News from EAN member societies

News from EMA: First oral treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) recommended for approval

EMA is organising a webinar on “COVID-19 vaccination – what you need to know as a health professional” to reply to concerns and questions that health professionals might have about COVID-19 vaccines.

Personalized plans, blood biomarkers and early interventions: Think Brain Health conference highlights

The Scientific Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases wishes to bring the below breaking news to the attention of the readership.

2020 - BioMed Alliance celebrates 10 years of existence

Together with medical societies from the Open Access Transition Working Group of the BioMed Alliance we published a statement on 5 October highlighting a series of concerns around Plan S.

A new draft proposal for the Innovative Health Initiative (the next European Partnership for Health Innovation and successor to the IMI) was released last month and proposes to establish an Innovation Panel.

Written by Kate Boor Ellis On 21 September 2020, Alzheimer Europe marked World Alzheimer’s Day with a social media campaign, calling attention to the damage COVID-19 is doing to the field of dementia research, together with a call for urgent… Continue Reading

In a new statement published on 3 September, the BioMed Alliance calls on the German Council Presidency to guide Member States into adopting a position on the Regulation for Cooperation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as soon as possible.

Alzheimer Europe calls for urgent action to address the impact of COVID-19 on dementia research

Professor Tissa Wijeratne and Professor Wolfgang Grisold have teamed up on an expert article for the World Brain Day "Move together to End Parkinson's Disease".

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Neurology Published by the Turkish Neurological Society COVID-19 COMMITTEE

The EMA Inspections Office together with the Good Clinical Practice Inspectors Working Group (GCP-IWG) is seeking to identify patients and healthcare professional experts who could share their experience with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field, particularly to discuss practical use cases and challenges validating AI tools.

From the Spanish Society of Neurology, it is our pleasure to share with our European colleagues the Handbook on COVID-19 management for Neurologists.

EBRA launches 3rd call for clusters