On 16 and 17 February was held at CREAL, an ISGlobal allied centre, the eighth and last MOBI-KIDS Consortium Meeting. The meeting was attended by investigators from 15 different countries.
Among other topics we talked about the state of the data and descriptive results, validation studies, exposure assessment and preliminary results.
Feature of the Month – Italy The study is conducted in four Italian regions (Piemonte, Lombardia, Emilia Romagna and Toscana), comprising more than 22 million inhabitants, about 37% of the Italian population, and approximately 3 million of 10 to 24 years old children and adolescents. Fieldwork started in 2011 and has already involved 112 cases…
Key MOBI-Kids investigators receive recognition from NIOSH Two articles co-written by several key MOBI-Kids investigators from the INTERPHONE study have been awarded an Honorable Mention in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) 2012 Alice Hamilton Awards for Excellence in Occupational Safety and Health under Exposure and Risk Assessment Category. The Alice Hamilton Awards…
Child Health Research, the Key to a Healthier European Society On the 30th and 31st May 2013, two CREAL Radiation Programme researchers attended the 2013 Child Health Research Conference which was hosted at Dublin City University, in Dublin, Ireland. The objectives of the conference were to launch the final reports from the RICHE project and the CHICOS…
Feature of the Month – The Mobi-Kids Exposure Assessment Team The Mobi-Kids Exposure Assessment team is developing a tool-kit that will provide detailed estimates of exposure to both radio-frequencies and low frequency fields from mobile and cordless phones. Unlike any previous case-control epidemiological study, thesedose estimates will not only take into account the non-homogeneity of…
Mobi-Kids project: Extensive international data collection on potential risk factors for brain tumours in young people Brain tumours are the second most common malignancy during childhood. Although childhood brain tumours are, fortunately, still a rare disease, the incidence has been slightly increasing over the past few years. However, very little is known about the risk…
MOBI-Kids 5th Consortium Meeting The MOBI-Kids Consortium held its 5th annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain on 7th and 8th May. Among the topics discussed were the progress and status of fieldwork and exposure assessment work.