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by Anna Sauerbier   Research and Innovation performance and Horizon 2020 country participation
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/research-and-innovation-performance-and-horizon-2020-country-participation Health at a Glance: Chronic disease costs European economy €115B a year
http://sciencebusiness.net/health/news/2016/health-at-a-glance-chronic-disease-costs-european-economy-115b-a-year/ Public-private European partnership (ROADMAP) paves the way for sustainable platform for the generation… Continue Reading

The 6th Congress of Neurologists of R. Macedonia with international participation & II International Ohrid Meeting took place in Ohrid, R. Macedonia, from 21st-24th of September, 2016.

In January 2015, the French Society of Neurology organised a meeting in Paris where 6 speakers of the DGN were invited, together with the newly elected President of the European Academy of Neurology, Pr. Günther Deuschl. This was the first… Continue Reading

    By Anna Sauerbier         Human Brain Project – 4th Annual Summit From 12 to 15 October more than 430 participants (scientists, students, members of Partnering Projects) attended the fourth annual summit of the Human Brain… Continue Reading

    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