Category: Health

‘Turtle’ cells antechamber of type 2 diabetes. This is what, in summary, researchers from the Polyclinic Gemelli Irccs Foundation – Catholic University have discovered who have closely followed the trajectory of type…

“In February-March, I would not have put the restriction at 60, but I would have put it lower”

Covid vaccine and doses administered in Italy, how to behave after inoculation? As the population of vaccinated people increases, the doubts and questions of those who – thanks to the shield injection…

“At the Milan Polyclinic we have begun to close Covid beds, we have reached more or less half of the semi-intensive respiratory beds. This means that there are fewer severe patients and…

Art at the service of fibromyalgia, a chronic disease that affects 2 million Italians, especially women, characterized by musculoskeletal pain, chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, neurocognitive alterations that have consequences on the patient’s…

The Covid variants? “Each virus mutates at random to try to escape the antibody response. And, by changing at random, sometimes the mutations it makes could give it an advantage, as has…

The Amplifon Research and Studies Center (Crs Amplifon) celebrates its 50th year of activity and talks about itself in a national conference, between objectives achieved and new challenges for the future. At…

Formulas such as the vaccine open days, during which to offer the anti-Covid ‘shield’ with different schemes than those followed so far in Italy, and with particular attention paid to adolescents. Imagine…

“Starting from Monday May 17, the Pfizer vaccine boosters will be extended to 5 weeks, or 35 days”. This was announced by the Covid crisis unit of the Lazio Region. “All interested…

GlaxoSmithKline plc (Gsk) announced today that the European Commission has approved the extended use of intravenous and subcutaneous Benlysta * (belimumab) in combination with basic immunosuppressive therapies for the treatment of adult…

Curfew at 24 in Italy, Massimo Galli preaches “attention”. “Let’s look at the numbers, for me the signal must be attention. If we really open everything, there will be no more attention…

Abolish curfew now? “I’d be more to do it, but enforce it. Bringing it to midnight perhaps for this May period, until we have a significant reduction” in the numbers of Covid-19,…

“It’s a political problem”, the director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan and professor at the Vita-Salute University told Adnkronos Salute

The curfew issue “has become a political debate and the scientific world, faced with political debates, takes a step back”. Having made the premise clear, however, “in my opinion it is not…

They are forced to undergo blood transfusions every 2-3 weeks throughout their life. And every day they have to take therapy to limit the accumulation of iron in vital organs such as…

The emergency use of Sinopharm’s Chinese vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality. “The addition of…

In Italy there are about 41 thousand new diagnoses of lung cancer every year. In recent years, however, immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of tumors, achieving surprising clinical results, even in lung…

It is an immune system disorder that causes inflammation of the nerves and can cause pain, numbness, muscle weakness and difficulty walking. (Gbs) reported after administration of the anti-Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. This…

“Case reports of myocarditis” after mRna anti-Covid vaccines under evaluation by the Prac, the Pharmacovigilance Committee of the European Medicines Agency Ema. This is what emerges from the report on the latest…

Covid vaccines for children, when and why? What data do we have regarding efficacy and safety in children? Is it really useful to vaccinate children and adolescents, since the disease is rarely…

The slight increase in the Rt index continues, rising to 0.89 while last week it was 0.85. This is what Adnkronos Health learns from the meeting of the Iss-Ministry of Health control…

The pandemic does not stop the scientific research against cancer promoted by the Nibit Foundation, which in the last 12 months has developed 6 clinical studies, all coordinated by the Immuno-Oncology Center…

Herpes zoster, the so-called ‘shingles’, affects about 150 thousand Italians a year. And in some cases it gives rise to a disabling complication, post-herpetic neuralgia, which reduces the quality of life of…

“Family medicine has tried to optimize the identification times of patients to be vaccinated first against Covid, within the age range indicated by the vaccination plan. We have thus created an algorithm…

“Out of the total number of patients hospitalized during the first wave” of Covid, “one in 6 died during hospitalization”. This was reported by Simi (Italian Society of Internal Medicine), communicating the…