NewsYear: 2017Activity: Etiological epidemiology

Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organization show, highlighting improvements made on collecting data and statistics (...)

The LifeCycle project, which also involves the University of Turin and NINFEA cohort, marks the start of an ambitious initiative: to establish a European network of cohort studies of newborns, translating the results obtained from research in strategic prevention recommendations (...)

The weight of the economic crisis and the new scenarios introduced by globalization will waver many certainties, including the sustainability of welfare and, in particular, of the National Health Service. The latest Osservasalute report provides a careful and accurate analysis of the situation in Italy (...)

Asbestos is not a problem of the past. There are more than 1600 new cases of mesothelioma occurring every year in Italy, and it is estimated that asbestos cancers are at least as numerous. An open-to-public conference is pointing to an ongoing topic (...)

The course, scheduled to take place in Turin on June 13 and 14, is intended to provide an overview of the Bayesian methodology applied to biomedical data (...)

A national and European initiative, aimed at studying mesothelioma, through investment in pre-clinical research to identify the causes of the disease and identify new drugs and new therapies, is starting (...)

The exhibition path set up in Turin, from May 10 to June 9, allows the visitor to know and deepen the different aspects of a natural as well as dangerous natural material (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

This year, the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology pre-course week will be dedicated to the environmental epidemiology, articulating its educational offer on two important topics: Exposome and GIS (...)

The book "40 Years of Health in Turin. Ideas for reading needs and the results of policies", by Giuseppe Costa, Morena Stroscia, Nicolás Zengarini and Moreno Demaria, has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from the Epidemiology & Prevention website (...)

On March 28, the conference "The importance of birth cohort studies: epidemiology, public health and citizens' engagement", organized by the Behavioral Science Reference Center and the Mental Health Institute of Health and the Department Epidemiology of the Regional Health Service - ASL ROMA 1, will be held in Rome (...)

It is still possible to apply to the XXX edition of the summer courses organized by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology that take place as usual in Florence and are turning to university students from all over the world (...)