After Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia is the second leading cause of cognitive impairment before age 65. An Italian study shows a new technique for 'reading' the genetic forms of the disease. Published in 'Alzheimer Research and Therapy', the work conducted by the Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, Centro Dino Ferrari of the Irccs Policlinico State University of Milan, directed by Elio Scarpini, […]
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The President of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, the President of the National Institute of Social Security (INPS), Tito Boeri, and the President of the Hospitaller Physiotherapy Institutes (IFO), Francesco Ripa di Meana, today presented an experimental protocol of understanding for the protection of disability from oncological pathologies. The agreement will allow the timely activation of the invalidity practice at INPS made [...]
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The non-profit association "Semper più in alto", which is dedicated to supporting parents of children suffering from neuro-development disorders, has obtained the certification of "Center for the family" from the Central Welfare and Educational Services Department of the Municipality of Naples . In this way, the social utility of his help, educational counseling and [...]
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Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of the Red Cross, after meeting in Iran with the Iranian Red Cross Authorities and the Russian Crescent Organization, left for Iraq where he will hold the conference of the National Red Cross Societies and Red Crescent of the Middle East and North Africa. The two missions will provide the opportunity [...]
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It was thought that the 'cradle' of schizophrenia was in the most evolved part of the brain, i.e. the frontal cortex that controls more complex activities such as language and the ability to plan actions, while the motor that triggers hallucinations is instead found in very different areas and far from this. The result, obtained in [...]
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“Biosimilar medicines are an important therapeutic resource and an opportunity to help ensure more and more the response to the emerging health need. In synergy with biological drugs, they can provide answers to the problem of undertreatment for numerous pathologies, guaranteeing access to therapies to an increasing number of patients "declared the General Manager [...]
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In the early afternoon of today 17 March, a one-year-old child in imminent danger of life was urgently transported from Cagliari to Genoa aboard a Falcon 50 plane of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force. The little patient, accompanied by a specialized medical team, was then transferred by ambulance to be admitted to the Institute [...]
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Eight out of ten Italian men do not go to the urologist even once in their life, risking to discover tumors such as testicular cancer or penile cancer too late which, if diagnosed and treated at an early stage, are treated well and can heal. To raise the alarm in view of Father's Day on March 19 [...]
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The president of the PNA, the National Association of Deans, Antonello Giannelli, after the Miur-Salute circular which set yesterday, March 10, the deadline for the presentation of documents, reported in a press release that tomorrow there could be problems at nursery and elementary schools to allow children without documentation proving the history [...]
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A 26-year-old pregnant woman was transported by a Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force. The aircraft that took off from Alghero in the late morning landed a few minutes ago at the Genoa airport. The woman, who needs to be transferred as soon as possible to the Gaslini hospital in Genoa for treatment [...]
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Matteo Renzi takes sides against antivaccinists, and he does so by sharing a post by Roberto Burioni, a doctor now famous on the net for his crusade against "keyboard doctors", on his Facebook page. The message of the Pd secretary is very clear and only underlines the position of the Democratic Party on the issue [...]
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Emmanuel Besnier, CEO of "Lactalis", in an interview with the Journal du Imanche, breaking the silence promised to compensate "all the families who have suffered damage" for salmonella infection after consuming products from the French milk giant . Besnier, explained that he puts all the consequences of [...]
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After the departure of Merck Serono, also the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc has decided to forgo investments in the research of new drugs for the treatment of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The investments made were not sufficient to obtain noteworthy results against the disease. This is why the pharmaceutical company [...]
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Paracetamol, a drug widely used in the flu season, may not be indicated during pregnancy. According to the research, which analyzes some studies conducted only on animals, taking paracetamol during pregnancy could compromise the future fertility of female offspring. The work is published in 'Endocrine Connections'. The article examines three distinct rodent studies that [...]
