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    By Anna Sauerbier         This year the World Parkinson Congress (WPC) was held in the beautiful city of Portland in Oregon, USA, on September 20-23.
The WPC is an international congress in which patients with… Continue Reading

In 2016, the European Federation of Neurological Associations [EFNA] launched its Training Initiatives for Neurology Advocates [TINA].
For many years EFNA has run workshops on Health Technology Assessment and, more recently, Pharmaceutical Policy – Pricing, Access and Reimbursement at the… Continue Reading

Invisible disability is a term that captures a whole spectrum of hidden symptoms or challenges that are primarily neurological in nature. Many brain and brain-related disorders cause symptoms that are not obvious to an onlooker. These symptoms can include pain,… Continue Reading

    By Anna Sauerbier         New understanding of how Alzheimer’s develops https://erc.europa.eu/projects-and-results/erc-stories/new-understanding-how-alzheimers-develops Air pollutants strongly linked to Alzheimer’s http://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/air-pollutants-strongly-linked-to-alzheimers/ MODEM modelling outcome and cost impacts of interventions for dementia http://www.modem-dementia.org.uk/ The Human Brain Project and the… Continue Reading

Healthcare professionals’ working party elects co-chair The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Healthcare Professionals’ Working Party (HCPWP) has re-elected Prof. Gonzalo Calvo as its co-chair at the September 2016 meeting. Prof. M. de Visser, EAN Treasurer, is the EAN delegate to… Continue Reading

The 20th congress of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (IPDMS) was recently held at the City Cube in Berlin, Germany. The 5-day congress started on Sunday the 19th of June 2016 with excellent therapeutic plenary sessions updating the… Continue Reading

    by Anna Sauerbier         Call for European History of Neuroscience Online Projects http://www.fens.org/News-Activities/News/20161/07/Call-for-European-History-of-Neuroscience-Online-Projects/ EpilepsyDiagnosis.org http://www.ilae.org/Commission/Class/diagnostic.cfm Roadmap for Classification of the Epilepsies http://www.ilae.org/Visitors/Centre/Class-Roadmap.cfm Exercise ability in middle age may be one key to longer life http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-fitness-men-mortality-idUSKCN1062SC… Continue Reading

A calendar of planned open public consultations has been published on ’Your voice in Europe’. The direct link to the calendar is: http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/consultations/docs/planned-consultations-2016_en.pdf.     European Commission – Calendar of public consultations – 2016 was last modified: August 25th, 2016… Continue Reading

The European Commission further strengthened its top managers by appointing four Deputy Directors-General as of 1 September 2016. More can be found in the Press Release. Dr Ruxandra Draglia Akli, currently Director Health in DG Research and Innovation, has been… Continue Reading

Worth €8.5 billion, the 2017 tranche of the EU’s Horizon 2020 flagship science funding program has a jobs focus in 2017,  especially improving migrant integration into labor markets. More here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-2604_en.htm 2017 Research work program released was last modified: December… Continue Reading

      By Anna Sauerbier     A successful MS fundraising story http://www.emsp.org/news-messages/2878/ What does quality care mean? http://www.eu-patient.eu/Members/Weekly-Mailing/quality-care-survey/ Countries start to act on non-communicable diseases but need to speed up efforts to meet global commitments http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2016/noncommunicable-diseases-global-commitments/en/ Presenting a… Continue Reading

The Swiss Association of Young Neurologists (SAYN) was founded on the 31st of October 2014 in Interlaken during the annual meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society (SNS) by a group of young and enthusiastic Neurology trainees. It was supported by and organised from the beginning on as part of the SNS. Since inception the SAYN is structured as an executive committee and core group.

MEPs to Welcome Scientists STOA will host, on 8 November 2016, the second ‘Science meets Parliaments’ event, in cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). This annual event aims at promoting evidence-based policy-making and enables open and direct… Continue Reading