- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- EFA continues to be the only patient organisation working with European Chemicals Agency
- The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) organised its annual Accredited Stakeholder Workshop on 21 March 2019 in Brussels to mainly discuss ECHA’s Strategic Plan 2019-2023 with official stakeholders, lik ...
- New IMI Project: 3TR
- Despite the wide availability of treatments for autoimmune, inflammatory and allergic diseases, the response to therapy and the disease progression is unpredictable and varies from patient to patient. ...
- European Commission Manual for patients: Patients’ rights to accessing healthcare
- The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) has published a manual for patients regarding their rights to access healthcare in any EU/EEA country different from t ...
- Rare diseases: A new platform to support better diagnosis and treatment
- In light of the Rare Disease Day in February, the European Commission has launched a new online knowledge-sharing platform to support better diagnosis and treatment for more than 30 million Europeans ...
- Asthma Allergy Denmark: Hay-fever and allergy high-school 2019
- EFA Member Astma Allergi Denmark organises a Hay-fever and Allergy High School. During the event, attendees can ask questions and get advice from Astma-Allergy Denmark. The goal of the ‘High School’ i ...
- European Food Safety Authority discusses civil society concerns
- The use and presence of pesticides, and their classification as endocrine disruptors where among the top food-related health concerns that civil society representatives discussed with European Safety ...
- EU digital prescriptions system kicks off in Finland and Estonia
- We welcome the initiative giving patients the possibility to use digital prescriptions: prescriptions issued by a doctor at home can be issued when going to a pharmacist in another EU member state. ...
- Quaterly Summary from EFA Working Groups
- In December 2018 and January 2019 we organised follow-up calls with EFA Working Groups to discuss hot topics and share national experiences important for allergy and airways diseases patients. Food ...
- EU discussions on the Air Quality Directives shift towards the toll pollution has on our health
- EFA participated in the 2nd Stakeholder Workshop organised by the European Commission on January 15 in the context of the ongoing Fitness Check of the Ambient Air Quality Directives. The final ev ...
- Health Topics to be addressed by the Romanian Presidency
- In January, Romania took over the EU Council Presidency for the first time since the country joined the EU in 2007. Until June 2018, Romania will ensure the follow up on key policies, such as the HTAo ...
- EFA Plans for 2019
- Welcome to a powerful 2019! This year, we will have exciting new projects and events coming up! The EFA Annual General Meeting will take place in March just before the European Elections in May. In ...