Half a century ago came the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the intergovernmental agency of the World Health Organization, which, among other tasks, establishes guidelines on the classification of the relative risk for cancers of chemical and physical agents.The book published to mark the 50th IARC anniversary is now available online (...)
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NewsYear: 2015
Advent of genomics, use of big data, privacy protection. This and much more will be debated in Turin, September 16 to 19, on the occasion of the eighth National Congress of the Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (...)
The eleventh Annual Report of the National Screening Observatory, produced in collaboration with scientific societies GISMa, GISCoR and GISCI, has been published online (...)
The Authority for the protection of the personal data launches new guidelines on electronic patient dossier, for the protection of patient data within a single frame of reference and homogeneous (...)
Appointment in Turin on September 3, in the context of the Agora - Expo Milan, to talk about cohorts of newborns and the results of scientific research in the field of life-course epidemiology (...)
The course satellite of the Master's Degree in Epidemiology at the University of Turin is dedicated to the comparative evaluation of effectiveness aimed at evaluating the results of interventions, population groups and hospitals. Registration is open until July 31 (...)
A course dedicated to the assessment of the causal nature of reported associations between exposure to risk factors defined and the appearance of the disease, especially in the field of environmental health, to be held in Rome July 13 to 17. Registration is open until July 10 (...)
June 16, 1995, the Regional Council deliberated the establishment of the Reference Centre for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention in Piedmont. Benedetto Terracini traces with us the fertile period that led to the birth of the CPO (...)
On the site of IRES Piemonte you can see the annual report on the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Piedmont (...)
The Regional Council has just approved the new Regional Plan for Prevention for the years 2015-2018. The next operating step, declined in the area, will be the Local plans of prevention that Local Health Authorities are called to adopt by mid-July (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)