- Revolutionary thinking in the conception of asthma
- Our knowledge of the human body has steeped in the last decades but there are foundations still escaping our understanding, asthma development being one of them. The Lancet has published a consensus o ...
- 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! ...
- 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 ...
- New updates on U-BIOPRED, supported by EFA
- The U-BIOPRED (Unbiased BIOmarkers in PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes) outcomes, in which EFA contributed, have been summarised in an interview published by European Respiratory & Pulmo ...
- Swedish patients ask the government to establish national goals for people with chronic diseases
- ¨People with chronic diseases should be high-lighted," stated the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association towards the Swedish government. EFA member, the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association believes ...
- Bulgarian patients organise a concert to inform about of air pollution
- EFA member, the Association of Bulgarians with Bronchial Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA), organised on 2nd September an acoustic concert in the cave "God's eyes" under the title "Better air for better ...
- MyAirCoach, at the forefront of European innovation
- MyAirCoach, EFA’s smart inhaler project, has been recognised as an instrument that “provides better ways of treating asthma and helps scientists understand what is driving this growing global epidemic ...
- 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 ...
- EFA at the Spanish respiratory research network, CIBERES
- On June 30th, EFA Ambassador to the South and Board Secretary Carlos Nunes participated in the annual open days of CIBERES, the Spanish Biomedical Research Network Center on Respiratory Diseases. Cibe ...
- 'Patients experiences are helpful for policy’ says EFA President at EAACI Congress
- EFA President Mikaela Odemyr spoke at the EAACI EU Policy Stakeholder lunch celebrated on the 19 June during the EAACI Congress that took place in Helsinki 17-21 June. Next to Member of the European P ...
- A transformative agenda for asthma research in Europe
- EFA, together with the European Asthma Research and Innovation Partnership (EARIP) partners elaborated a paper setting out what should be the European asthma research priorities. The European A ...
- myAirCoach project is at its final stages
- myAirCoach is in a crucial stage and all partners are intensifying their efforts to deliver the innovative mHealth tool that will improve the quality of life of people with asthma. To updat ...
- Do children in healthy class rooms perform better?
- Almedalen Week in July is an important date in the calendar as it is a meeting point in Sweden for all those looking to discuss important and topical social issues. The event started in 1968 whe ...
- EFA elected to the Global Asthma and Allergy Patients’ Platform (GAAPP) Board
- EFA Deputy Director Roberta Savli was elected as second Vice-President to the Global Asthma and Allergy Patients’ Platform (GAAPP) during the last annual general meeting of the association, which took ...
- MyAirCoach presented at eHealth Week
- New technologies can revolutionise the healthcare system, providing a better delivery of services and developing effective health policy. We are now able to access and share personal health data, thus ...
- Air pollution remains higher than in 2014
- Outdoor air pollution is the number one environmental cause of premature death in the European Union and its all inhaled though our lungs, our patients, children, older people are the most concerned. ...
- United Action for Allergy and Asthma
- A political Call to Action in Europe Allergy and asthma are among the most frequent chronic diseases in the European Union (EU). Over 150 million EU citizens – almost one in three people – suffer fr ...
- Allergy and asthma patients, UNITED!
- On the 25th of April, patients and doctors launched and the Members of the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma launched a call to action on allergy and asthma. Sign it now The p ...
- myAirCoach Advisory Patient Forum lay summary on m-health
- A new study from myAirCoach asking patients and healthcare professionals about their preferences and the utility of mobile health tools, confirms m-health potential for easier asthma control. It is ...