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The new national legislation on tobacco control is an important step towards greater protection of public health from damage is resulting from tobacco consumption is associated with exposure to secondhand smoke (...)

Meeting in L'Aquila on 14 and 15 April, the IEA Spring Conference whose theme will be: epidemiology, surveillance and research to coincide with catastrophic events (...)

The multicenter study "Active surveillance or radical treatment at diagnosis for prostate tumors at low risk (START)", sponsored by the Cancer Network of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in collaboration with the CPO Piemonte, has started patient enrollment (...)

The 5th Report of National Mesothelioma Registry contains, in addition to epidemiological measures of incidence, latency, mean age at diagnosis and survival, even data on exposure to asbestos for malignant mesothelioma cases reported by the networks of centers Regional Operations (...)

The new NINFEA project website is online. The redesign, structural, graphic and textual, has became necessary after more than ten years after the start of recruitment and coincides with the launch of the questionnaire of the 10 years of the child (...)

The European Environmental Agency reaffirms once again that air pollution remains the main environmental risk factor for health, reducing the length of people's lives and contributing to the spread of serious diseases such as heart disease, respiratory problems and cancer (...)

On February 4, we celebrate the World Cancer Day, an initiative promoted worldwide by the World Health Organization to raise awareness on issues related to the prevention prevention, primary and secondary education, and the fight against cancer, with particular emphasis on areas of life and work (...)

The European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers approved the text of the new European Data Protection Regulation, which will replace by 2018 the national legislation on protection of personal data in the research (...)

Born in Turin the first university free laboratory about fundraising dedicated to students, researchers and young graduates which aims to develop in participants the ability to raise money to fund research (...)

Women in Piemonte, among the first in Italy to have had access to a program for the prevention of breast cancer, will rely more and more on customized screening and technologically innovative strategies (...)

Screening for cervical cancer with the HPV test it is going to gradually replace the traditional Pap test, putting Piemonte region at the forefront in terms of secondary prevention of cervical cancer (...)

The annual workshop of the CPO Piemonte is an opportunity both to review the experience of the activity and to outline future goals that enable to maintain the quality standards always pursued within the regional program Prevenzione Serena (...)

A meeting dedicated to the operators of the regional network of epidemiology designed to illustrate the progress made to date and define the lines of development for the near future with regard to the Regional Health Information System will be held in Turin, December 18 (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on December, 2, 2015, are now available online (...)

Event in Turin, on 1 December, to take stock of the regional data of the PNE 2015 (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on November, 23, 2015, are now available online (...)

The Italian Cochrane Network and the Association Alessandro Liberati take a position on the debate raised by the bill on professional responsibility of health professionals, hoping for an adequate public investment on a program of independent guidelines and attended by medical personnel and the citizens (...)