- Check the air quality in your city! WHO publishes the biggest ambient air pollution database
- This May 2018, the World Health Organisation has updated the ambient air quality database, which now covers 4,300 cities in 108 countries. These data are the world’s most comprehensive database on amb ...
- MyAirCoach presented at HIMSS Europe and Health 2.0 conference
- Technology nowadays allows patients to be surrounded with actionable data and knowledge. Sensors and trackers represent the core of the latest innovations to bring a support to us for living a heal ...
- Good diagnosis Or How to live well with severe asthma
- The National Conference of the Romanian Society of Clinical Allergology and Immunology took place in Sinaia between the 17th and the 19th of May. As part of the conference, EFA Director Susanna Pal ...
- Chronic disease alliance calls for EU’s attention and money on health
- On May 16th EFA Isabel Proaño participated in the official launch of the European Chronic Disease Alliance manifesto, called “Europe’s health deserves the EU’s attention: Investing in chronic disease ...
- How to use your inhaler?
- EFA Member the Spanish Foundation of Allergic and Airways Diseases Patients’ Association (FENAER), launched in May a playful explanatory video for children to learn to use their inhaler properly. It i ...
- Italian patients celebrate the Food Allergy Awareness Week
- EFA Member Food Allergy Italia participated in the Food Allergy Awareness Week celebrated in May. Patient associations mobilise people online from the 13th to the 19th of May to show ...
- EFA leaders meeting on personalised medicine, data protection and sharing, real world evidence
- The next morning day, Tuesday 17th, we welcomed six guest speakers who are the top experts on their specialty in a session that explored the future of personalised medicine and clinical data sharing. ...
- Europe aims to have a 1 million genomics database by 2022
- Health sometimes is not only linked to health ministries but to trade. Last 10th April, the European Commission Single Market directorate, celebrated the European Digital Day adopting several initiati ...
- Our vision for the EU is healthier
- Last 19th of April, EFA together with other 14 organisations published a joint statement on the future of health in the EU, ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council ...
- We presented the preliminary results of the biggest-ever atopic eczema survey for patients in Utrecht
- Atopic Eczema is a very common inflammatory skin disease for which the predominant symptom is ITCHING. It is often underestimated but the signs and symptoms have a huge impact on patients’ lives. Thos ...
- Patients are driving the future of Severe Asthma research through ERS SHARP
- SHARP is a Clinical Research Collaboration promoted by the European Respiratory Society. It stands for Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Research Collaboration, Patient centred and it aims to facilitate stu ...
- PRESS RELEASE: World Asthma Day 2018
- Life is possible for patients with severe asthma Provided that they have accurate diagnosis Brussels, 1st May 2018 – WORLD ASTHMA DAY – Today European asthma patients are joining voices under the ...
- EU Summit on airways diseases, air pollution and mobile health
- Digital tools are already part of our daily life, whether they are mobile applications or connected machines. In health, digital tools can play a key role in allowing guided self-management, leading t ...
- EFA supports the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists statement
- Last month EFA supported the European Statements of Hospital Pharmacy, the joint objectives formulated by the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) following a 18-month review process. W ...
- Asthma Society of Ireland phone line helped 70% of those under 50 to avoid missing school or work as a result of their asthma
- EFA Member the Asthma Society of Ireland FREE Adviceline service has showed extensive positive impacts for service users. The recent partnership research showed that 70% of service users aged 50 years ...
- Take the survey: does your lung disease affect family planning and pregnancy?
- The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) are looking for information to understand how people with a lung condition are currently cared for ...
- Patients’ safety and public health post-Brexit
- On the 21st of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli participated in an event organised by a broad coalition of public health actors on the need to prioritise patients’ safety ...
- Patients Access Partnership partners assembly
- On the 5th of February, EFA Director of Policy and Strategy Roberta Savli took part in Patients Access Partnership (PACT) Partners Assembly, representing patients with asthma, allergy and COPD. The fu ...
- UK patients not getting their basic asthma care
- EFA member Asthma UK published in February their biggest Annual Asthma survey up to date: 7,000 patients responded on their daily difficulties because of asthma. The survey included this year new ques ...
- Finnish patients encourage first aid training on anaphylaxis
- On the International Day of the Emergency Number 112, EFA member the Finnish Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation launched an awareness campaign on allergy management, encouraging Finns to learn how to ...