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EFCCA is hiring!

We are opening a position for Project Officer of Horizon Europe projects The chosen candidate will be responsible for the overall administration and management support of H2020/ HE projects and will also actively contribute to the preparation of other project proposals. Main activities and responsibilities overall responsibility for the complete management of the project in close...

A Patient´s Guide to Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

A Patient's Guide to Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease is written by Prof. Darija Vranešić Bender, clinical nutritionist  and Prof. Željko Krznarić, gastroenterologist and hepatologist, experts from University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia. The Guide is a result of long collaboration between the Referral center for IBD at the University Hospital Zagreb, Department of gastroenterology and...

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Open Your Mind

Open Your Mind! ...is the name of a game developed by our colleagues from Crohn & Colitis NL to talk with your family, friends, doctors, colleagues etc in an innovative way about IBD. This is an excellent idea and the game that was well appreciated by our EFCCA delegates who found out about it during our General Assembly in Barclona (2022) and also had a chance to also play it You...

IBD patients in Ukraine

Our colleagues from the Ukrainian IBD patient association ¨Fulfilling Life" have prepared this important survey on the current situation of IBD patients affected by the war in Ukraine.  The survey gives an overview of the immediate effects, medical care during the war as well as other urgent aspects. DOWNLOAD SURVEY

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IBD has no age - World IBD Day 2022

This year, for World IBD Day 2022, EFCCA would like to raise awareness about the impact IBD has on elderly people. Under the slogan IBD has no age we want to put the focus on elderly people (60 plus) and see how living with Crohn´s disease and Ulcerative Colitis (collectively known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease) is impacting on their quality of life and care.  Why a...

World IBD Day 2022 - Purple Talk - IBD has no age

On the occasion of World IBD Day, on 19 May 2022 we organised a Purple Talk on “IBD has no age”. It was an excellent opportunity to raise awareness around the issue of IBD in the elderly. Our discussions included a presentation of the IBD has no age campaign, a presentation from IBD researcher  Dr Vera Asscher, Leiden University Medical Center, followed by an in-...

Symposium on Innovations in Gastroenterology

We are pleased to announce a new initiative, "Innovations in Gastroenterology, 2017 Symposium” to be held in Tel Aviv, January 4-6, 2017. This will be an exclusive event where gastroenterologists, researchers, and the pharmaceutical industry from all over the world can meet and learn about novel emerging technologies as well as practical gastroenterology and hepatology. We have mentioned this...

Artificial Nutrition

PACIFHAN assists people travelling with Home Artificial Nutrition “To travel is to live” Hans Christian Andersen Imagine having a complex medical condition and treatment that enables you to live but, when it comes to travelling could pose problems if you find yourself in a medical situation unable to converse in the local language. PACIFHAN is the International Alliance of Patient...

"From Health System Sustainability To Promoting Inclusive Growth" - Conference Report

The Lithuanian Health Forum Conference held in Vilnius was organised to consolidate and address the policies, goals, and objectives of the Vilnius Declaration’s “Sustainable Health Systems for Inclusive Growth”, which was developed and circulated internationally during the 2013 European Council Presidency. Hosted by the Lithuanian Parliament, the conference on the 5th of September addressed...

MEPs propose ways to make medicines more affordable

New medicine prices in the EU have risen over the past few decades, to the point of being unaffordable for many EU citizens and threatening the sustainability of national health care systems.  To strike a better balance between EU countries’ public health interests and those of the pharmaceutical industry, it calls for measures to improve the traceability of R&D costs, public funding...