News

18 Dec 2014

Cancer screening programmes and their informational support: situation in the Czech Republic in 2014

A special issue of Klinicka onkologie (the official journal of the Czech Society for Oncology), published in December 2014, is dedicated to the assessment of cancer prevention efforts and results in the Czech Republic. A team of authors not only described the current situation in cancer prevention programmes in the Czech Republic, but also pointed out weak spots in cancer prevention efforts.

2 Dec 2014

New book on medical education and the MEFANET network

A new book from the Facta Medica publishing house, entitled „Computer Applications, Systems and Networks for Medical Education“, was released in November 2014. Dr. Daniel Schwarz and Assoc. Prof. Ladislav Dušek (both from IBA MU) are editors of the book.

19 Nov 2014

Video abstract of the COPD project

IBA MU cooperates with expert medical societies on many research projects and clinical registries. A research database of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of them; this project is guaranteed by the Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society of CzMA JEP (Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyne).

11 Aug 2014

MEFANET 2014

8th year of the traditional international conference of Czech and Slovak faculties of medicine, focused on e-learning and medical informatics in the education of medical disciplines, will take place in Brno on 26-27 November 2014.

1 Apr 2014

European Colorectal Cancer Days 2014

IBA MU and other partners take the liberty of inviting you to the 3rd European Colorectal Cancer Days conference.

22 Jan 2014

IBA MU and RECETOX made environmental database is now linked globally to GEOSS

The Tenth Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-X) and the 2014 GEO Ministerial Summit, organized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and hosted by Switzerland took place in the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland, from 15 to 17 January 2014.

19 Dec 2013

EUROCARE-5: Survival times of Czech cancer patients are now significantly longer than before

Cancer survival still varies widely between European countries despite major improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first decade of the 21st century, according to the latest EUROCARE-5 reports. The good news for citizens of the Czech Republic is that survival times of cancer patients in this country are significantly longer than survival times of cancer patients in other East European countries.

13 Dec 2013

Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future

The workshop “Cancer Screening Programmes in the Czech Republic and Importance of Personalised Invitation”, held on 5 December 2013 in the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, was organised by the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses at the Masaryk University in cooperation with the WHO Office in the Czech Republic, the Kolorektum.cz Initiative, and the Office of Member of the European Parliament Dr. Pavel Poc. The workshop was held under the auspices of Martin Holcát, MD, MBA (Czech Minister of Health), Alena Šteflová, PhD, MPH (Director of the WHO Office in the Czech Republic), and Dr. Pavel Poc (Member of the European Parliament).

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