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The artificial muscles made by the University of Colorado in Boulder have extreme elasticity, speed and strength, able to replicate the performance of real muscles and self-repair, thanks to the introduction of a liquid inside the soft pad that allows the movement of the joint. The study of these electrically activated low cost devices is published in Science. The [...]
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The councilor for the right to health, Stefania Saccardi and the director of the Careggi staff, Andrea Belardinelli, will present tomorrow, during the scheduled press conference, the new function of the "Careggi Smart Hospital" application that will allow you to check the various stages of surgery. This is a new function for the App which, [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published today on the institutional portal the Report on the Postmarketing Surveillance of Vaccines in Italy 2016, which describes the overall results of the analyzes conducted by type of vaccine on the reports entered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network during 2016. "Also from the 2016 Report - says the General Manager, Mario Melazzini [...]
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At the CNR they developed a method to measure the concentration of chlorine in nerve cells, a chemical element that regulates the inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms of the brain, from whose balance derive cognitive deficits and important pathologies such as autism and epilepsy. A result has been achieved that neurobiology has been pursuing for some time: a non-invasive method for [...]
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2030 is the dead line in Italy: one in two patients will be over 65. These numbers are not surprising if you consider that one in three of those affected by this cancer is already over 65. A trend that mixes with the aging of the Italian population, which already today about [...]
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In the late morning of today, Wednesday 13 December, an AB 212 helicopter of the 80 ° Centro Combat SAR (Search And Rescue) of Decimomannu, employed by the 15 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force, intervened to rescue an affected Korean passenger from ischemia aboard a cruise ship that was about 160 km to [...]
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A small molecule with great analgesic and anticancer potential is the result of the multidisciplinary work of three departments of the University of Florence, recently published in the “Journal of Medicinal Chemistry”. The research was coordinated by Cristina Nativi (Department of Chemistry) in synergy with Claudiu Supuran (Neurofarba) and Marco Fragai (CERM, Department of Chemistry) and involved [...]
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Take stock of the state of the art of the Eradication Plan and stimulate a debate on critical issues and best practices, also answering the questions of the subjects involved: patients, doctors, local institutions. These are the objectives of the Event "AIFA and EpaC, a new alliance for the eradication of the HCV virus", promoted by EpaC Onlus and organized by MA Provider, with [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) The Food and Drug Administration, the US government body that deals with the regulation of food and pharmaceutical products, recently approved the use of the first digital pill that records whether or not patients have taken their medicines. The pill, called Abilify MyCite, is equipped with a small ingestible sensor that communicates [...]
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A medical transport carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino of the Air Force in favor of a newborn in Imminent Danger of Life (IPV) has just been concluded. The little patient was transported on the Cagliari - Rome route in a special thermal cradle and looked after by a medical team. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A black year for Italy in all senses: no football world cup and no Ema, the European drug agency. In one thing, however, we can be satisfied: we managed to make the National Anthem official after only 71 years. France, on the other hand, had the EBA, the European banking agency. Today, therefore, in Brussels there was [...]
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Pancreatic cancer, given the continuously growing incidence trend, is destined to become the second cause of death in the West over the years. It affects about 13 thousand people every year in Italy, in the last 15 years it has recorded almost a 60% increase in cases. Unfortunately pancreatic cancer is one of the [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration intends to accelerate the introduction of treatments involving human cells and tissues, including gene therapy. But the US drug regulating agency is also committed to thwarting clinics that offer dangerous, unproven versions of those treatments. This is what can be seen from the new FDA guidelines, [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) A team of researchers from the University of Southern California - USC and the Wake Forest School of Medicine analyzed a series of studies showing that, in animals, the insertion of electrodes into the brain had improved the way in which the memories were imprinted in the memory, and therefore [...]
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A medical transport from Alghero to Genoa has recently been completed in favor of a three-month-old girl in imminent danger of life. The young patient was transported to the Ligurian capital by a Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo of the Air Force to be admitted to the Gaslini Hospital. The request for support was received from [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Nowadays antibiotics are used like aspirins, we are used to taking them at every sign of illness to be immediately active and in shape. The immune system needs to strengthen itself by fighting bacteria and viruses. After days of illness and after the organism has fought alone and is not [...]
