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Ireland proposes healthier homes for chronic respiratory patients

09 November 2017
Ireland
- Air Quality
The Irish Government has adopted ‘The Warmth and Wellbeing Scheme’ a plan to renovate the homes of patients with chronic respiratory conditions, with...

EFA participated at ‘European Patient Innovation Summit’

09 November 2017
Europe
Technology is changing the way patients liaise with healthcare professionals and manage their health and has the potentially to eventually reshape the...

EFA emphasised patient involvement at Human Brain Project Summit

09 November 2017
Europe
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...

The challenges of self-managing diseases at PRO-STEP conference

09 November 2017
EU
- Healthcare
It is widely recognized that self-management of chronic diseases is key to ensure improved quality of life for the patients. However, it is still difficult...

What if asthma disappears with a virus? CURE, the project consortium in which EFA participates

09 November 2017
EU
Asthma
Current treatments allow many asthma patients to control their disease. However, medicine is not yet capable of proposing a cure for asthma. Despite the...

EFA brings the patients perspective to the European Chemical Agency meeting for the first time

09 November 2017
EU
- Chemicals
EFA participated for the first time to the European Chemical Agency’s (ECHA) communicator’s network meeting on the 19th October, as a civil society...

Digital Health becomes a priority for the European Medicines Agency

09 November 2017
EU, Europe
- Digital Health, - Medicines
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...

Our suggestions for a more digital healthcare

09 November 2017
- Healthcare, - Digital Health
Digital innovation can be an opportunity to improve people’s health and with that vision EFA has participated in the European public consultation about...

New report on the effective ways to invest in health

09 November 2017
EU
- Healthcare
Access to healthcare is as important as healthcare itself. The Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health’s, formed by the European and international...

Environmental health community views to improve indoor air quality

09 November 2017
- Air Quality
EFA had the chance to touch base with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) membership who gathered in October 20-21 for HEAL’s Annual General Assembly. EFA...

Our recommendations to improve air quality in urban areas

09 November 2017
Europe
- Air Quality
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...

400,000 Europeans die due to air pollution annually

09 November 2017
Europe
- Air Quality
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...

Pollution is the largest health inequality in Europe – New Lancet’s report

09 November 2017
Europe
- Air Quality
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%)...

We are far from the harmonisation of allergen labelling in the EU

09 November 2017
EU, Europe
Food Allergy
- Food Safety
“Allergen labelling is a complex issue to approach within the European Union”, concludes the report on “Harmonisation of Approaches for informing...

The EU Public Health programme evaluation

09 November 2017
EU, Europe
Food Allergy
- Food Safety
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...

Timid health activities planned for 2018 by the European Commission

09 November 2017
EU
- Air Quality, - Food Safety, - Healthcare
The European Commission (EC) adopted on the 24th of October the Work Programme 2018, which sets up the EC’s priorities for next year activities. Unfortunately,...

Indoor Air Quality vaguely covered in the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings directive

09 November 2017
EU
- Air Quality
The ITRE committee of the European Parliament (Industry, Energy and Research) voted last 11th of October not to include binding provisions to improve the...

Where are we at since the IgE discovery 50 years ago?

09 November 2017
Europe
Asthma
The discovery of IgE antibody (immunoglobulin E)  50 years ago by Gunnar Johansson and Hans Bennich in Uppsala, Sweden, revolutionised our...

EFA Meet & Greet training will focus on European Health Technology Assessment

29 September 2017
Europe
- Healthcare, - Digital Health, - Medicines
EFA is organising next November our annual Meet and Greet training, under the theme of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and patients’ involvement....

New updates on U-BIOPRED, supported by EFA

29 September 2017
Europe
Asthma , COPD, Allergy
- Healthcare, - Medicines
The U-BIOPRED (Unbiased BIOmarkers in PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes) outcomes, in which EFA contributed, have been summarised in an interview...