- HTA Stakeholder Forum discusses patients quality of life and involvement
- On April 11th, EFA participated in the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EunetHTA) annual stakeholder forum in Amsterdam. The meeting brought together speakers and participants from v ...
- WHO urges stronger action to reduce deaths from Non-Communicable diseases in Europe
- On April 9th and 10th, the World Health Organisation (WHO) held a High-Level Conference on Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Turkmenistan. The discussions were focused on national actions to reduce ...
- Delivering patient value discussed at EU Parliament
- To mark the 13th European Patients’ Rights Day, EFA attended the conference on ‘Delivering patient value throughout the healthcare system’ organised in the European Parliament by the Active Citizenshi ...
- EFSA launches new framework to evaluate the cocktail effects of chemicals in food
- We are constantly exposed to chemicals in our daily life. It is in the cookies we eat, the cosmetics we use, and the clothes that we wear. Fortunately, most of them do not harm the majority of the pop ...
- EFA at Land Baden-Württemberg event on personalised medicine
- Personalised medicine is both a big opportunity for patients but also a necessity for many people living with a chronic diseases whose severity does not respond to widespread treatments. On March 21st ...
- EU Coalition for Vaccination unites for confidence
- The first meeting of the ‘EU Coalition for Vaccination’, convened by the European Commission Directorate General on Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) united student and healthcare professional organis ...
- EFA Capacity Building on Communications – Social Media
- Advocacy and communications are strongly interlinked. For both, social media are fantastic channels to spread messages and share information quickly and in real-time to our audiences. However given th ...
- Allergy UK: Allergy Awareness Week
- On April 29th, EFA Member Allergy UK kicks off its Allergy Awareness Week, focusing on “Air Quality – the allergens around us”. The patient organisation aims to raise awareness about the impacts of po ...
- AFPRAL co-signs open letter to French Minister of Health
- EFA Member the Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies (AFPRAL) has co-signed an open letter calling on the French Minister of Health to address the exclusion of young children with chr ...
- NAAF launches allergy and asthma podcast
- EFA Member Atma- og Allergiforbundet (NAAF) has initiated a podcast series to talk about allergies and asthma. Podcasts are emissions that can be directly listened live by subscribers or downloaded as ...
- Stichting Voedselallergie: Broadcast on food safety in hospitals
- A survey co-organised by EFA Member Stichting Voedselallergie (Dutch Food Allergies Foundation) shows that hospitals are not always taking care of food allergies of their patients. EFA Board memb ...
- Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto celebrates 50th anniversary
- EFA Member Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto (Finnish Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation) celebrates this year its 50th anniversary and has therefore developed an interactive website showing the hi ...
- Save the Date: FENAER’s first online congress for respiratory patients
- EFA Spanish Member Federacion Española de Asociaciones de pacientes alergicos y con Enfermedades Respiratorias (FENAER) will hold its first online Congress next 8th of June. The Satellite event for pe ...
- Allergy and respiratory patients present a European campaign calling for action for better care and prevention
- On March 20th, the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma organised the last policy meeting of the current mandate, aimed at renewing the EU policy agenda on allergy and airways dise ...
- EFA patient leaders make our Annual General Meeting 2019 in Brussels a success
- On March 19th and 20th EFA celebrated the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Members in Brussels, Belgium and launched the EFA annual report 2018, Shedding Light into the Severity of Allergy and Airways ...
- European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma launches a Blueprint
- On 20th March, the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma, co-run by EFA and EAACI, organised at the European Parliament a Breakfast Policy Meeting on a renewed EU policy agenda on a ...
- First guidance on new rules for certain medical devices by European Medical Agency
- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a first set of guidelines to help prepare for obligations coming from the new EU legislation on medical devices. The guidelines, formatted as a questi ...
- Falsified medicines: New rules to enhance patients' safety
- Falsified medicines are fake medicines that are dispensed as real, authorised, medicines. In reality, falsified medicines may contain inactive molecules, or active ingredients which are of low quality ...
- European Parliament supports the adoption of an Indoor Air Quality Performance Certificate
- On March 13th, the European Parliament plenary adopted the motion for a resolution ‘Clean Air for All: A Europe that Protects’, an initiative put forward by seven Members of the European Parliament &n ...
- EPF: EuropeforPatients campaign
- The European Patients Forum (EPF), of which EFA is a long-standing member, has launched a campaign ahead of the EU elections called ‘europeforpatients’. EPF and their Members are calling on political ...