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COPD MOVE, we are looking for COPD patient ambassadors

01 March 2017
Europe
COPD
- Healthcare
During 2017 we will promote physical exercise to improve the quality of life of patients living with COPD. The first videos have already been realised...

myAirCoach will be featured at CeBIT

01 March 2017
EU
Asthma
- Digital Health
myAirCoach consortium will meet in Brussels for the second year technical review with the European Commission that will be held on the 7th of March. The...

Food allergy tips from UK youth ambassadors

01 March 2017
United Kingdom
Food Allergy
Anaphylaxis Campaign youth ambassadors scheme was launched in 2016. They are a team of young people that produce social media and website communications...

EFA alignment meeting Estonia

01 March 2017
Estonia
Our Susanna Palkonen went to Estonia in February to meet the Estonian allergy and respiratory groups to introduce the value of joining our network and...

ABBA launches a national “Breathe Freely” campaign in Bulgaria

01 March 2017
Bulgaria
EFA Bulgarian Member ABBA has launched an annual national campaign to inform about respiratory diseases and advance care options for patients. The campaign...

Moisturisers for eczema: they do work!

01 March 2017
Netherlands
Other Diseases
The dry and itchy skin in people with eczema makes it common sense to use a moisturiser. However, it wasn’t known if moisturisers really are beneficial...

FENAER participates at the Spanish Respiratory Society Congress

01 March 2017
Spain
Asthma
EFA Spanish Member FENAER brought the perspective of respiratory patients to the SEPAR Pacientes meeting. Mª Emilia Carretero, FENAER Board Member highlighted...

Respira turns 10!

01 March 2017
Portugal
COPD, Other Diseases
EFA Member the Portuguese COPD patients association RESPIRA has celebrated its 10th anniversary in Lisbon on the 23rd February. During the meeting they...

Changing the perception of COPD: COPD Move by Patients! - EFA project

07 February 2017
EN BG CZ DA DE GR ES FI FR HR IS IT LT LV NL NO PL PT SL SV EN Physical activity is recognised to bring relevant benefit to COPD patients....

1 in 3 MEPs signed the written declaration on chronic respiratory diseases

07 February 2017
The Written Declaration 115/2016 on chronic respiratory diseases, an initiative of a group of Members of the European Parliament to gather support to prevention...

The first EP event of the year put the focus on health: Act. Believe. Care.

07 February 2017
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy
- Healthcare, - Medicines
Chronic respiratory diseases need public policy solutions at European level to respond to increasing disease prevalence, unmet treatment needs, high cost...

Great satisfaction among EFA Capacity Building participants

07 February 2017
Europe
EFA’s 2016 Capacity Building project ended in January 2017 with a last session held in Kent, United Kingdom, together with our member Allergy UK. In...

Our response to the European Commission HTA consultation

07 February 2017
EU
- Inequalities, - Healthcare, - Digital Health
The European Commission has launched a consultation on strengthening EU cooperation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a specialty to measure the added...

MyAirCoach will be tested in 2017

07 February 2017
Asthma
- Digital Health, - Medicines
In November 2016, we met in Manchester with our partners of the Horizon 2020 project myAirCoach to track the status quo in all work-packages, the main...

IMI looks into what patients bring to medicines

07 February 2017
EU
- Medicines
The Innovative Medicines Initiative launched in December its 10th call for proposals under IMI 2. We especially welcome one of the topics of this call:...

Third year of scent sensitivity campaign in Finland

07 February 2017
Finland
Asthma , Allergy
- Chemicals, - Air Quality
EFA Member the Finnish Allergy and Asthma Federation organized its scent sensitivity campaign for the third time last November attracting media attention...

First congress of allergy respiratory patients in Spain

07 February 2017
Spain
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Other Diseases
- Healthcare, - Medicines
On the occasion of World COPD Day EFA Spanish Member FENAER, organized the First Congress of Allergy and Respiratory Patients in Madrid. During the event,...

UK Patients call for Adrenaline Auto-Injectors to be held in all schools

07 February 2017
United Kingdom
Food Allergy
- Medicines
EFA Members Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have been advocating together with the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI), the ...

New asthma app launched in Latvia

07 February 2017
Latvia
Asthma
- Digital Health
PulmoGPS in collaboration with Wrong Digital and Faculty of Medicine of University of Latvia have developed an inhaler reminder application for asthmatics...

Meeting Portuguese COPD patients

03 November 2016
Two years after the first EFA Capacity Building meeting, the EFA team came back to Portugal to witness the progress achieved by our member RESPIRA and...