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
Horizon 2020 starts-off with a wave of prime calls and more to follow, over the course of the year. Calls in the 2014 budget alone are worth around €7.8 billion, with funding focused on the three key pillars of Horizon 2020:
On November 27th, Iran, the US and the major European Countries reached an historical agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, the so called Geneva Interim Agreement (officially “Joint Plan of Actions”), even though its effectiveness has yet to be proven. Dealing with nuclear issues, scientists have been and are still called to help: one of the leading “science for peace” conferences,
Not a formal meeting, stiffened by the Senate’s protocol, was hosted last December 10 in the Koch Room of Palazzo Madama (“Meeting on science, innovation and health” coordinated by Marco Cattaneo and Armando Massarenti). But an opportunity for trying stitching up the tear that has been dividing scientists and politicians for a long time. Strongly wanted by the newly appointed senator Elena Cattaneo and organized by the Hygiene and Healthcare Commission of the Senate (thanks to senator De Biasi), the intense morning flew away
