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The new Report on Secondary Prevention in Italy is available on the National Screening Observatory website, updated in 2016. The document is presented in a completely renewed form that allows faster updates and easier consultations (...)

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 (...)

The "European Guide on Quality Improvement for Comprehensive Cancer Control", just published by CanCon, joint European action on cancer, aims to provide recommendations on how to increase tumor control actions in the Old Continent (...)

The new report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, realized in collaboration with the CPO Piemonte, dedicated to screening programs in the European Union for the prevention of breast, cervical and colorectal cancer, has just been published (...)

The IARC Monographs volume on Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides is now available online. The volume includes monographs on diazinon, glyphosate, malathion, parathion and tetrachlorvinphos (...)

Now in its sixth annual edition, the report published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Cancer Registries provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of Health (...)

At the library of the CPO Piemonte - Via Cavour 31, in Turin, the complete and bound collection of Epidemiology & Prevention for the period ranging from 1976 to 2015 is now available (...)

92% of the world population lives in areas where air quality levels exceed the threshold values established WHO. The new data are a further, detailed source of information on environmental pollution and the resultant danger to public health (...)

The document "Immigrants and document screening in Italy", which aims to investigate the causes of variability intra and inter-regional participation in the screening programs and to develop organizational and communication patterns to improve equity in access to particular services subgroups of population, is available online (...)

The new European regulation on privacy aimed at harmonizing regulations and procedures, especially in terms of managing sensitive data, enters into force (...)

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 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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The recent report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer evaluated the carcinogenicity of red meat and processed meat, leading to stress, once again, the recommendation to reduce the consumption (...)

An invitation to read: The epigenetic link between inflammation and socioeconomic status, di Michele Bellone.

WHO figures speak for themselves: worldwide premature deaths caused by air pollution amounted to 7,000,000. A new study appearing in Nature assesses the health effects of particulate matter, diversifying globally the sources of PM_2.5 (...)