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Youth Community-based Oral Health Learning Model
Start date: Feb 2, 2015, End date: Feb 1, 2017,
Poor oral health has a detrimental effect on youth’s quality of life, their performance at school and their success in later life. Youth who suffer from poor oral health are 12 times more likely to have restricted-activity days than those who do not.
European Ministers have asserted that the needs of EU citizens must be the centre of attention in the development of high quality health related inf ...
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Realizing the European Network in Biodosimetry (RENEB)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
Creating a sustainable network in biological dosimetry that involves a large number of experienced laboratories throughout the EU will significantly improve the accident and emergency response capabilities in case of a large-scale radiological emergency. A well organised cooperated action involving EU laboratories will offer the only chance for a fast and trustworthy dose assessment urgently neede ...
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Genetic prostate cancer variants as biomarkers of disease progression (PROMARK)
Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males in Europe, causing over 87,000 deaths in 2006. Early diagnosis and treatment are key factors in determining survival but screening methods based on the commonly-used PSA blood test have low specificity and result in excessive treatment of localized lesions that might never progress to symptomatic cancer. Biomarkers that help determine which of the ...
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Modelling the spread of pandemic influenza and strategies for its containment and mitigation (FLUMODCONT)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,
The public heath threat posed by novel strains of influenza A gaining transmissibility in people and causing a human pandemic has been recognised as potentially catastrophic, especially since the emergence and global spread of the highly pathogenic avian H5N1 virus. Several mathematical models have been developed to evaluate patterns of spatio-temporal spread of infection, and the effectiveness of ...
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