- EFA calls for the right to good indoor air quality at REHVA conference
- EFA Director of Strategy and Policy Roberta Savli participated on the 14th November at the “Delivering healthy & energy efficient building with Energy performance on Buildings Directive (EPBD)” su ...
- Europe beyond coal campaign at COP 23
- According to a new health impact modelling, in 2015 the EU’s coal fleet alone was responsible for an estimated 19,500 premature death, 10,000 cases of chronic bronchitis in adults and 458,000 asthma a ...
- Amsterdam will be the European city for the evaluation of medicines
- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will move from London to Amsterdam (The Netherlands) by March 2019. The EMA is the EU agency in charge of medicines evaluation and safety monitoring. The relo ...
- Patients’ empowerment in the spotlight at the European Parliament
- The Politico’s Spotlight: “Prevention and patient empowerment: who, when and how?” that took place at the European Parliament on the 20th November focused on how to improve patients’ empower ...
- Indoor Air Quality vaguely covered in the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings directive
- The ITRE committee of the European Parliament (Industry, Energy and Research) voted last 11th of October not to include binding provisions to improve the quality of the air in indoor spaces. The ITRE ...
- Timid health activities planned for 2018 by the European Commission
- The European Commission (EC) adopted on the 24th of October the Work Programme 2018, which sets up the EC’s priorities for next year activities. Unfortunately, health appeared not to be an immediate c ...
- The EU Public Health programme evaluation
- The EU Health programme was subject of mid-term evaluation during the 20th European Health Forum Gastein that took place the 4th-6th of October. During the evaluation, Martin Seychell, Deputy Direc ...
- We are far from the harmonisation of allergen labelling in the EU
- “Allergen labelling is a complex issue to approach within the European Union”, concludes the report on “Harmonisation of Approaches for informing EU Allergen labelling legislation” published by the Eu ...
- New report on the effective ways to invest in health
- Access to healthcare is as important as healthcare itself. The Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health’s, formed by the European and international health care expert community stablished ...
- Digital Health becomes a priority for the European Medicines Agency
- In October the European Medicines Agency launched a new topic group on digital health that will provide insights and recommendations to the agency on how to tackle the digital dimension of medicines a ...
- EFA brings the patients perspective to the European Chemical Agency meeting for the first time
- EFA participated for the first time to the European Chemical Agency’s (ECHA) communicator’s network meeting on the 19th October, as a civil society representative affected by the daily use of chemical ...
- What if asthma disappears with a virus? CURE, the project consortium in which EFA participates
- Current treatments allow many asthma patients to control their disease. However, medicine is not yet capable of proposing a cure for asthma. Despite the many ground-breaking discoveries that have impr ...
- The challenges of self-managing diseases at PRO-STEP conference
- It is widely recognized that self-management of chronic diseases is key to ensure improved quality of life for the patients. However, it is still difficult to picture integrated approaches that put pa ...
- EFA Patients at the leading respiratory (ERS) and dermatology (EADV) congresses
- EFA Patients travelled in a delegation of five to the European Respiratory Congress to present our patients perspective on allergy, asthma and COPD to a public of more than 20,000 participants from in ...
- A total of 4.832 signatures for Allergy and Asthma patients
- The 30 September was the last day to sign #CallAllergyAsthma, the political call for European action to improve prevention, care and research on allergy and asthma. The results are impressive! ...
- EFA stresses the need to reduce indoor air pollution at EUREKA conference
- EFA participated on 15 September at the EUREKA Roadshow in Italy, as civil society representative. The conference, organised by European Ventilation Industry Association (EVIA) and the European Partne ...
- EU’s future: patients have a say
- EFA has participated to the ongoing discussion on the future of the European Union, a debate set back in March with the European Commission White Paper on the Future of Europe. EFA provided a formal c ...
- Hungary, 5th European country adopting plain packaging of tobacco
- Hungary has become the 5th country to implement plain packaging within the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Scientific evidence shows that plain packagi ...
- 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/
- 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 fuel combustion cuts short the lives of an e ...