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Can Eltrombopag help children with ITP say goodbye to bleeding?
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare disease in children, affecting 5 in 100,000. Most children get better quickly without intervention but up to 30% will still have disease at 12 months.
Burnouts: when caregivers become patients
Author: Côme Bommier (Young EHA Ambassador)
Affiliations: Hôpital St-Louis (Paris, France) & Mayo Clinic (Rochester MN, USA)
A survey will be released in September to further map burnout
among hematology professionals in Europe.
IVDR
As of May 26, 2022, the new EU In Vitro Diagnostic medical devices Regulation (IVDR) comes into effect.
Read moreEHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Patient-centered Geriatric Hematology - report
Live sessions: October 6-7, 2021
Chairs: Prof R Cordoba (Spain) and Dr V Goede (Germany)
An international group of hematologists, specialist nurses, patient advocates, geriatricians, basic research, and pharma representatives gathered digitally to participate in this meeting.
Adding elotuzumab to standard treatment for multiple myeloma significantly reduced the risk of disease progression, with benefits sustained at two years
ELOQUENT-2, which evaluated elotuzumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone, is the first Phase III study to demonstrate the benefit of directly activating the immune system in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
Read moreEuropean Affairs Committee
Committee members
Elizabeth Macintyre, France (Chair)
Antonio Almeida, Portugal
Natacha Bolaños, Spain (Patient advocate)
Lorenzo Brunetti, Italy
Raffaella Colombatti, Italy
Julio Delgado, Spain
Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, France (Advisory member)
Tarec El-Galaly, Denmark
Martin Kaiser, Germany
Frank Leebeek, The Netherlands (Advisory member)
Kate Morgan, United Kingdom (Patient advocate)
Marek Mraz, Czech Republic
Kostas Stamatopoulos, Greece
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