"Environmental health" and "multidimensional development process" are two concepts that have been used and discussed since the last two decades within different conceptual frameworks. The present paper presents and discusses an interpretation concerning the interconnection between these two concepts in line with the integrated approach to health of environmental epidemiology and the multidimens...

Background: The Pilot Study represents the continuation of a collaborative scientific activity started with the international workshop: “Risk assessment of Chernobyl accident consequences”, held in Kiev, Ukraine on April 8-12, 2003, and with 37 participants from Ukraine, Belarus, Russian Federation and Lithuania and 14 participants from western Europe and USA attended to the workshop (Austria, ...

INTRODUCTION The European Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO/Europe) developed a strategic approach to stop the indigenous transmission of measles in its 53 Member States by 2015. This study describes the measles laboratory surveillance activity performed by the National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella at the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superio...

In the mid-eighties, the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) made a significant contribution to the foundation of the WHO Center for Research and Training in Mental Health in Italy, with the Institute director Francesco Pocchiari as first president. In the nineties, an extensive and successful project of research in mental health (Progetto Nazionale Salute Mentale, PNSM) was directed by ISS afte...

Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri,” Milan, Italy; Amyloid Research and Treatment Center, Foundation Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine University of Milan, L...

Alessandro Cresti , Giuseppe Grosso (2) and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini (3) (1) NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy [email protected] (2) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy (3) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica ...

An Unusual Metastatic Site for Primary Lung Cancer: The Spleen Andrea Belli, MD,* Giuseppe De Luca, MD, Francesco Bianco, MD, Silvia De Franciscis, MD, Fabiana Tatangelo, MD, Giovanni Maria Romano, MD, Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCSEd Department of Abdominal Oncology, Division of Surgical Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale–Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Nap...

F Rovida 1 , A Piralla 1 , FC Marzani 2 , A Moreno 3 , G Campanini 1 , F Mojoli 2 4 , M Pozzi 2 , A Girello 1 , C Chiapponi 5 , F Vezzoli 6 , P Prati 7 , E Percivalle 1 , A Pavan 8 , M Gramegna 9 , GA Iotti 2 4 , F Baldanti 1 10 1. SS Virologia Molecolare, SC Microbiologia e Virologia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy 2. Anestesia e Rianimazione, Dipartimento di Emergenza e...

INTRODUCTION The Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) sets further obligations for manufacturers, importers, distributors, downstream users of substances either on their own or in mixtures. According to the European mandate, each Member State has constituted its National Helpdesk to provide advice to the interested parties on ...

Massimo Ciccozzi1,2, Eleonora Cella1, Marta Giovanetti1, Alessandra Lo Presti1, Anna Rita Ciccaglione3, Isabella Bon4, Paolo Gallo5, Maria Musumeci6, Mario Bonetti7, Antonio Picardi5, Elisabetta Riva8, Giovanni Mottini9 1Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy; 2University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy; 3Viral Hepatitis Unit,...