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MyAirCoach, at the forefront of European innovation

29 September 2017
MyAirCoach, EFA’s smart inhaler project, has been recognised as an instrument that “provides better ways of treating asthma and helps scientists understand...

Hungary, 5th European country adopting plain packaging of tobacco

29 September 2017
EU, Europe, Hungary, International
COPD
- Tobacco & Smoking
Hungary has become the 5th country to implement plain packaging within the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Scientific...

EU’s future: patients have a say

29 September 2017
EU, Europe
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Food Allergy
- Healthcare
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...

New findings confirm reducing environmental risk factors could reduce Chronic Respiratory Disease

03 October 2017
Europe, International
COPD
- Air Quality
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a new report that demonstrates that addressing environmental risks is essential to reduce and prevent...

EFA stresses the need to reduce indoor air pollution at EUREKA conference

03 October 2017
EU, Italy
- Air Quality
EFA participated on 15 September at the EUREKA Roadshow in Italy, as civil society representative. The conference, organised by European Ventilation Industry...

A total of 4.832 signatures for Allergy and Asthma patients

03 October 2017
EU
Asthma , Allergy
- Healthcare
The 30 September was the last day to sign #CallAllergyAsthma, the political call for European action to improve prevention, care and research on allergy...

Patients and healthcare professionals discussed our role in antimicrobial resistance at the EMA

03 October 2017
Europe
- Healthcare, - Digital Health, - Medicines
EFA Vice President Erna Botjes attended three important meetings at the European Medicines Agency: a workshop on antimicrobial resistance, the joint and...

Revolutionary thinking in the conception of asthma

03 October 2017
Europe
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...

COPD already ranks as the second cause of death worldwide

03 October 2017
Europe, International
COPD
Lancet’s Global Burden of Disease report 2017 has found that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is already the second highest killer all over...

EFA Patients at the leading respiratory (ERS) and dermatology (EADV) congresses

03 October 2017
EU, Europe
Asthma , COPD, Allergy, Other Diseases
EFA Patients travelled in a delegation of five to the European Respiratory Congress to present our patients perspective on allergy, asthma and COPD to...

World COPD patients meet in Milan

29 September 2017
International
COPD
EFA Director of Policy and Strategyr Roberta Savli participated at a Global conference on COPD representing EFA, its members and European COPD patients....

Bulgarian patients organise a concert to inform about of air pollution

29 September 2017
Bulgaria
Asthma , COPD, Allergy
- Air Quality
EFA member, the Association of Bulgarians with Bronchial Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA), organised on 2nd September an acoustic concert in the cave "God's...

Swedish patients ask the government to establish national goals for people with chronic diseases

29 September 2017
Sweden
Asthma , Allergy
- Healthcare
¨People with chronic diseases should be high-lighted," stated the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association towards the Swedish government. EFA member, the...

MyAirCoach, at the forefront of European innovation

29 September 2017
Europe
Asthma
- Healthcare, - Medicines
MyAirCoach, EFA’s smart inhaler project, has been recognised as an instrument that “provides better ways of treating asthma and helps scientists understand...

“The word “I can’t” must not exist when you live with COPD”

07 September 2017
Spain
COPD
- Healthcare
Since the beginning of the year we have introduced you to COPD patients who help themselves through regular exercise in their own terms. People like us...

EFA at Alpbach Health Symposium on the importance of leadership for patients involvement

06 September 2017
Austria
- Healthcare
EFA representative Roberta Savli assisted to Alpbach Health Symposium “Leadership for patients’ involvement, Leadership for health – supporting transformational...

EFA at the Spanish respiratory research network, CIBERES

06 September 2017
Europe, Spain
Asthma , COPD, Allergy
- Healthcare
On June 30th, EFA Ambassador to the South and Board Secretary Carlos Nunes participated in the annual open days of CIBERES, the Spanish Biomedical Research...

New tobacco cessation guidelines

06 September 2017
Europe
COPD
- Tobacco & Smoking
Tobacco remains the most significant cause of premature death in the EU, responsible for almost 700,000 deaths every year. The European Union and its...

EFA takes a stand on the Fitness Check of the Ambient Air Quality legislation

06 September 2017
EU
- Air Quality
EFA has responded to the European Comission procedure to assess the added value of the aimbient air quality directive. This novel process, called...

More Europe for better innovation for health and wellbeing

06 September 2017
Europe
- Healthcare, - Medicines
Europe is in an ideal position to take the leading role health and wellbeing’ according to the new editorial of Progress and Preventive Medicine “Viva...