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In Tuscany, innovative technologies for the continuous monitoring of blood sugar. On the occasion of the 2017 World Diabetes Day, the Region announces that it will make them available to patients who will be eligible, among the more than 172.000 people with diabetes present in Tuscany. Glycemic self-control - experts say - is essential for the management of diabetes [...]
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According to what was announced by the international newspaper business Insider, Bill Gates: the co-founder of Microsoft, now honorary president of the Redmond giant, is ready to donate a considerable amount to research for degenerative mental diseases. Gates will donate, from his own pocket, $ 50 million (almost 43 million euros) to the Dementia Discovery Fund, which [...]
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Attempts to seek the ultimate cure and eradicate cancer are manifold. Scholars think of combined therapies, diet and traditional drugs. Now in the UK at the University of Glasgow a new science is being experimented. Eliminating certain specific amino acids from the diet can prove beneficial in the fight against cancer. A joint team of [...]
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Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in Italy and in the world, yet little known and therefore often diagnosed late and poorly treated. In Italy there are three million individuals affected by this disease and over 400 million in the world but the estimates foresee a worrying increase that will bring the number of [...]
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The CHMP (Committee Evaluating Drugs for Human Use) of the European Medicines Agency has expressed a positive opinion on "ocrelizumab" as a therapy for people with active form of relapsing multiple sclerosis (RRMS) defined by clinical or radiological signs, and from primary progressive multiple sclerosis in the early phase, in terms of disease duration and [...]
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Lemon is not only good, refreshing, thirst-quenching and excellent as a condiment in all our dishes, but countless positive reactions occur in our body when we take it. Umberto Veronesi himself, Scientific Director of the European Institute of Oncology, states: "Lemon is rich in limonoids which have a direct ability to curb certain types of [...]
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“Minimally invasive surgery is difficult. What's new? ”This will be the focus of the 9th Annual Congress of the Roman Academy of Surgery which will take place on 10 and XNUMX November in the auditorium of the Ministry of Health. Professor Massimo Carlini, director of the General Surgery department of the Sant'Eugenio hospital in Rome, interviewed by the Dire agency, in view of this important event [...]
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The primary cause of cancer is food - never eat acidifying foods. In 1931 the German scientist Otto Heinrich Warburg received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the primary cause of cancer. That's right. He found the primary cause of cancer and won the Nobel Prize. Otto found that cancer [...]
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The Italian malaria specialists informed the Italian ministers of Health and of the University and Research on the occasion of the Conference on Health organized by the Italian Presidency of the G7. Italian scholars are sounding the alarm on the global impact of malaria because Italy activates public funding to support Italian research against this devastating disease. Ten years […]
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Good news on the front of the new contract for public sector employees. A one-off is expected with arrears accrued in 2016 and 2017, considering that the renewals start from 2016. From the first months of 2018 there will therefore be an average increase of 85 euros plus a large "one-off" sum, referred to the years ago. [...]
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Take the mints left over from making soybean oil, which is usually used to feed pigs, press them and knead them with a sand-colored flour, then with rice and chili sauce. The name of the dish is “injogogi”, which means artificial meat. In North Korea it has been a recipe for survival for years. [...]
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An American man constantly complained of stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting, but the health tests were all normal. The explanation left everyone astonished and came with the X-ray, which revealed the presence of a lighter in the gastrointestinal tract. Considering the position, the liquid came out in the stomach which caused an ulcer [...]
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Halloween, an unmissable event especially for the little ones who, disguised as vampires, monsters and witches, look forward to a feast of sweets. But how can parents be sure to let their children enjoy a fun party without taking any risks? The ECM 2506 Healthcare in-Training provider and the pediatrician Lucilla Ricottini, in collaboration with Consulcesi [...]
