Under the auspices of EBC, the World Health Organisation, the Italian Ministry of Health and the Lombardy Region, the IRCCS Foundation “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute hold an event in Milan today on “INNOVATION AND RESEARCH FOR HEALTHY AGEING: new questions for research and new answers from innovation” as a complementary event to the G7 Ministries of Health meeting. [...]
The EBC Newsletter for October 2017 can be accessed here.
The EBC Newsletter for September 2017 can be accessed here.
Only 2% of Poles admit to have brain disorder - results of a Polish Brain Plan related survey revealed during the press conference in Warsaw In November 2015, the EBC launched a Call to Action, calling on the European Commission to come forward with a European strategy to tackle brain health, and on European countries [...]
EBC is pleased to announce that a Portuguese Brain Council ("Conselho Português para o Cérebro – Associação CPC") was established this October, following a stakeholder meeting at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. The Council aims to facilitate cooperation between patient organizations, scientific societies and individual experts in Portugal. Furthermore, improving care and [...]
Registration for the upcoming EBC event Brain Health: The digital future is on its way is now open. Hosted by MEPs Mr. Michał Boni and Mr. Carlos Zorrinho, the event will explore how digital technology for healthcare can benefit the brain, and how we can ensure that these benefits reach the people who need it most. Read [...]
EBC Executive Director Frédéric Destrebecq traveled to Tallinn today to take part in the eHealth Tallinn 2017 high-level conference. The event centred around 'Health in the Digital Society. Digital Society for Health' and was organised by the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs as part of Estonia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, ECHAlliance and HIMSS [...]
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, which this year focuses on Mental Health at the Workplace. It is the 25th year of World Mental Health Day, an initiative that each year aims to raise awareness on mental health and the continued issues people living with mental health conditions go through on a day to [...]
EBC is pleased to announce that a Portuguese Brain Council was established this October, following a stakeholder meeting at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. The Council aims to facilitate cooperation between patient organizations, scientific societies and individual experts in Portugal. Furthermore, improving care and treatment of patients living with nervous system [...]
Stichting Platform CADASIL recently joined as member of the Dutch Brain Council (DBC), which makes the DBC one of the fastest growing patient platforms in the Netherlands. The work of the foundation revolves around supporting research into Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) and increasing awareness about this condition among the [...]
