Health

The 38th Ectrims congress, the most important scientific event dedicated to research on multiple sclerosis, is back in place after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, kicks off in Amsterdam. Over 8 thousand participants from 108 countries, in hybrid mode, including neurologists, researchers, associations. The challenge is to give each person with multiple sclerosis the … Read more

The treatment of multiple sclerosis is being revolutionized by the new drugs that no longer have to be taken in the hospital, with long infusions replaced by tablets, and which must be taken only for a few weeks, with an efficacy that lasts for years. This is the case of a relatively new molecule, Cladribine … Read more

New positive data on the experimental drug evobrutinib against multiple sclerosis, highlight long-term benefits in patients with the relapsing form, treated for more than three and a half years. The results of the Phase 2 clinical study showing how the annualized relapse rates have remained low and the level of disability stable were presented at … Read more

Offer protection to elderly patients and patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, against pneumococcus and Herpes Zoster, two highly impacting diseases for this type of patient. This is the goal of the vaccination campaign successfully launched by the ASL city of Turin, which arises from what was positive during the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. … Read more

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (Sacru) have signed a bilateral collaboration agreement aimed at combating food and health inequalities on the planet. The signing of the ‘letter of intent’ took place on the occasion of the ‘Enhancing resilience of food systems to … Read more

“When I started working on multiple sclerosis, there was no therapy and the disease was a sentence. Some before, some later, many patients ended up in wheelchairs, with an obvious disability. Now that’s no longer the case. Fortunately, for the most part. of cases, we are able to keep it under control, like many other … Read more

“Italy is becoming an increasingly strategic reality for the Merck pharmaceutical group. We have all understood, from the war in Ukraine and considering China’s position, that it is necessary to strengthen in Europe: for this reason our commitment in Europe and in Italy it is becoming even stronger than in the past “. This was … Read more

An Italian at the helm of the European network for best practices and research in the rehabilitation of multiple sclerosis, Rims (Rehabilitation In Multiple Sclerosis). During the Rims Annual Conference, which takes place in Amsterdam from 26 to 28 October, in conjunction with the Ectrims Annual Congress, the European Committee for Treatments and Scientific Research … Read more

Not just drugs. More and more technology contributes to improving the quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis, simplifying their daily life, but also to bring together the experts who deal with this pathology and to virtually bring doctors and patients closer together. This is the case of two Apps developed by the pharmaceutical … Read more

He made a stop in Rivoli, province of Turin, “Innamorati di Te”, an itinerant project by Codere Italia on the theme of gender-based violence. Femicide, and more generally gender-based violence, has long been a predominant element in the pages of crime news. These phenomena are accompanied by a whole series of so-called spy crimes, such … Read more

“We neonatologists are privileged witnesses” of the demographic winter that has been holding Italy in its grip for years. “Let’s touch what is happening firsthand. Unfortunately, in 2021, for the first time in history the number of births went below 400 thousand in our country, with a loss of almost 30% in the last 30 … Read more

The initiative, successfully launched by the ASL of the city of Turin, stems from what was positive during the vaccination campaign against Covid 19 and is aimed at patients over 65 and diabetic patients. Picco (Asl Torino), ‘As was the case with Covid, concentrating vaccination resources in hubs where there are all the intervention chains … Read more

It is the third most diagnosed neoplasm in Italy, the second in the male population, with about 28 thousand diagnoses a year (Aiom estimate), yet – according to an EMG survey for AstraZeneca – 67% of Italians say they know little or nothing about cancer at the lung. But about 9 out of 10 Italians … Read more

“The weekly bulletin is correct but I hope it is different, whether it is said who has the symptoms and signs of pneumonia or who has only a positive but asymptomatic swab, where those who died from Covid and with Covid differ”. So to Adnkronos Health Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of … Read more

There are 2,900 new coronavirus infections today, 28 October 2022 in Lazio, according to Covid-19 data in the latest bulletin of the Region. Since yesterday, 6 deaths have been recorded. In the last 24 hours, 2,778 molecular swabs and 15,301 antigenic swabs were processed for a total of 18,079 swabs with a positive rate of … Read more

Chronicity, multifactoriality and the ‘visibility of the disease’ on the skin: among the main factors that make psoriasis a pathology with a heavy psychological impact, still too often neglected. To bring attention to this inflammatory skin disease, “non-contagious, autoimmune, genetic and relapse”, are the experts of Consulcesi who on the occasion of the World Psoriasis … Read more

Nutrition plays an increasingly important role for the health and well-being of patients and is closely related, not only to the prevention of various diseases of the digestive system, but also to the treatment of metabolic, chronic inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. For this reason, the Italian Society of Gastroenterology (Sige) is organizing a national course … Read more

With the high cost of living and the rising cost of electricity, winter appears to be more difficult to cope with, especially for the families of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. For this reason, the good Christmas of Aisla (Italian Association SLA), in placing the value of the family at the center, this year launches … Read more

It is called Issyk-Kul (Iskv) and is a virus of which little is known, although it is described as the cause of possible outbreaks of disease in humans characterized by fever, headache, myalgia and nausea, with recovery times also a few weeks. He was isolated by a bat in Lombardy, in the province of Bergamo, … Read more

“After more than 2 and a half years of pandemic, we cannot yet proclaim the final victory over Covid-19. We still have to make use of responsibility and precaution. Public health has the task of maintaining high safety especially for the most fragile, the elderly. , of those who suffer from previous pathologies “. This … Read more

“We were expecting this news. Now we know with certainty that when we vaccinate people at risk, for diseases or the elderly, against Herpes Zoster, we protect them for at least 10 years.” This is how Michele Conversano, director of the Prevention Department of the Asl of Taranto and president of the technical scientific committee … Read more

Enough of having to wear a mask in homes for the elderly. And enough prohibitions that prevent family members from meeting their loved ones in the room, face to face with no one around, as if they were “plagued” to be relegated outside or in common areas. Dario Francolino, president of the Orsan-Open Rsa Now … Read more

Bad cholesterol (LDL) is one of the main cardiovascular risk factors, hence the need to control its values ​​over the course of life. It also applies to those who have faced a heart attack: they are a chronic patient, like a diabetic or cancer patient. Therefore, once the acute event has been overcome, it is … Read more

The loss of smell, in scientific terms anosmia, was one of the most evident and common symptoms of Covid-19, especially in the first epidemic waves. Although it is now much less common with Omicron, some patients have not yet fully or partially recovered their sense of smell. But Covid patients are not the only ones … Read more

A ‘crazy heart’ which at rest exceeds 100 beats per minute and which accelerates even more, suddenly, at the slightest physical effort. It is Tsi, a form of tachycardia called ‘inappropriate sinus’, incessant and uncontrollable, which mainly affects women aged 20 to 50 years. To correct it, the Irccs San Raffaele Hospital in Milan announces … Read more