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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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)