NewsYear: 2015

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 (...)

Double event dedicated to the topic of asbestos, considered from many points of view: scientific, legal, epidemiological. Held in Novara Barry Castleman seminar, in Turin the conference in honor of Bice Fubini (...)

The usual annual workshops addressed to operators of regional screening program Prevenzione Serena will be held in Turin at the beginning of November. Programs are online (...)

The latest updates processed by the CPO Piemonte related to cancer care in Piemonte are available in the open data section (...)

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 (...)

The recent approval of the legislative decree implementing the European directive concerning the processing and presentation of tobacco products and related, among the many new, introduces a series of rules aimed at greater protection of minors (...)

The V annual edition of the report "The numbers of cancer in Italy", published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Association of Cancer Registries, provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of the National Health System (…)

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

The XXXIX Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Milan October 28 to 30. Main theme this year will be the combination of diet and health (...)

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 (...)