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There is little patient-centered research aimed at assessing patients' perceived impact of smoking or nicotine use on their Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Therefore, EFCCA is supporting a survey on the perceived effect of smoking/nicotine use on the symptoms and progression of Crohn's disease...

EFCCA is embarking on exciting new research with Takeda to find out the impact of complex perianal fistulae on quality of life from Crohn’s disease patients’ perspective. Crohn’s disease patients both with and without perianal fistulae are invited to participate.

The questionnaire has...

‘IBD and Me’
Teenage Transition Website

The transition from paediatric to adult care for young people living with IBD is ideally a staged process where young adults are gradually integrated into adult care. Viewing this...

Stricter rules to ensure that medical devices such as breast or hip implants are traceable and comply with EU patient safety requirements were backed by MEPs on Wednesday. MEPs also approved laws to tighten up information and ethical requirements for diagnostic medical devices, e.g. for...

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...

On 15^th November 2016, more than 70 patient advocates and physicians from across the European Union attended the Patient Advocacy and Safety conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. 

The aim of the conference was to explore the topic of biologics and...

The European Commission DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, have published  6 new language versions of the patient information document "What you need to...

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...

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...