News

Appointment in Rome, from 1 to 4 September, for the annual meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, particularly important event for all those who occupy research of health effects of air pollution, water and soil (...)

The annual report 2015 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region has already been published. The report presents results of the 2014 activity and preliminary data of the 2015 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening (...)

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 (...)

MIDDIR report, the project aimed at identifying a methodology for the optimal implementation of health technology management, harmonizing nationwide conversion to HPV testing as a primary screening test for cervical cancer, is now available online (...)

Registration to the 29th residential summer course organized in Florence by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology is now open (...)

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

"Take decisions" is the title of the Annual meeting of the Association Alessandro Liberati - Italian Cochrane Network  to be held in Rome on May 31 (...)

More than ten years after its launch, the NINFEA project enters into an innovative step that will enable the participants and interested citizens to freely consult part of the data collected over time by filling in the questionnaires (...)

Every year the pollution causes the death of 12.6 million people around the world. The World Health Organization publishes a new report dedicated to disease prevention through healthier environments, performing an accurate overall assessment of the burden of disease from environmental hazards (...)

The free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States casts many shadows on topics relevant to public health. The journal Epidemiology & Prevention intervenes on the subject in order to raise public awareness as well as contributing to the debate within the scientific community (...)

The Regional Council has approved the new Asbestos Plan which envisages, among its main objectives, mapping and site remediation, waste management, staff training, the fight against mesothelioma (...)

The new national legislation on tobacco control is an important step towards greater protection of public health from damage is resulting from tobacco consumption is associated with exposure to secondhand smoke (...)

Meeting in L'Aquila on 14 and 15 April, the IEA Spring Conference whose theme will be: epidemiology, surveillance and research to coincide with catastrophic events (...)

The multicenter study "Active surveillance or radical treatment at diagnosis for prostate tumors at low risk (START)", sponsored by the Cancer Network of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in collaboration with the CPO Piemonte, has started patient enrollment (...)

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 new NINFEA project website is online. The redesign, structural, graphic and textual, has became necessary after more than ten years after the start of recruitment and coincides with the launch of the questionnaire of the 10 years of the child (...)

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 (...)