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EFCCA breaking news nr. 5/2011

DUBLIN - ECCO CONGRESS. EFCCA CONSOLIDATES COOPERATION WITH ECCO. As every year EFCCA participated in the ECCO Congress held in Dublin from 24 to 26 February 2011. A boot and dissemination material were at disposal of the congress participants. The ECCO Congress was attended by over 3000 delegates consisting mainly of doctors and other healthcare professionals and provided...

EFCCA breaking news nr. 4/2011

Adoption of the Code of Conduct removes the last barrier to the formal conclusion of the UNCRPD The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which entered into force on 3 May 2008, is the first human rights Convention signed by the EU. All EU Member States have signed the UNCRPD and a majority has signed its Optional Protocol too. The next step,...

EFCCA breaking news nr. 3/2011

EUROPEAN MEDICINE AGENCY NEW WEB SITE Rod Mitchell, our former Chair, who is currently the IAPO alternate at the European Medicines Agency Patient & Consumer Working Party sent us this relevant news. Being EFCCA a IAPO member I am more than pleased to circulate it to you all. Patient and associated organisations together with other interested parties may like to be reminded that the...

EFCCA breaking news nr. 1/2011

WORLD IBD DAY 19 MAY 2011 Here we are again and happy 2011 to you all! A new year just started and EFCCA is pleased to inform you all that the date for the second World IBD DAY has been finally agreed. It will be again May the 19th all over the world with a new entry association being part of the worldwide platform: New Zealand! EFCCA is willing to collect all the ideas...

EFCCA Annual General Meeting 2014

Commissioner Borgh addressing EFCCA General Assembly Commissioner Borgh from the European Commission´s Directorate for Health and Consumers welcomed delegates to the  24 General Assembly of EFCCA which took place in Graz (Austria) from 3-6 April 2014.   In his pre-recorded speech Commissioner Borgh acknowledged and applauded the work of EFCCA and showed his support to the...

Survey on IBD patients' perception of Surgery

An international online survey promoted by the European Federation Of Crohn’s And Ulcerative Colitis Associations (EFCCA) with the Scientific Support of and international team of experts led by Professor Antonino Spinelli, M.D., Ph.D. and Professor Francesco Pagnini, Psy.D., Ph.D.   As many of you may remember, this important project was presented at the EFCCA General Assembly in 2013. The...

UEG Week Barcelona 2015

October 24-28, 2015, Barcelona, Spain UEG Week is the largest and most prestigious meeting of its kind in Europe, and many consider it to be the best digestive diseases meeting in the world. It has been running since 1992 and now attracts more than 14,000 people from across the world. It features the latest advances in clinical management, the best research in GI and liver...

World IBD Day 2015

This year more than 40 countries across the globe  joined  together in a unified effort to raise awareness about Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in honor of  World IBD Day, held every year on May 19. This year’s efforts centered around a global video campaign encouraging anyone impacted by IBD to share their story in a short video with the unifying theme of  “United We...

EFCCA at European Commission workshop on Biosimilars

On 6 October 2015 the European Commission´s  Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), organized a workshop on Access to and Uptake of Biosimilar Medicinal Products. The objective of the workshop were to gather all relevant interested parties in order to facilitate a multi-stakeholder exchange of information, experiences and reflection on the...

Symptom Tracker

MyUC.eu After the initial testing phase, this new tool to support patients with Ulcerative Colitis in keeping track of daily changes and improvements with the disease is finally available. If you would like to use the tool, register on the homepage and let us know your impressions. Please check out the tool at: http://myuc.eu/   Any feedback please send  to Isabella Haaf...