Category: Health

Experts call for vaccine priority: “The virus can alter the course of pregnancy and harm mothers and newborns, according to the study by ‘Jama Pediatrics’”

“Ours is a country of ‘old’, fragile people, today there are almost 14 million and, within a generation, there will be 20 million. We have over 700 thousand over ninety, 14 thousand…

“For blood cancers, treatments are increasingly effective and produce better and longer lasting responses. The long-term results of the ‘Murano’ study confirm, in patients with relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL),…

“The diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia changes your life, it is a real tsunami. The psychological impact for those who receive it, due to their family and social context, is very important:…

Is it important to vaccinate young people against covid? It’s possible? And from what age? Experts more or less all agree that children should also be immunized. Read also PALMA “If vaccinating…

Managing the Covid-19 patient at home is central in this pandemic, which is putting a strain on hospitals. But in order to fully exploit the potential of territorial medicine it is necessary…

Every year in Italy about 1,200 people are diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common form of leukemia in Western countries. However, this blood cancer is less scary, thanks to…

The arrival of summer is a period that many look forward to with joy, but which can often cause disturbances to our body. It is a period of change: the hours of…

Green light for the second dose of AstraZeneca’s anti Covid vaccine for those who received the first without reporting rare thrombosis. This is the indication of the Scientific Technical Committee for the…

Two clinical phase 3 studies published in the ‘Nejm’ demonstrate the safety and efficacy profile of the monoclonal antibody bimekizumab, an investigational inhibitor of interleukins IL-17A and IL-17F for the treatment of…

Over the past 12 months, Italians have neglected the prevention of melanoma, the most aggressive of skin cancers, postponing or canceling many checkups and tests. There are 7 out of 10 Italians…

The Chinese vaccine against Covid by Sinovac “is a further possibility” in the fight against the virus “but the efficacy data does not seem extraordinary to me. We will see what the…

An alteration in the quality of taste and smell, which leads to a different perception of smells and flavors that were usual only a few months earlier. It is a ‘legacy’ that…

AstraZeneca vaccine in Italy, in the aftermath of the reassurances on the second dose of the CTS – and of the announcement on the ongoing revaluation for administration also to under 60s…

The number of doctors who died in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic has risen to 359. Ziad Zawaideh, general practitioner, retired but still working as a cardiologist, is the latest victim in…

“Covid vaccination in schools? It will be a success”. Word of Italo Farnetani. “This is a system for obtaining maximum compliance of families” and allows “vaccinating a large number of subjects in…

What role for artificial intelligence (Ai) in precision medicine? What are the possible fields of clinical application in this moment in which medicine is also at the center of a ‘digital revolution’?…

The simple, but essential, gesture of washing your hands thoroughly is necessary for the prevention of infections, in hospitals and beyond. And it also helps reduce the spread of communicable diseases like…

Three dads in Fedez, help us say no to violence against the weak © ANSA Being violent and bold with weaker people is cowardly, it doesn’t make you cool anymore. And if…

In yellow the damage caused by the new coronavirus in the lungs. 3D model obtained from a CT scan (source George Washington Hospital and Surgical Theater) © ANSA / Ansa The pulmonary…