Sweden to push EU to ban more chemicals from consumer goods
Swedish chemicals agency Kemi has announced it wants more action on the use chemicals in consumer goods in Europe. Its newly published strategy follows...
EFA and members attend annual ERS Congress in Amsterdam
The European Respiratory Society presented its priorities for respiratory medicine for the next decade on the 6th of September at the European Parliament....
EMA Patients and Consumer Working Party meetings
On 16 & 17 June in London, EFA board member Lina Buzermaniene attended a joint meeting of the European Medicines Agency‘s (EMA) Patients...
New 'ex-smokers are unstoppable' campaign
Breda Flood, President of EFA, has been invited to become a member of the steering group for a new European Commission campaign entitled 'Ex-smokers are...
AirPROM project launches new website
On the 16th of September, the pan-European AirPROM project – in which EFA is partnering, and with the European Lung Foundation (ELF) co-leading on project...
Involving patients in the development of health information
EFA Executive Officer Susanna Palkonen spoke on ‘New networks, new technologies, new patient’ in the annual conference of the European Federation of...
EFA speaks at EPF on rights and needs of older patients
EFA Vice president Christine Rolland was invited to speak from the perspective of older patients with respiratory diseases as a response to the Polish...
1st EFA COPD workshop newsletter
Following the success of the first EFA COPD expert workshop in the European Parliament in Brussels on June 29 – attended by COPD patients and their...
Announcement of prioritisation of children's disease
EFA is very pleased to announce that Poland, which took over the rotating presidency of the EU Council in July, will prioritise children’s allergy and...
EFA Book on COPD in Europe: Sharing and Caring
The EFA Book on COPD was published in June 2010, presenting COPD as a preventable and treatable disease which undermines European society by reducing productivity...
P-A Association celebrates 25 Anniversary
The AGM of the German member of EFA, the Patientenliga-Atemwegserkrankungen, took place at the end of May this year. The motto of the event was '25 years...
New video game to promote smoking prevention launched
'Smoky Rabbit' is the name of a new video game just launched to promote tobacco prevention! The game was released on the 31st of May this year, World No...
New treatment for people with COPD
At the American Thoracic Society meeting this May the results of two major studies demonstrating the effectiveness of a new treatment in the improvement...
Commission launches “ex-smokers are unstoppable” campaign
The European Commission has just launched a campaign aimed at encouraging smokers between the ages of 25 and 34 to quit. Unlike previous campaigns, the...
Recommendations on EMA's communications on medicines
A new independent survey commissioned by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and carried out by Dr Frederic Bouder has provided several new recommendations...
GAAPP board elected at Istanbul meeting
On June 11 the first AGM and third meeting of the Global Allergy and Asthma Patient Platform (GAAPP), an initiative from EFA took place during the EAACI...
Update on EFA Allergy Awareness project (June 2011)
The EFA Respiratory Allergy Awareness project is currently underway and responses to our questionnaire for patient groups have so far been received from...
EFA President Breda Flood speaks at IMI open info day
The newly elected President of EFA, Breda Flood, was invited by IMI (the Innovative Medicines Initiative) in June to speak at an ‘open information day’...
MEP Catherine Stihler hosts EU Parliament reception on COPD
On the 15th of June, MEP Catherine Stihler hosted a dinner reception in the European Parliament in Brussels to present and discuss the need for a comprehensive...
Introducing new EFA board
EFA has elected a new board and President at theits 20 year anniversarycelebration AGM in Paris on the 6th of May this year! Breda Flood of the Asthma...