Press Releases

This archive provides you with our latest as well as prior press releases in reverse chronological order.

Everyone is talking about the impending Football World Cup: but there are also dangers for allergics?

Tuesday, 06. June 2006     Category: Press Releases

Allergy expert from the Charité gives advice for affected football players

Youth Work Centre Learns About Allergies

Friday, 12. May 2006     Category: Press Releases

Why do people have an allergic reaction to mites? How does hay fever and allergic asthma develop? Which cells in the human body are responsible for the development of allergies?

ECARF awards quality seal for the Hollywood Media Hotel in Berlin

Friday, 28. April 2006     Category: ECARF Quality Seal, Services

For the first time the European Center for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF), located in the Department of Dermatology and Allergy Charité, has awarded one of Berlin's grand hotels the "ECARF Quality Seal for Allergy-Friendly Products...

Network set to contain soaring costs of asthma

Friday, 07. April 2006     Category: Press Releases

Professor Torsten Zuberbier, Head of Allergy Centre Charité and Secretary-General of the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA²LEN) will give a worrying insight into the human and financial costs of asthma in Europe at a press...

New insights into the development of allergies

Thursday, 06. April 2006     Category: Press Releases

Annual Conference of the European Allergy and Asthma Network GA²LEN

European Center for Allergy Research Foundation awards research prize

Monday, 27. March 2006     Category: Press Releases

Aiming at the promotion of research in the field of dermatology and neighboring disciplines, the European Center for Allergy Research Foundation - ECARF awarded last weekend the "ADF/ECARF Award for European Research", which is endowed...

Allergy Centre Charite receives new pollen measuring station for the pollen forecast in Berlin

Tuesday, 21. February 2006     Category: Press Releases

With the beginning of this year´s pollen season, the Charite in Berlin starts to run its own pollen-measuring station which will take the pollen counts for Berlin. The station is located on the roof of the Department for Dermatology and...

ECARF at the Berlin Vital health fair - information on allergies and sports

Wednesday, 15. February 2006     Category: Press Releases

The annual conference 2006 of the European Network of Allergy and Asthma GA²LEN and the Berlin Vital, the fair for athletic activity and wellness, take place at the same time at the fairgrounds "Palais am Funkturm".

"100 years of allergy" congress in Berlin, Palais am Funkturm

Thursday, 09. February 2006     Category: Press Releases

The word allergy was first coined as a medical term in 1906 by the Viennese pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet.

A new patient guidebook for people suffering from nettle rush (urticaria) has been published?

Tuesday, 10. January 2006     Category: Press Releases

At present, the patient guidebook is available only in German language.

Allergy-friendly community Bad Hindelang

Holiday destination in the Allgäu region certified as allergy-friendly by ECARF

Information about the pilot project

Press release about the certification of Bad Hindelang

Information about the certification of Bad Hindelang

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Allergy Facts and Figures

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ECARF - Network

GARD Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Institut für Produktqualität
Global Allergy and Asthma European Network
MeDALL - Mechanisms of the Development of Allergy
Allergic Rhinitis and it's Impact on Asthma
Autoinflammation Reference Center Charité
Autoinflammation Network e.V.
Urticaria Network e.V. Informationsportal für Urtikaria-Betroffene
STERN Ratgeber Allergie

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