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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 (...)

On March 28, the conference "The importance of birth cohort studies: epidemiology, public health and citizens' engagement", organized by the Behavioral Science Reference Center and the Mental Health Institute of Health and the Department Epidemiology of the Regional Health Service - ASL ROMA 1, will be held in Rome (...)

The Piedmont Region has renewed until 31 December this year, the convention on the projects, inserted under the program "Prevenzione Serena" and conducted by the CPO Piemonte, "Proteus woman" and "screening Experimentation DBT" (...)

It is still possible to apply to the XXX edition of the summer courses organized by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology that take place as usual in Florence and are turning to university students from all over the world (...)

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 (...)

World Cancer Day is an initiative promoted worldwide by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise public awareness on primary and secondary prevention in the fight against cancer, with particular regard, this year, to the importance of physical activity (...)

New data on incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence of Piedmont Cancer Registry relating to both the City of Turin and the Metropolitan Area are available online (...)

The Andromeda study has started in Piedmont: through the personal stories of the women it will be possible to better define the risk levels and plan routes prevention for breast cancer better suited to the profile of participants in the screening Prevenzione Serena (...)

Air pollution kills 6.5 million people every year. A new World Health Organization's campaign aims to raise awareness even more about the importance of protecting the quality of air in our cities (...)

The Oncology Network of Piemonteand Valle d'Aosta and CPO Piemonte launched in 2015 the first research project and intervention in Italy  of active surveillance at the population level through the study START. A public meeting to be held in Turin on February 2, intends to present the project and preliminary results (...)

The educational material of the three annual workshops dedicated to the regional screening program Prevenzione Serena are available into  the Open data section (...)

The annual workshop on the results of Prevenzione Serena program for colorectal cancer has highlighted the particularly innovative protocol adopted by the Piedmont Region, which allows you to choose between two different ways of running the screening (...)