NewsYear: 2017

The new website of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Screening Group is available online, offering insights and updates dedicated to the numerous international projects underway on secondary prevention, with a focus on low and middle income countries (...)

Evaluate and improve the public health actions envisaged by the Prevention Plan through the adoption of standardized, accurate and ethically unsuitable procedures. This is the objective of audit by Local Health Care Companies whose guidelines have recently been established by the Piedmont Region (...)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer publication dedicated to biobanks in use in the field of oncology research whose recommendations are addressed not only to the most developed countries, but also to the low and middle income countries, is online (...)

Presented the latest edition of the Environment Report in Piedmont, an up-to-date regional photograph of the region based on the latest data provided by the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (...)

The 2017 edition of the Trento Economy Festival has been devoted to health inequalities. Numerous events streamed on the site of the festival: in this regard we would like to point out the possibility to retrieve online, in particular, the interventions of Michael Marmot and Paolo Vineis (...)

The call for abstract of the XLI Congress of the Italian Epidemiology Association will be open until July 24, scheduled to be held in Mantova from 25 to 27 October. In order to ensure that auditors have adequate timing of evaluation, the expiry date can not be extended (...)

Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organization show, highlighting improvements made on collecting data and statistics (...)

The LifeCycle project, which also involves the University of Turin and NINFEA cohort, marks the start of an ambitious initiative: to establish a European network of cohort studies of newborns, translating the results obtained from research in strategic prevention recommendations (...)

The weight of the economic crisis and the new scenarios introduced by globalization will waver many certainties, including the sustainability of welfare and, in particular, of the National Health Service. The latest Osservasalute report provides a careful and accurate analysis of the situation in Italy (...)

Asbestos is not a problem of the past. There are more than 1600 new cases of mesothelioma occurring every year in Italy, and it is estimated that asbestos cancers are at least as numerous. An open-to-public conference is pointing to an ongoing topic (...)

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 course, scheduled to take place in Turin on June 13 and 14, is intended to provide an overview of the Bayesian methodology applied to biomedical data (...)

A national and European initiative, aimed at studying mesothelioma, through investment in pre-clinical research to identify the causes of the disease and identify new drugs and new therapies, is starting (...)

The exhibition path set up in Turin, from May 10 to June 9, allows the visitor to know and deepen the different aspects of a natural as well as dangerous natural material (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

This year, the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology pre-course week will be dedicated to the environmental epidemiology, articulating its educational offer on two important topics: Exposome and GIS (...)

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 (...)