Between May and August the citizens of Piedmont are invited to participate in the public consultation on air quality launched by the Piedmont Region: the information collected will complement the "Regional Plan for Air Quality" currently being processed (...)
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Updated data of the "Integrated Evaluation of the Impact on Environment Atmospheric Pollution and Health", a project funded by the Center for Disease Control of the Ministry of Health and coordinated by the Department of Epidemiology of the Health Region of Lazio, were presented in Rome (...)
The annual report 2014 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region has already been published. The report presents results of the 2013 activity and preliminary data of the 2014 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening (...)
After the approval by the Regional Board, the new Plan 2015-2019 Asbestos now passes to the Regional Council (...)
Massimo Gion, scientific director of the Center for the Study of Regional Specialized Biochemical Indicators of cancer of the Veneto Region and a member of the Italian Network for Quality Assessment of Tumor biomarkers, will held a seminar on the appropriateness of biomarkers June 12 (...)
On June 8 in Turin, Silvia Franceschi, special advisor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, will give a talk on “Thyroid cancer: case or diagnosis epidemic?” (...)
The World Health Organization published the "World Health Statistics 2015" that represent the official source and annually updated information on the world population health (...)
"Cancer Incidence in Five Continents" - Volume X (CI5 X) is online and available on the dedicated website (...)
The evaluation of the policies of reorganization of regional health systems will be the central theme of the Spring Conference of the Italian Association of Epidemiology held in Florence on May 25 to 26 (...)
A workshop to present the results of the project "Integrated assessment of the health impact of air pollution in Italy" (VIIAS), promoted by the Ministry of Health, will be held in Rome, on June 4 (...)
The Italian Association Exposed Asbestos Onlus, section of Savigliano, celebrates the World Day for asbestos victims by organizing a two-day debate and analysis on these issues extremely topical (...)
Kathleen Ruff, Canadian activist in the field of human rights, science integrity and in the fight against asbestos trade, will be in Turin and Novara, on May, 12 and 14, to held a seminar "Conflicting interests and scientific communication" (...)
It should improve the transparency of clinical trials, whether studies of drugs, vaccines or medical devices. The call to the scientific community is the World Health Organization that in a recent press insists on the need to disseminate the results of research (...)
Friday, May 15, at the XXVIII edition of the International Book Fair in Turin, will present the volumes "The twentieth century. History of work in Italy": an opportunity to talk about workers' health as well as working (...)
Registrations to the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) Summer course, under the patronage of the International Epidemiological Association, are now open (...)
The educational material of the “Aggiornamento e formazione per colposcopisti del 2° livello screening per il cervicocarcinoma con l’avvio del nuovo programma regionale e l’utilizzo del test HPV come test primario”, addressed to personnel involved in the cervical cancer screening programme Prevenzione Serena, held in Turin on 30 March 2015, is available online (...)
Annual meeting of the Alessandro Liberati Association - Italian Cochrane Network, held in Turin on 22 May, will be dedicated to the hot topics of the economic sustainability of the National Health Service and the need to find effective ways and virtuous containment of waste and inefficiency (...)
The current debate in the World Health Organization on the possible discontinuation of dealings with the tobacco industry and manufacturers of weapons highlights how the same initiative could be taken against the asbestos industry (...)
The CPO Piemonte with the Italian Observatory on Screening, together with GISCoR, ISPO and the Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia, will present results from the PROTEUS study (Turin) and the SAVE study (Florence) during the workshop that will take place in Turin, March, 26-27 (...)
The journalist Alberto judicial Gaino meets Benedetto Terracini, epidemiologist, and Alessandra Fourth, jurist, to discuss the troubled relationship between science, courts and media (...)