- EFA Capacity Building 2019: Evidence Based advocacy
- Between November 26th and 27th, EFA members were invited to Strasbourg to engage in a 2-day programme, consisting of presentations from external speakers and a practical workshop. During the presentat ...
- Moving forward to better management and personalised therapy in asthma and COPD
- However, recent studies have shown that on a molecular level, certain patterns are shared by patients, suggesting that they may also share pathways of response to treatment and disease progression. ...
- Winter is coming: Tips for clean air indoors
- In winter, indoor air quality may decrease due to heating, cooking and closed windows. Yet a lot can be done to have clean air indoors anyway. Danish EFA member Astma-Allergi Denmark provides an overv ...
- World COPD Day in Czech Republic
- EFA member Czech Associations against Lung Diseases, ČOPN, carried out several activities around World COPD Day 2019. In out-patient departments and department stores all over the country, spirometry ...
- EFA-Live: Tackling Second-Hand Smoke
- Brussels, 10.10.2019. Tobacco is still the deadliest preventable source of disease in Europe, causing more than 700.000 premature deaths every year. New research presented at the European Parliament a ...
- EFA launches European report "Active Patients Access Care"
- EFA eagerly launches its new European report “Active Asthma and COPD Patients ACCESS Care”. The report unveils new patient evidence on asthma and COPD patients’ access to diagnosis and care, involveme ...
- EFA launches new European report “Active Patients ACCESS Care”
- EFA eagerly launches its new European report “Active Asthma and COPD Patients ACCESS Care”. The report unveils new patient evidence on asthma and COPD patients’ access to diagnosis and care, involveme ...
- EFA at 69th WHO Regional Committee in Copenhagen
- Ahead of this important meeting, EFA produced a video statement which looked into the lessons learnt from the implementation of WHO Health2020 framework in the European region. WHO’s work in 2018/19 ...
- Global Vaccination Summit
- EFA attended the 1st Global Vaccination Summit, held in Brussels on 12th September. The summit was a joint organisational effort of the European Commission and the World Health Organisation (WHO). T ...
- EFA response to EMA public consultation on Drug-Device Combination
- In June, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) launched a public consultation on the basis of a draft guideline discussing the ‘Quality requirements for drug-device combinations’. The draft guideline pr ...
- EFA at European Health Stakeholder Meeting in the European Parliament
- On September 12th, EFA participated in a panel-discussion in the European Parliament on “Brexit: the European Parliaments’ role in prioritising patients, public health and health security across Europ ...
- Health is In! and with more responsibility in the new European Commission
- The European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen announced the names and portfolios of the new college of Commissioners. The health files were handed to Stella Kyriakides from Cyprus who h ...
- EFA celebrates World Patient Safety Day
- On September 17th, EFA has been active on the World Health Organizations’ (WHO) 1st World Patient Safety Day. The day has been set up to create awareness for patient safety and urge people for support ...
- WHO publishes 2019 report on the global tobacco epidemic
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published the 7th WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic. This year, the report focused on the progress that countries have made to help tobacco users quit. ...
- CONNECARE – personalized connected care for complex chronic patients
- Seven out of 10 hospital beds across Europe are occupied by people with chronic long-term conditions. The EU funded CONNECARE project aims at developing, deploying and evaluating a novel smart, adapti ...
- International awareness days – great opportunities for patient groups
- International awareness days are an opportunity to educate the general public on specific issues. Especially for patient organisations, it is a great possibility to mobilise political will and resourc ...
- CURE project shows good mid-term results
- Despite great advances in research, unfortunately, there is still no cure for asthma. The CURE project, funded by the EU, is looking at possible innovative solutions, such as bacteriophages, a type of ...
- Danish politicians tested for allergies
- In September, EFA member Asthma and Allergy Denmark has carried out a campaign specially focussed on the lack of specialists and asking for greater capacity in healthcare for the 1.5 million people wi ...
- Outdoor public places smoke-free in Sweden
- The Swedish government banned smoking in outdoor public places from July 1st. The following places should now be smoke-free: entrances to public buildings, places waiting for public transport, outdoor ...
- Survey on the use of lay language summaries in paediatric clinical trials
- The European Forum of Good Clinical Practices (EFGCP) in collaboration with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Association (EFPIA) are working together to understand what is the ...