Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy Generator
News

World Asthma Day in Italy

20 May 2019
Italy
Asthma , Allergy
- Air Quality, - Healthcare
EFA Member, Federasma e Allergie Onlus Italia, attended a press conference on new initiatives for Asthma in the Gemelli Hospital, affiliated with the Università...

Save the Date: FENAER’s first online congress for respiratory patients

18 April 2019
Spain
Asthma , COPD
- Healthcare
EFA Spanish Member Federacion Española de Asociaciones de pacientes alergicos y con Enfermedades Respiratorias (FENAER) will hold its first online Congress...

Stichting Voedselallergie: Broadcast on food safety in hospitals

18 April 2019
Netherlands
Food Allergy
- Food Safety, - Healthcare
A survey co-organised by EFA Member Stichting Voedselallergie (Dutch Food Allergies Foundation) shows that hospitals are not always taking care of...

AFPRAL co-signs open letter to French Minister of Health

18 April 2019
France
Allergy, Other Diseases
- Inequalities
EFA Member the Association Française pour la Prévention des Allergies (AFPRAL) has co-signed an open letter calling on the French Minister of Health...

NAAF launches allergy and asthma podcast

18 April 2019
Norway
Asthma , Allergy
EFA Member Atma- og Allergiforbundet (NAAF) has initiated a podcast series to talk about allergies and asthma. Podcasts are emissions that can be directly...

EFA Capacity Building on Communications – Social Media

18 April 2019
Europe
Advocacy and communications are strongly interlinked. For both, social media are fantastic channels to spread messages and share information quickly and...

EFSA launches new framework to evaluate the cocktail effects of chemicals in food

18 April 2019
EU
Food Allergy, Other Diseases
- Chemicals, - Food Safety
We are constantly exposed to chemicals in our daily life. It is in the cookies we eat, the cosmetics we use, and the clothes that we wear. Fortunately,...

EFA launches #DetectiveFood to denounce malpractice of allergen labelling

18 April 2019
EU
Food Allergy
- Food Safety
To mark World Allergy Week celebrated last 7-13 of April 2019, EFA together with its Members launched a social media campaign called #DetectiveFood. First...

HTA Stakeholder Forum discusses patients quality of life and involvement

18 April 2019
EU
- Healthcare, - Medicines
On April 11th, EFA participated in the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EunetHTA) annual stakeholder forum in Amsterdam. The meeting...

Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto celebrates 50th anniversary

18 April 2019
Finland
Asthma , Allergy
EFA Member Allergia-, Iho- ja astmaliitto (Finnish Allergy, Skin and Asthma Federation) celebrates this year its 50th anniversary and has therefore...

Allergy UK: Allergy Awareness Week

18 April 2019
United Kingdom
Allergy
- Air Quality
On April 29th, EFA Member Allergy UK kicks off its Allergy Awareness Week, focusing on “Air Quality – the allergens around us”. The patient organisation...

EU Coalition for Vaccination unites for confidence

18 April 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD
- Medicines
The first meeting of the ‘EU Coalition for Vaccination’, convened by the European Commission Directorate General on Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)...

EFA at Land Baden-Württemberg event on personalised medicine

18 April 2019
EU
- Healthcare, - Medicines
Personalised medicine is both a big opportunity for patients but also a necessity for many people living with a chronic diseases whose severity does not...

WHO urges stronger action to reduce deaths from Non-Communicable diseases in Europe

18 April 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Food Allergy, Other Diseases
On April 9th and 10th, the World Health Organisation (WHO) held a High-Level Conference on Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Turkmenistan. The discussions...

EFA launches #ShowLeadership campaign

18 April 2019
Europe
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Food Allergy, Other Diseases
Living with allergies and airways diseases has become a daily burden for over 200 million people in Europe. The drastic increase of people living with...

Delivering patient value discussed at EU Parliament

18 April 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Food Allergy, Other Diseases
- Healthcare
To mark the 13th European Patients’ Rights Day, EFA attended the conference on ‘Delivering patient value throughout the healthcare system’ organised...

European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma launches a Blueprint

27 March 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Other Diseases
- Inequalities, - Healthcare, - Medicines
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...

EPF: EuropeforPatients campaign

27 March 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Other Diseases
The European Patients Forum (EPF), of which EFA is a long-standing member, has launched a campaign ahead of the EU elections called ‘europeforpatients’....

Rare diseases: A new platform to support better diagnosis and treatment

27 March 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Food Allergy
- Healthcare, - Medicines
In light of the Rare Disease Day in February, the European Commission has launched a new online knowledge-sharing platform to support better diagnosis...

European Commission Manual for patients: Patients’ rights to accessing healthcare

27 March 2019
EU
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Other Diseases
- Healthcare, - Medicines
The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) has published a manual for patients regarding their rights to access...