20/10/2021
In a statement published on 18 October, the Coaliton for Vaccination, where FEAM is an associate member, advises flu vaccination, especially for at-risk groups and healthcare professionals. In 2020-21, the influenza activity in Europe remained at a low level throughout the flu season, due to various public health and social measures implemented to reduce transmission […]
Vaccination
05/10/2021
On 25 November, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), with the support of Novartis, is hosting a joint activity discussing and examining drug development within the European Union and beyond. Prior to the arrival of any medicine on the market, each product goes through a lengthy research and development process which is tested for […]
FEAM Forum
05/10/2021
Dutch expertise in the field of drug development is too fragmented, with researchers’ efforts to get their discoveries to the patient being frustrated. National coordination is therefore needed to support researchers and promote cooperation. That will make drug development faster and more effective and give patients better access to new therapies. This is what the […]
Academies
04/10/2021
Timothy Yeung was the guest on the sixth episode of PERISCOPE Monthly Talks. In this episode he talked about health governance during the pandemic. Timothy Yeung is a Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Associate Researcher at the Leuven Center for Empirical Jurisprudence of KU Leuven in Belgium. If you want […]
PERISCOPE
21/09/2021
On 26 October, the FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum will organise an event on “The impact of COVID-19 on routine vaccination“. From 12:00 to 13:30 (CET), experts from European authorities and stakeholders will provide an overview on the impact that COVID-19 had on routine vaccination. In the first semester of 2020, pandemic measures to […]
FEAM Forum
20/09/2021
On 9 September, FEAM published a statement on Shortages of Medicines, setting out a list of recommendations to address this issue. In this interview, Professor Bruno Bonnemain (French Academy of Pharmacy), one of the experts who contributed to the statement, talks about the definition of shortages of medicines and the importance of addressing this challenge. […]
FEAM
16/09/2021
In the September issue of our newsletter, we introduce FEAM’s new board, our two new colleagues, Dr. Emma Martinez and Patrick Hurst, and look at the various areas of FEAM’s work.
FEAM
09/09/2021
To address the current situation regarding shortages of medicines, a pan-European approach is needed to harmonise data collection across Europe and encourage multidisciplinary discussions to find broad solutions, health experts say. In the statement on Shortages of Medicines, published today (9 September), the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) and its Member Academies call […]
FEAM
31/08/2021
On 29 September, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) and its partners in the PERISCOPE project will organise the workshop “COVID-19 health inequalities in Europe“. From 10AM to 1PM (CET), researchers, policymakers and other interested stakeholders, including civil society, will discuss about the key points of the report on the health inequalities impacts […]
COVID-19 / FEAM / Health inequalities / PERISCOPE
23/08/2021
Earlier this month, the lead authors of the report “International Sharing of Personal Health Data for Research” published a comment in the journal Nature Medicine. The paper, presented by members of FEAM, ALLEA and EASAC, summarises the main findings of the joint report, published last April. The paper authored by Heidi Beate Bentzen, Rosa Castro, […]
FEAM / ITHD
20/08/2021
The fifth episode of PERISCOPE Project Monthly Talks focus on the effects of the pandemic on mental health. Professor Walter Osika was the invitee to discuss this topic. He is co-founder and director of the Centre for Social Sustainability, as well as an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, in Karolinska Institutet, […]
PERISCOPE
30/07/2021
A new IAP Statement highlights medical opportunities in addressing the causes of disease and warns against the misuse of regenerative medicine technologies – also when it comes to the proposed use of stem cells to tackle COVID-19 Regenerative medicine, including the use of tissue engineering and cell and gene therapies, has great potential for tissue regeneration and repair. […]
COVID-19 / Regenerative Medicine
16/07/2021
Professor George Griffin, FEAM Vice-President, will participate in the event “Routine vaccinations in time of COVID-19 across Europe: a multi-stakeholder evaluation“. This initiative, which will take place on 20 July (Tuesday), is organised by the Active Citizenship Network (ACN) and is being held as part of the EU webinar cycle ‘Health at the heart […]
FEAM / Vaccination
14/07/2021
UK participation in Horizon Europe The UK will associate to the EU’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme which will run from 2021 to 2027. The European Commission has published a Q&A document on the UK’s participation in Horizon Europe. As the first calls of Horizon Europe are launched, the Q&A confirms that UK […]
Human genome editing
09/07/2021
The new vice-president of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), Dr. Luis Martí-Bonmatí, has highlighted to EFE the importance that in emergency situations such as the current pandemic, both policies and scientists and the flow of data from the different countries “be coordinated.” Martí-Bonmatí, director of the Clinical Medical Imaging Area of the […]
Human genome editing
01/07/2021
On this Thursday (1 July), we join the European Animal Research Association (EARA) in “Be Open about Animal Research Day”: #BOARD21. This global social media campaign aims to celebrate the increasingly proactive approach by the biomedical community to communicate about animal research. Professor Stefan Constantinescu, FEAM President, stressed the importance of animal research. Without it, […]
One Health
22/06/2021
The votes of the 23 FEAM academies to elect the federation’s new board were known at the end of May. Professor Stefan Constantinescu, fellow of the Romanian and Royal Belgian Academies of Medicine, will be the new FEAM President for the next three years (2021-2024). In this interview, Professor Stefan Constantinescu speaks about his new […]
FEAM
22/06/2021
The votes of the 23 FEAM academies to elect the federation’s new board were known at the end of May. Professor George, who has led FEAM for the past three years (2018-2021), will now move to the position of Vice-President and will continue to follow the Federation’s progress. In this interview, the Fellow of the […]
FEAM
18/06/2021
The European Health Stakeholder Group, in which FEAM takes part, welcomes the results of the Article 93 Committee vote on the UK data protection regime on 16 June. EU Member States voted unanimously in favour to approve the adequacy decision which means that the flow of personal data from the EU to the UK […]
Data protection
10/06/2021
Much has happened since the last two months. FEAM elected a new Board, published two reports (ECDC and HERA) and three new partners joined the FEAM Forum. See the latest news from FEAM.
FEAM / Newsletter
