- Severe food allergy campaign in France
- EFA’s Member the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the severity of food allergy. A press conference on the campaing will be organi ...
- Chronic diseases in Europe: the Commission is urged to act
- EFA, the European Chronic Diseases Alliance (ECDA) and other public health organisations have sent an open letter to the European Commission urging them to act on chronic diseases. Chronic diseases ...
- The European Commission advances on “may contain” allergen labelling
- EFA brought to a European Commission workshop on precautionary labelling the patients perspective to abolish “may contain” mentions. With 17 million Europeans affected by food allergies, allergen info ...
- European Medicines Agency celebrates 10 years of collaboration with patients
- Our continuous input into the information, evaluation and safety and development policies of medicines in Europe is an achievement that we celebrate, especially after the renewal of EFA membership to ...
- EFA President moderates debate on care and research at EAACI Congress
- On the 13th of June, EFA President Mikaela Odemyr co-moderated a debate at a high-level policy meeting on the challenges and opportunities the European Union has to address allergy and asthma. This me ...
- New air quality legislation approved in Europe
- A deal on the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive has been reached under the Dutch Presidency of the European Union between the Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the EU. ...
- Take part in the Commission public consultations for patient-friendly clinical trials
- In the month of June, the European Commission has launched four new public consultations on clinical trials. The consultations are on risk proportionate approaches, on the summary of the clinical tria ...
- Map and improve patient education in Europe – Participate in EFA’s survey
- As part of our work to improve timely and equal access to quality care for allergy, asthma and COPD patients in Europe, specifically self-management, EFA is launching a survey on patient education to ...
- Building up an association for Georgian patients
- On the 31st of May EFA met with Dr Maia Rukhadze from Georgia, who is a leading allergologist working in Tbilisi. Dr Rukhadze, a patient herself, is confronted with a steep rise on the prevalence of a ...
- Chef and allergens card
- Material: Chef card This chef card can help food allergy patients inform staff working in the food sector about their dietary needs. The allergic person can crop and customize the card according ...
- Food allergy and anaphylasis action plan in case of emergency
- Material: People with food allergy, especially if they are at risk of anaphylactic reaction, need to maintain a very high safety level when eating outside. A personalised food allergy and anaphylaxis ...
- Living with food allergies
- Material: A guide for school professionals on what it is like to live with food allergies and the precuations to take. Original name: Vivere con allergia alimentare Author: Food Allergy ...
- Food allergy holidays check list
- Material: Travelling with food allergies demands a well planned stay, especially if patients plan to go abroad as language barriers can be an important obstacle to be overcome. Thanks to the check lis ...
- Promemoria telefonata
- Material: This fiche provides all the numbers needed in case of anaphylaxis. It also explains how to administer adrenaline and how to make the phone call effectively and quick. Original name: Promem ...
- Course on asthma management
- Material: This story for children is addressed to patients with severe food allergy or anaphylaxis and aims to show how to treat anaphylactic reactions and how to use epinephrine self-injector. It can ...
- Mi friend adrenaline (story)
- Material: This story for children is addressed to patients with severe food allergy or anaphylaxis and aims to show how to treat anaphylactic reactions and how to use epinephrine self-injector. It can ...
- EU adopts new rules for medical devices – Patients will have better information on devices
- On the 25th of May 2016, the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the European Union and representatives of the European Parliament agreed new rules for evaluation and market access of medical dev ...
- European mHealth guidelines (almost) ready
- The working group established this year by the European Commission is rapidly developing the guidelines for assessing the validity and reliability of mobile health applications. Following last face to ...
- Guidelines to assess quality of care include patient outcomes
- At the end of April, the EC expert group on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) composed of European countries health authorities and international organisations, published its first report: ...
- Guide to help and encourage pregnant women to quit smoking
- Material: Guide to help and encourage pregnant women to quit smoking Original name: Mikä onkaan parempi syy lopettaa tupakointi? and Det finns ingen bättre orsak att sluta röka! Author: ...