Treatment Updates
In treatment news this November EMA reports on new COPD medicines and a UK body plans do discourage the use of a previously approved asthma drug.
EMA...
Member News - November 2012
In member news this month, EFA members have told us about their activities to mark World COPD Day 2012, our Finnish members join the bid to make Finland...
EFA and EU Policy Update
EFA submission on involvement of children and young people in paediatric medicines review
EFA has made a submission to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)...
EFA in Meetings - November 2012
This month EFA reports from the education meeting it co-hosted in Helsinki on the Finnish Allergy Programme, from a lunchtime debate in the European...
EFA in the Media
In media news this month, EFA has collaborated in writing a paper on research needs in allergy and is pleased to announce its data is mentioned in a new...
Member News - November 2012
World COPD day!EFA members from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden all marked World COPD Day in their home countries through a large...
Welcome to the October eZine!
Hello and welcome to this month’s round-up of EFA activities, updates and news!
The new EFA website is now fully up and running and we would like...
EFA to host Finnish Allergy Programme meeting in Helsinki
EFA will host a meeting to introduce the Finnish Allergy Programme this November
On the 8th and 9th of November EFA will host a meeting inHelsinki on...
Member News - October 2012
EFA member Allergy UK has published a new magazine for healthcare professionals and EFA meets soon-to-be member RESPIRA in Portugal. Allergy UK launches...
EU Policy Update
In policy news this month, the Commission publishes its 2013 Work Programme, EMA releases its opinion on medical packaging wording, updates on EU structural...
EFA in meetings - October 2012
EFA has been busy this month writing for the new EPF blog, attending the last meeting of the HealthVent project, travelling to the Gastein Health Policy...
The Health Commissioner's Resignation
The EU health Commissioner resigns causing fears to rise that the upcoming Tobacco Products’ Directive will be further delayed.
John Dalli resigns...
Treatment Updates
In treatment news this month, new guidelines are published to help healthcare professionals in the field of smoking cessation, the European Patients’...
EFA National Alignment Meetings
In 2011 EFA established a goal to specifically expand its membership to Spain after a prolonged absence of Spanish patient associations in the organisation....
Meeting to Introduce the Finnish Allergy Programme
After extensive presentations of the Finnish Allergy Programme, EFA is now taking delegations from 3 member countries to Finland 8th-9th November to first...
May contains/contains food allergen labelling needs improvement
The adoption of the new EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU was welcomed...
Welcome to the EFA e-News September 2012
Greetings from the EFA Board who held their meeting on the 19th of September in Brussels. Please save the date and venue of our next AGM and network meeting...
Featured EFA News
This month EFA reports on its food allergen labelling event at the European Parliament and has news about a European project soon to issue guidelines on...
EFA in Meetings - September 2012
EFA has been busy racing around over the last few weeks (literally!). We participated in the the ELF Lung Run, hosted a stand at the ERS World Village...
EFA and EU Policy Updates
In policy news this month we report on the air quality situation in Europe and how two new EU proposals are aiming to improve the safety of medical devices...