BioMed Alliance provides feedback to Plan S

As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Oslo 2019. Please find their answers below!

EAN Guideline Production Group is happy to announce the participants for the European guideline education and Cost-Conscious Healthcare (CoCoCare) programme - pilot project aimed at filling the education gap between the importance of medical guidelines for cost-effective healthcare and the fact that this matter is rarely included in medical training programs.

The EBRA project is an EU project coordinated by the European Brain Council (EBC), which launched on 1 November 2018. EBRA was designed to respond to the Horizon 2020 call, SC1-HCO-10-2018, entitled “Coordinating European brain research and developing global initiatives” and will create a catalysing initiative for brain research stakeholders (researchers, clinicians, patients, governments, funders and public institutions) to streamline and better co-ordinate brain research across Europe while fostering global initiatives.

EMA has published a booklet describing the journey of a medicine for human use authorised through EMA, from initial research to discussions on patient access to medicines across the EU. It can be found here.

We are happy to welcome you at the Oslo City Hall, where the annual Nobel Peace Price ceremony is taking place. Seize the opportunity to visit an impressive place while meeting the speakers and colleagues from all over the world!

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.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted me a training research fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at University of Oxford.

The Norwegian population is small, stable, and well organized. Despite having seen increasing urbanization and immigration in recent years, the population of 5.3 million inhabitants is remarkably stable. Specialist health services are close to 100 % publicly financed and equally available to all. All inhabitants have unique Personal Identification Numbers and can easily be identified across a broad range of mandatory and voluntary public registries. Seventeen central, mandatory health registries are being used for health analysis and statistics, quality improvement, research, administration and emergency preparedness. These include the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, Norwegian Patient Registry and Norwegian Prescription Database.

The EAN Scientific Committee met on Sunday, March 03, 2019 at the EAN Head Office in Vienna for the first time in its new configuration. The focus of the Scientific Committee (SC) for the next two years is to increase the exchanges, synergies and interactions with the Scientific Panels, that are the backbone of the European Academy of Neurology.

The March issue of the European Journal of Neurology is online!

There are companies, websites and/or individuals who incorrectly claim or imply that they are partners of the 5th EAN Congress.

Around 9.1 million people in Europe have dementia and these numbers are expected to increase to 14 million people by 2040, due to the ageing of European societies. With no disease-modifying treatment currently available and varied access to diagnosis, treatment and high quality care across Member States, EU institutions must show leadership by making dementia a priority in the fields of health, research and innovation, and social affairs.

Stress reduction of patients undergoing surgical interventions

Dear colleagues and friends, I am very excited that the EAN-family will meet again in Oslo in less than three months. I can assure you that all preparations are full on track.