the information that industry should make available to the public on prescription-only...

EFA at EMA meetings

01 January 2012
- Medicines
On 30th November EFA board member Lina Buzermaniene and EFA COPD advisor Michael Wilken took part in the Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP) meeting...

EMA adopts implementation plan for its 'Road map to 2015'

01 January 2012
- Medicines
The management board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a new document entitled "Implementing the European Medicines Agency's Road map...

Polish Presidency conference on inequalities in healthcare held

01 January 2012
On the 7-8 of November in Poznan, Poland, the Polish Presidency of the EU organised a conference entitled 'Solidarity in Health. Closing the health gap...

Former EFA President speaks at COPD conference in Shanghai

01 January 2012
Europe
COPD
The International COPD Coalition (ICC) was pleased to announce that 480 people participated in the Second World Conference of COPD Patient Organisations...

2nd EFA COPD Workshop held

01 January 2012
EU
COPD
Following the success of the 1st EFA COPD Workshop focussing on prevention and diagnosis held in June, a 2nd Workshop was held on November 9th in the European...

Launch of EFA Respiratory Allergy Book at European Parliament

01 January 2012
Europe, International
Allergy
- Air Quality
On the 22 of November, EFA marked the launch of its new book on respiratory allergies. The event took place at the European Parliament in Brussels. The...

Council adopts conclusions on chronic respiratory diseases

01 January 2012
The Council of the European Union, which represents EU Member States, has unanimously adopted conclusions at ministerial level on "prevention, early diagnosis...

Launch Event of EFA Allergy Book and Call to Action

28 November 2011
EU, Europe, International
Allergy
- Air Quality
EFA hosted an event in Room A5E-3 (Alteiro Spinelli Building) at the European Parliament in Brussels to launch the EFA Book on Respiratory Allergies in...

EFA Book on Respiratory Allergy in Europe: Relieve the Burden

22 November 2011
Europe, International
Allergy
- Air Quality
This book, published in November 2011, contains the first comprehensive survey of its kind conducted “by patients, for patients” reporting on the diagnosis,...

EU Policymakers and the European Allergy Community Joins EFA

22 November 2011
Europe
Allergy, Food Allergy
Brussels, 22 November 2011 - The statistics speak for themselves: 1 in every 2 Europeans will suffer from an allergy by 2015, but what's worse is that...

Press Release: World COPD Day 2011

15 November 2011
COPD
Policymakers to prevent Europe from suffocating Brussels, 15 November 2011 - EFA commemorates World COPD Day 2011 with a press relese to simultaneously...

HealthVent - EU funded project

01 November 2011
EU
- Air Quality
HealthVent is a project designed to help develop ‘health-based’ ventilation guidelines for European countries, which would aid in the protection...

EFA Event: EFA AGM and Network meeting 2010 in Paris

01 November 2011
EFA will hold an annual general meeting of members on the 6th of May, followed by a networking meeting on the 7th of May. Members will have the opportunity...

Identifying research for the study of drug-related PML

01 September 2011
On the 25th and 26th of July EFA President Breda Flood attended a European Medicines Agency (EMA) workshop on reducing the burden of drug-related progressive...

Guidelines on development of medicines for children

01 September 2011
The need for new guidelines for developing medicines for children has resulted from the entry into force in January 2007 of EU Regulation EC No 1901/2006...