ENSP International Conference on Tobacco Control: new tobacco products, new evidence, need for stricter regulations
On the 14-16thJune, EFA Isabel Proaño participated at the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP) International Conference on Tobacco...
EU projects results to be more accessible and transparent
On June the 7th, in the context of the European Commission’s new proposal on the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9), we followed...
EFA at ERS Presidential Summit
The president of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Mina Gaga hosted in her home country a summit to "redesign the future of healthcare in respiratory...
Happy Anniversary Public Health!
EFA congratulates 25 years old European Public Health Alliance EPHA with the message that prevention is better than cure!
We took part in their celebration...
We want a future cooperation on HTA with patients at the center
On the 5thof June, we attended “What future for EU cooperation on HTA?” organised by the European Parliament Interest Group on Access to HealthCare,...
You too can Define your Asthma! A worldwide campaign
The Global Allergy and Asthma Patient Platform (GAAPP) of which we are Board Member has launched “Define Your Asthma”, an educational campaign...
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the spotlight in the European Parliament
In July, the European Parliament committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) adopted its opinion on a report done by the Environment,...
SAVE THE DATE: 1st European Atopic Eczema Awareness day programme
Next 14th September, we are marking the 1st awareness day around atopic eczema to bring attention to a very common disease touching 1 in 5 children and...
Italian patients celebrate the Food Allergy Awareness Week
EFA Member Food Allergy Italia participated in the Food Allergy Awareness Week celebrated in May. Patient associations mobilise people online...
How to use your inhaler?
EFA Member the Spanish Foundation of Allergic and Airways Diseases Patients’ Association (FENAER), launched in May a playful explanatory video for children...
Chronic disease alliance calls for EU’s attention and money on health
On May 16th EFA Isabel Proaño participated in the official launch of the European Chronic Disease Alliance manifesto, called “Europe’s health deserves...
Good diagnosis Or How to live well with severe asthma
The National Conference of the Romanian Society of Clinical Allergology and Immunology took place in Sinaia between the 17th and the 19th of May. As...
MyAirCoach presented at HIMSS Europe and Health 2.0 conference
Technology nowadays allows patients to be surrounded with actionable data and knowledge. Sensors and trackers represent the core of the latest innovations...
Check the air quality in your city! WHO publishes the biggest ambient air pollution database
This May 2018, the World Health Organisation has updated the ambient air quality database, which now covers 4,300 cities in 108 countries. These data are...
Do you know how community care can improve patients' access to care?
This 25th May, we took part in a workshop organized by MedTech and the European Patients Forum (EPF) to explore how community care can ensure equal and...
Medical Technology and Health Workshop EPF-MedTech on HTA
*EPF Credits*
On Thursday 24th May we participated in a workshop on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Medical Technologies organized by MedTech...
Suggestions from EMA Digital Health topic group
As official members of the European Medicines Agency Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP), we are also very active in several of the agency’s...
We presented our Atopic Eczema Score of Emotional Consequences at the EAACI Congress
Every year we are active participants in the most important gathering from the allergologists community, the annual European Academy of Allergy and Clinical...
EU Health Commissioner invited us to present our views on HTA
On May 15th we were amongst the 8 patient, consumer and public health associations invited by the EU Commissioner on Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis...
Campaign on travelling with allergies in the UK
This year the World Allergy Week took place from the 23d of April to the 29th of April, with many patient initiatives to raise awareness about allergies.
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