December 2013

The vaccine against seasonal influenza is called trivalent, because it contains viruses representing three influenza strains: one A/H1N1, one A/H3N2, and one B. the single B-lineage antigen included is the one that is predicted to circulate in the related season. However, this means that some mismatch between the B antigen in the vaccine and the B antigen actually circulating may occur, this being a problem since cross-protection by immunization against the other lineage is expected to be low.

For a lot of students it is like in the film L'Auberge Espagnole. Recently, the benchmark of the 3 million^th Erasmus student was reached. This exchange programme, adopted in 1987, represents the first time living and studying abroad for many European students. Probably, it changed the life of most of them. From 2007 to 2013 it formed a major part of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. On

Italy is one of the best countries in Europe for cancer survival, as emerges from EUROCARE, a project started in 1989 under the initiative of two Italian research institutes, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori  (INT) in Milan and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome, with the participation of a large number of Cancer Registries throughout Europe. As we can read on EUROCARE website, “the aims of the study are: to