Live-saving decisions at the European Parliament on food labelling
BRUSSELS, 14 June 2010 - EFA together with the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) highlight the importance of the plenary...
Governments not protecting the health of citizens
BRUSSELS, 10 June- The European Respiratory Society (ERS) together with the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations...
EFA in meetings - May 2010
EFA participated to the Seminar on Health Technology Assessment organised by the European Patients Forum (EPF) on May 19th. It involved more than 80 patient...
Ask EU Parliament to sign the Written Declaration!
As explained in our last issue, the officially recognised European Patient’s Right Day would be a day dedicated to raising the awareness among patients...
75% of EU citizens support stronger tobacco control measures
Ahead of World no Tobacco Day 31st of May, a new Eurobarometer survey on tobacco was released. The survey shows that 3 on 4 European citizens support pictorial...
European Parliament held historical vote on the 16th of June
The European Parliament (EP) debated on the proposal for a regulation on food information to consumers on the 15th of June, and adopted amendments on the...
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,...
European Commission Open Health Forum workshop
A day before our event on COPD, EFA and Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) coordinated a workshop on “Integrating environment and health policy towards...
Launch of the Call to Action on COPD
Will Europe Suffocate or Breathe?
On the 30th of June, EFA held a successful event hosted by MEP Catherine Stihler, at the European Parliament in Brussels,...
Greetings from EFA Annual General Meeting
Vilnius in Lithuania was the city that hosted the 14th EFA Conference. The first day was dedicated to the AGM and the second day was a half a day conference....
EFA actions
In preparation to this plenary, EFA issued a Position Paper on food labelling related to this proposal. EFA food allergy working group of members held...
Press Release: Today is World Asthma Day: All severe asthma is not the same!
All severe asthma is not the same! The speedy development of new therapies for severe asthma to be increased by proving that no one is ‘average’.
BRUSSELS,...
Raising awareness of symptoms caused by fragrances
Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association will coordinate their local asthma and allergy associations’ action to point out the problem with asthma- and...
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...
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...
EFA in meetings - April 2010
EFA held its Board Meeting followed by a Funding Partners Meeting on the 12th of April in Brussels. EFA Board Member Breda Flood participated as a patient...
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...
"Oasis Allergies" magazine of the FPA and AFPRAL available
After 20 years of publication, the quarterly magazine of the Prevention des Allergies absl and Association Francaise pour la prevention des allergies“Oasis...
COPD European problem with European solutions
Our event on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease will take place at the European Parliament on the 30th of June, just after the EU Open Health Forum....
EU Open Health Forum in June, to be followed by EFA event
The EU Health Forum is a consultation and information mechanism, which aims at making sure that the European Union Health Policy corresponds to the concern...