Swedish patients ask the government to establish national goals for people with chronic diseases
¨People with chronic diseases should be high-lighted," stated the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association towards the Swedish government. EFA member, the...
MyAirCoach, at the forefront of European innovation
MyAirCoach, EFA’s smart inhaler project, has been recognised as an instrument that “provides better ways of treating asthma and helps scientists understand...
“The word “I can’t” must not exist when you live with COPD”
Since the beginning of the year we have introduced you to COPD patients who help themselves through regular exercise in their own terms. People like us...
EFA at Alpbach Health Symposium on the importance of leadership for patients involvement
EFA representative Roberta Savli assisted to Alpbach Health Symposium “Leadership for patients’ involvement, Leadership for health – supporting transformational...
EFA at the Spanish respiratory research network, CIBERES
On June 30th, EFA Ambassador to the South and Board Secretary Carlos Nunes participated in the annual open days of CIBERES, the Spanish Biomedical Research...
New tobacco cessation guidelines
Tobacco remains the most significant cause of premature death in the EU, responsible for almost 700,000 deaths every year.
The European Union and its...
EFA takes a stand on the Fitness Check of the Ambient Air Quality legislation
EFA has responded to the European Comission procedure to assess the added value of the aimbient air quality directive. This novel process, called...
More Europe for better innovation for health and wellbeing
Europe is in an ideal position to take the leading role health and wellbeing’ according to the new editorial of Progress and Preventive Medicine “Viva...
EFA joins #EU4health, a campaign asking the European Commission to do more for health
EFA has signed the EU4Health campaign together with 196 organisations that ask the president of the European Comission, Jean-CLaude Juncker, to include...
Estonian presidency, what will be the new priorities on health?
The Estonian presidency of the council of the European Union has started on the 1st July. The small Baltic state has chosen to bring to the its first-ever...
Concern about the World Bank’s participation to meetings sponsored by the tobacco industry
EFA, the Progressive Reinforcement of Organizations and Individuals (PROI) and other public health and tobacco control organisations across Europe, we...
Fossil fuel subsidies cost around €330 billion annually on airways diseases
A new report from the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), of which EFA is a member, shows that every year, air pollution from mostly fossil...
EFA brought the patient perspective to the Bavarian State Ministers for Health and Care panel discussion
EFA’s Susanna Palkonen represented the patient view for us and the European Patients' Forum in a panel discussion “The access to medicines – Challenges...
EFA at the leading respiratory (ERS) and dermatology (EADV) conferences
EFA will participate this September in two leading respiratory and dermatology conferences, where we will expose our projects and bring our patients perspective...
Have you encountered any problem when booking your flights or flying this summer?
For patients requiring oxygen on board planes, an ordinary flight can turn into a nightmare. The current EU regulation allows air travel with medical oxygen...
Sign up and join the march for the more than 300 million people with Allergy and Asthma
You are still on time to join the 4,200 signatories of the Call to Action on Allergy and Asthma
Sign now! http://www.callallergyasthma.eu/
A teen with food allergies first travel abroad alone – Testimonial from AEPNAA
Youth and children with food allergies face significant challenges in their development to live a full life. One of these challenges is travelling abroad,...
PACT discusses the future role for healthcare in the EU
The ageing of the population, cuts in health budgets, and rising levels of health inequalities where some of the focal points addressed in the debate “Future...
Air pollution is the first environmental health priority in Europe
European Member States have adopted a Declaration of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health that sets priorities and actions for implementation...
An Indoor Air Quality Certificate to be discussed at the European Parliament
Patients need to be informed about the air we breathe indoors and this need might be included in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive,...