REPLICA announces its third Harmonization Meeting
The REPLICA Project is proud to announce the third Harmonization meeting involving researchers and international partners. The two-day session is going to be held on May 26 and May 28 2021
Thursday 22th of April, CoEHAR organizes the kick-off online meeting of the Smile Study
The Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR) is pleased to present the "Smile Study", a new research project committed to reducing the damage caused by smoking…
SRNT 2021- Giovanni Li Volti: “A potential role of nicotine as a protective factor from Covid-19”
Catania February, 2021 – The Director of CoEHAR Giovanni Li Volti presented at the meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT 2021) the study “The Role of cigarette…
Lockdown and social distancing are inadequate: to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic we need to return to primary and secondary prevention
A recent international partnership between researchers from Europe, USA, UK and Russia has investigated the effects of the pandemic mitigation strategies. Community and home care are the only viable strategies that could achieve the goal of pandemic mitigation
Incriminating ecig no matter what is becoming a new national sport
An article published in the Lancet triggers the reaction of the scientific community that supports the tobacco harm reaction policies.
Replica Project: the Trip through all the Partners
The Coehar Director, Giovanni Li Volti and the Co-project Leader for Replica, Dr. Massimo Caruso have organized a tour to all the international partners of the project to harmonize the protocols of the study for the first year of the Replica Project
Smoking and COVID-19: hospitalized smokers are far fewer than expected but have more severe disease
A new study published in the journal "Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease" provides important insight to the issue of smoking and COVID-19. The number of smokers with severe COVID-19 that requires hospitalization is by far lower than expected based on population smoking rates. The very few smokers who are eventually hospitalized have higher odds for severe disease and adverse outcome.
CoEHAR Unict: A call is open for 4 Research Fellowships
Catania, 8 June 2020 - The selection procedure for the award of 4 Research Fellowships is open to young graduates in various discipline: the deadline is June 26, 2020. The selection is part of the activities and research projects promoted by the COEHAR, the Center of Excellence for the Accelleration of Harm Reduction of the University of Catania, founded by Prof. Riccardo Polosa.
CoEHAR, heart that beats in the world
These last days we have been receiving hundreds of messages of solidarity from our partners around the world. Hundreds of our doctors and researchers are on the front lines fighting…
Replica Tour: a special report on national television of Serbia
The interview of the national TV of Serbia went on air on February 20, which recounted some phases of the tour that in these days sees the director of CoEHAR,…
