- Swedish patients celebrate All Heart’s day
- EFA president Mikaela Odemyr represented COPD patients at All Heart’s Day, in February 14th, an event organised by EFA Swedish member the Heart and Lung association to raise awareness on cardiov ...
- Higher grades for the Swedes studying in rooms with clean air
- There seems to be a connection between indoor air quality in classrooms and school results in Sweden. EFA member Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association went through the country's best schools list in ...
- 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 ...
- New guidelines to establish diets in children with food allergy
- Food allergy is becoming increasingly common in infants and young children. Managing this disease can be a great challenge due to the patients’ young age. Researchers have been looking at how to devel ...
- Welcome to an exciting 2018 for @EFA_Patients
- I hope you, all our members, supporters, readers and allergy, asthma and COPD patients have had a good, inspiring start of the year. At EFA, we recap on our actions from the previous year to assess ...
- Skills-transfer in Belgium and Austria
- One EFA’s objectives is to help in empowering members with specific needs on their work for patients. We do this through capacity building workshops, where we discuss and share examples to develop a s ...
- Real World Evidence data in allergy, the case of immunotherapy - Interview with Professor Ulrich Wahn
- For some decades already, some allergy patients can start a treatment option called allergen immunotherapy (AIT). Immunotherapy involves exposing patients to larger and larger amounts of allergen in a ...
- Where is Health within Bulgaria’s Council Presidency?
- From the 1st of January 2018 Bulgaria is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The Presidency rotates between different EU member states and gives Bulgaria the opportunity ...
- EFA calls for a better access to employment of people with chronic diseases
- EFA signed the Call to Action to enhance labor opportunities for people with chronic diseases. EFA not only endorsed the Call to action but also contributed to draft it together with a Framework paper ...
- EFA Patients at BBMRI-ERIC Stakeholder Forum
- EFA's Roberta Savli participated on the 25th of January in the Stakeholder Forum meeting of the BBMRI-ERIC. The meeting served to identify the priorities of action and to organize and agree on the wor ...
- European Commission proposal on HTA: good news for patients
- On the 31st of January, the European Commission published a new proposal for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) cooperation in the European Union (EU) beyond 2020. EFA welcomes this announcement ...
- Air quality: Many Member States not complying, EU softens pollution targets
- Pollution is the largest health inequality in Europe and is one of EFA’s main concerns, as airways diseases patients are particularly affected by dirty air. According to the World Health Organisa ...
- EMA will organise a workshop on digital health
- We wish to report on the second TC of the Digital Health Topic Group that was held by the European Medicines Agency organised in January. As Members of the group, EFA will be contributing to the task ...
- The promising future of myAirCoach smart inhaler
- In January 2015 the myAirCoach consortium met for the first time in Thessaloniki. Three years later we came back to Greece with lots of excitement for finally seeing the myAirCoach mobile asthma monit ...
- COPD should be treated as a public health emergency, French patients claim
- EFA French member FFAAIR together with other patients and healthcare professionals’ organisations and with the support of a group of parliamentarians presented “Make COPD a public health emer ...
- Join French allergy patients to get access to desensitisation treatments
- EFA member AFPRAL (in French, l’Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies) launched in January a campaign defending the reimbursement for allergy desensitisation treatments. French heal ...
- New European Tobacco Cessation Guidelines are published
- Smoking causes a great deal of respiratory diseases. It is source of nuisance and exacerbation for people with asthma, allergy; and is the main cause for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ...
- Respiratory patients will walk the Road to Santiago: join the group!
- FENAER member Alfa-1 Spain organises, in the last week of August 2018, the “Alfas en Camino 2018”, the inspiring exercising trail towards Santiago de Compostela, adapted for respiratory patients. &nbs ...
- Go to vote, but without allergens
- Finnish EFA member Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation updated their poster for the Finnish presidential and other upcoming elections. In Finland, the polling stations are usually situated in school p ...
- Our own homes are making us sick: Energy efficiency is part of the cure
- Editorial: EFA President, Mikaela Odemyr. Published on Euractiv. Given that we spend 90% of our time indoors, the quality of our homes, schools and workplaces is a critical public health issue. Grow ...