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Report Drug Shortages to EHA

In an effort to mitigate shortages of hematologic drugs in Europe, EHA is collecting and compiling reports of shortages. Are you experiencing, or foreseeing drug shortages in your clinical practice?

Please report those to drugshortage@ehaweb. org.

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European Hematology Association tentatively responds to the European Commission’s proposal to improve clinical research

In addition, the regulation appears to accommodate multi-national trials with, for instance, a harmonized authorization dossier, and a single submission system.

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International Call to Action to Alleviate Drug Shortages

The common call to action seeks first to raise awareness of shortages of drugs among hematologists.

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José Carreras Award handed out at the 17th Congress of EHA

He has made seminal contributions to myeloma cell biology. These included studies of the diagnostic and prognostic roles of immunophenotyping, morphology and molecular genetics together with investigation of disease evolution and the significance of minimal residual disease.

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Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: impressive results with the monoclonal antibody blinatumomab

The Phase 2 dose-ranging study MT103-206 evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of blinatumomab in adult patients with B-precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia who had relapsed following treatment with standard front-line chemotherapy or allogeneic stem cell transplant.

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How malignant cells in patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia escape T cell recognition and attack

T cell activation is essential for immunity including the recognition and killing of abnormal target cells such as cancerous cells.

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Reduction of chemotherapy and PET-guided radiotherapy in advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma: the GHSG HD15 trial

Using the multi-agent chemotherapy regimen BEACOPP the GHSG demonstrated significantly better tumor control and overall survival compared to previously used regimens. In addition, the need for radiotherapy in patients with advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma has been unclear.

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EHA supports the European Medicines Agency's investigation into risk based quality management of clinical trials

EHA has responded to the EMA’s call for comments on the reflection paper on February 15.

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Report "Haematology and the next European Decade"

EHA and the European Cancer Patient Coalition co-hosted a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels on August 30-31, 2011. The two-day conference was attended by doctors, researchers, parliamentarians, patient advocates and Commission officials.

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New at EHA 15: EHA-JSH Joint Symposium

On behalf of JSH Dr Toshiki Watanabe will speak about "Molecular pathogenesis of ATL". Dr Herman Einsele presents EHA with his lecture "New treatments strategies for EBV-associated LPD as a model for immunotherapy of virus-associated/induced tumors".

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