A new drug is available in Italy, pitolisant (Ozawade *), indicated to improve wakefulness and reduce excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea (Osa) in whom EDS has…
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AIDS, new data on the efficacy and safety of Gilead HIV therapy Glasgow 2022
New clinical results presented at the 30th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, Glasgow, highlight Bic / Ftc / Taf (bictegravir 50 mg / emtricitabine 200 mg / tenofoviralafenamide 25…
Merit study confirms the effectiveness of the less invasive anti-obesity procedure
(Adnkronos) – Apollo’s endoscopic vertical gastroplasty also approved by the Fda
Carpenedo (Sacco), for ITP management, a fundamental doctor-patient relationship
(Adnkronos) – “To improve the quality of life of people with primary immune thrombocytopenia, it is essential to monitor them by the specialist, and the ITP App is a valid help in…
Digital diary helps patients monitor immune thrombocytopenia
Always have data, documents and useful advice at hand to manage primary immune thrombocytopenia (Itp). Thanks to a new digital tool, patients suffering from a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by a reduced…
“50% patients with ITP have” Fatigue “, chronic fatigue difficult to recover”
(Adnkronos) – Lovrencic (Aipit Aps), The ITP profoundly affects the quality of life, the results of Novartis’ I-WISh research. It is important to know each other and have a good relationship with…
Coco (Novartis) “the ITP App is a 360 ° service that goes beyond drug treatment”
(Adnkronos) – “It serves as a container of useful information for the patient and a diary for collecting data on illness to be sent to the doctor also via e-mail. Novartis has…
Pisani (Ailar): “Communication between our main missions”
“Communication is one of Ailar’s main missions”, the Italian Laryngectomy Association. President Paolo Pisani underlines this, on the sidelines of the presentation of Merck’s ‘La Mia Voce’ App at the Genoa Science…
Licitra (UniMi): “App My voice allows you to overcome language difficulties”
People with head and neck cancer find themselves voiceless or with difficulty speaking. For Lisa Licitra, associate professor, Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology of the University of Milan, “it is very important…
Bocchetti (Merck): “My Voice App to communicate with caregivers and doctors”
The Merck ‘My Voice’ App, presented in its updated version at the Genoa Science Festival, offers patients “the opportunity to take advantage of a series of tools aimed at encouraging dialogue also…
Altroconsumo, + 59% pharmacy and parapharmacy sites but regulatory criticalities
In three years, from 2019 to today, the online sites of pharmacies and parapharmacies authorized for sale have registered an increase of 59%, but if “they represent an important saving opportunity”, there…
Consulcesi, ‘double test to enter Medicine does not reward merit’
While the San Raffaele University of Milan has recently announced the opening date for enrollment in the admission tests to Medicine, scheduled for October 25, inaugurating the formula of the ‘double test’…
Shortage of drugs in Italy, Federfarma alarm
According to Aifa data, about 3 thousand medicines are missing including paracetamol, antidepressants and antibiotics Federfarma raises the alarm on the shortage of drugs throughout the national territory. According to AIFA data,…
Head and neck cancer, from Merck an App to give voice to those who have none
An assisted communication tool designed for those who, suffering from head and neck cancer, find themselves voiceless or with difficulty speaking. It is the ‘My Voice’ App, launched in 2013 by Merck…
“Endocopic vertical gastroplasty arrives where bariatric surgery does not”
(Adnkronos) – Boškoski (Gemini), With the release of the US study Merit Fda recognizes the effectiveness of this minimally invasive procedure on first and second degree obesity on people awaiting transplant, over…
Studio Merit, extremely effective and safe endoscopic gastroplasty
(Adnkronos) – Perretta (Strasbourg University): bariatric surgery has a major impact on the quality of life of those who undergo it. These non-surgical procedures also give an excellent quality of life.
“Personalized multidisciplinary intervention on fundamental obesity”
Bulajic (Mater Olbia hospital): “We must first of all talk to the patient and intervene on diet and lifestyles, increasing physical activity and drug therapy. If the body mass index is between…
Surgery, study confirms less invasive bariatric procedure efficacy
After the recent authorization by the American drug agency Fda for the marketing of Apollo Esg * in the treatment of obesity, comes the publication of the Merit study (Multi-center Esg Randomized…
Bms, myelodysplasia therapy frees 48% of patients from transfusions for 8 weeks
Almost half (48%) of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes presenting with ring sideroblasts treated with a new therapy (luspatercept) are free from blood transfusions for at least 8 weeks. A very important result…
Covid Italy and bulletin, should it be eliminated? What they say Vaia, Galli, Gismondo
Abolish the daily covid bulletin: what do the experts think? In an interview with Libero, Francesco Vaia, director of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, said: “Enough with the Covid death bulletin”. The…
In Lombardy 700 thousand women with vulvodynia
In Lombardy 700 thousand women suffer from vulvodynia, 600 thousand have disorders related to urinary incontinence, 500 thousand are affected by sclero-atrophic lichen which affects 1.4 million, already in menopause. These are…
Sleep among the 7 signs of cardiovascular well-being
(Adnkronos) – Columbia University research
Dormitzer (Gsk): “Herpes Zoster vaccine model for other infections”
“Considering the aging of the population”, the recombinant vaccine against Herpes Zoster “is a model of application of scientific research not only for this disease, but also for other vaccines, because it…
Test-tube grown hair follicles, an anti-baldness hope
Hair follicles grown and grown ‘in test tubes’: an aid to pharmacological research and a hope for new anti-baldness treatments. This is the result announced by a group of Japanese scientists from…
Health, Sirm: good job to the new minister Schillaci
To the new Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci “go the heartfelt congratulations for the prestigious position and the warmest wishes for a good job from the president and the managing council of…