- Patients organisations, their added value and importance in decision-making
- In November, the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) published the report gathering key insights and opinions from the European patients’ movement, including EFA’s, demonstrating the added-value through th ...
- PRESS RELEASE: World COPD Day
- Give COPD patients the chance to live healthier through exercise Brussels, 15/11/2017 World COPD Day – Physical activity positively impacts our health and wellbeing. Under the theme The Many ...
- Where are we at since the IgE discovery 50 years ago?
- The discovery of IgE antibody (immunoglobulin E) 50 years ago by Gunnar Johansson and Hans Bennich in Uppsala, Sweden, revolutionised our understanding of allergy and allergic asthma. ...
- The EU Public Health programme evaluation
- The EU Health programme was subject of mid-term evaluation during the 20th European Health Forum Gastein that took place the 4th-6th of October. During the evaluation, Martin Seychell, Deputy Direc ...
- We are far from the harmonisation of allergen labelling in the EU
- “Allergen labelling is a complex issue to approach within the European Union”, concludes the report on “Harmonisation of Approaches for informing EU Allergen labelling legislation” published by the Eu ...
- Pollution is the largest health inequality in Europe – New Lancet’s report
- Pollution in the air, water, soil and in the workplace is linked to an estimated nine million deaths each year worldwide – equivalent to one in six (16%) of all deaths, according to a ground-breaking ...
- 400,000 Europeans die due to air pollution annually
- Air pollution continues to cause the premature death of more than 400,000 Europeans annually. This is one of the conclusion shown on the new Air quality in Europe 2017 launched by the European Environ ...
- Our recommendations to improve air quality in urban areas
- Air quality is one of the priorities included in the European Union’s plan to develop European urban areas. This plan called Urban Agenda and composed by 12 priority themes essential to the developmen ...
- Digital Health becomes a priority for the European Medicines Agency
- In October the European Medicines Agency launched a new topic group on digital health that will provide insights and recommendations to the agency on how to tackle the digital dimension of medicines a ...
- EFA participates at the Paediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting 2017
- EFA president Mikaela Odemyr participated in the Paediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting - PAAM 2017 in London last 26 - 28 October, organised by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ...
- EFA builds capacity at the ‘United Voice for Better EU Health Policy’ workshop
- Advocating at EU level for better EU health policy requires joint efforts. This was EFA’s Roberta Savli’s main message at the capacity building workshop organised by the European Patients Forum ...
- EFA participated at ‘European Patient Innovation Summit’
- Technology is changing the way patients liaise with healthcare professionals and manage their health and has the potentially to eventually reshape the healthcare systems. Bearing this in mind, Novarti ...
- EFA emphasised patient involvement at Human Brain Project Summit
- Our Susanna Palkonen was recently invited to take part in the Human Brain Project (HBP) Clinical Advisory Board, as someone coming from a completely different field. HBP is the biggest health project ...
- EFA Patients at the leading respiratory (ERS) and dermatology (EADV) congresses
- EFA Patients travelled in a delegation of five to the European Respiratory Congress to present our patients perspective on allergy, asthma and COPD to a public of more than 20,000 participants from in ...
- COPD already ranks as the second cause of death worldwide
- Lancet’s Global Burden of Disease report 2017 has found that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is already the second highest killer all over the world, accounting for 5.36% of total deaths, ...
- 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 ...
- Patients and healthcare professionals discussed our role in antimicrobial resistance at the EMA
- EFA Vice President Erna Botjes attended three important meetings at the European Medicines Agency: a workshop on antimicrobial resistance, the joint and regular meeting of patients and healthcare prof ...
- New findings confirm reducing environmental risk factors could reduce Chronic Respiratory Disease
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a new report that demonstrates that addressing environmental risks is essential to reduce and prevent non-communicable diseases (NCD). Among them, chro ...
- 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 ...
- Hungary, 5th European country adopting plain packaging of tobacco
- Hungary has become the 5th country to implement plain packaging within the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Scientific evidence shows that plain packagi ...