Alzheimer Europe’s 30th Annual Conference #30AEC, which was planned to take place in Bucharest, will now be a virtual conference, under the banner “Dementia in a changing world”
The European Brain Research Area project – EBRA – was created as a catalyzing platform for brain
research stakeholders (researchers, clinicians, patients, governments, funders
and public institutions) to streamline and better coordinate brain research
across Europe while fostering global initiatives.… Continue Reading
Discussions during last year’s Spring Meeting and General Assembly showed that BioMed Alliance Members are affected by Plan S. Due to COVID-19, adaptation to the open access initiative within the foreseen timeline has become even more challenging for medical societies.… Continue Reading
At an online meeting organised by Alzheimer
Europe, representatives from 22 national Alzheimer’s associations from 19
European countries adopted a call to governments and national health systems to
urgently increase the infrastructure for intensive care needed for people
affected by… Continue Reading
Postponement of the application of the Medical Devices
Regulation
The
European Commission adopted a proposal to postpone the application date of the
Medical Devices regulation by one year, to 26 May 2021. The postponement is
supposed to give authorities, manufacturers… Continue Reading
The latest revision (v3) of the Guidance on how to manage clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic was published on 28 April. This
version contains key changes based also on the feedback from different
stakeholders’ groups (patients’ organisations, academia and… Continue Reading
Since January 31st, Coronavirus has spread along all the Spanish territory; however, some regions are particularly compromised in terms of number of cases: Madrid, Catalonia, Basque Country and the two Castillian regions. The total number of confirmed cases is about to surpass Italy. We hope to be reaching the plateau of the curve, after all the implemented social distancing measures.
On October 12-15, the Italian society of neurology (SIN, Società Italiana di Neurologia) celebrated its 50th congress in Bologna. Bologna has the oldest Italian University, founded in 1088, and is the town of many outstanding Italian neuroscientists. Moreover, Bologna has been the nest of some of the major European schools in the field of epilepsy and sleep medicine.
In this article, we present an overview of this year’s European Congress of Neurorehabilitation, organized in the beautiful city of Budapest between 9-12 October 2019, hosted by one of our closest partners - the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation Societies (EFNR). The EFNR is an international organization dedicated to research, education, intellectual and scientific exchange, advocacy, and philanthropic activities in the field of neurorehabilitation medicine and related professional areas of expertise.
Between the 25th and 28th of September 2019, the German Neurological Society (deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie – DGN) held its annual congress at the International Congresscenter in Stuttgart, Germany. As one of the largest neurological gatherings in Europe it was attended by approximately 5,500 health professionals associated with Neurology.
The Swiss Young Sleep Wake Chronobiology Network (SYSWCN) was founded in 2016, as part of the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine, and Chronobiology (SSSSC). The SYSWCN is very interdisciplinary organised and aims to connect young researchers and clinicians within Switzerland independent of their subfield, background, or clinical speciality
Now in its third edition, the national conference of Italian young neurologists is one of the cornerstones of the congressional calendar for Italian residents in Neurology.