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Codacons will present the new 3 calendar entitled 'The Ransom of Aphrodite' on November 2018rd in Rome, on the occasion of the annual 'Consumer Friend Award'. The appointment is at 16.00 pm at the Spazio Tiziano. The calendar, created by the artistic talent of the photographer Tiziana Luxardo, has as protagonists women and men with disabilities, and is [...]
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A C-130J aircraft of the 46th Pisa Air Brigade has just carried out a medical flight in favor of a newborn in urgent need of medical assistance. A medical transport carried out with a C-130J aircraft of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa of the Italian Air Force has recently been completed in favor of a newborn who needed [...]
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At 3 o'clock this night, the hands of the clocks will have to be moved back one hour. A change that, according to Codacons, will have effects for 9 million Italians, equal to 15% of the population. The shift of one hour has consequences on both the mood and the physical level. A recent study conducted in the US found that [...]
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What will the average Italian look like in 2050? It is not easy to predict, but it will almost certainly not 'see long'. Just look at today's children and adolescents, perpetually absorbed in their devices. They will be the short-sighted adults of tomorrow. A question of evolution of the species, which sees what experts define as 'homo-smartphone' making its way. "Within […]
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It is not a contagious disease and yet it still leaves its mark in people's imagination even in the workplace: as many as 65% of those who deal with psoriasis report discrimination in the workplace or at school while one in four believe it is more difficult to find a job as well as to undertake the [...]
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Pregnant, at week 28 of pregnancy, with a very rare severe ocular melanoma, which affects the eye and in pregnant women less than 0,4% of patients with melanoma in pregnancy, the one treated by the City of Health of Turin. That thanks to a delicate surgical intervention, performed by the health teams of different hospitals according to an interdisciplinary approach, [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, the EPA (US Agency for Environmental Protection) is working on the abrogation of the emission threshold levels for truck components, a standard adopted in recent months by the administration of former President Barack Obama to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that aggravate climate change. The newspaper reveals [...]
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A medical transport has just ended, carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino of the Air Force in favor of a 4-year-old girl in imminent danger of life. The flight, requested by the Prefecture of Sassari, took place from Alghero to Rome Ciampino, with the final destination the pediatric hospital “Bambino [...]
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Beta-glucan is a fiber found in barley flour and would be particularly effective in keeping the heart healthy. Hence the experimentation with a special pasta made from durum wheat semolina and barley flour. The special pasta has been successfully tested on mice. functional call has been shown to stimulate the formation of natural 'by-passes', which [...]
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It was May 2017 when the new president Donald Trump with 217 votes in favor and 213 against, approved the request for the abrogation of Obamacare in the House of Representatives. Trump attempted, failing twice despite the Republican majority in the Senate, to repeal the law both totally and partially. But what is this really [...]
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The government subsidizes health insurance for low-income American citizens to allow minimal assistance for all. But there are those who don't think so. Donald Trump said “Obamacare is over. She's dead. It shouldn't even be mentioned. It's a concept that couldn't work even in its best days ”. The Commander in chief [...]
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I was able to focus on an aspect that overlooks my emotional sphere, both as a simple human being and as a person who has chosen to make psychology his profession, I refer to the ability to "know how to be". The therapist acquires knowledge and his work tools through a path [...]
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A medical transport carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino of the Air Force in favor of a 2-month-old girl in Imminent Danger of Life (IPV) on the Catania / Rome Ciampino route has recently been completed. The transport, requested by the Prefecture of Messina, was necessary because the child [...]
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The third edition of "Pink October" is back, promoted by Lilt, the Italian League for the fight against cancer, in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice and Ulss 3 Serenissima. The calendar of initiatives was presented this morning at the Municipality of Mestre, with a press conference. The message is strong: “Let's KO him”. On the mat there must [...]
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From tomorrow, Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 October 2017, the 28th National Congress of the Italian Society of Childhood and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry - SINPIA will be held in Naples, at Villa Doria d'Angri. The scientific program, with more than 100 speakers, will address the new frontiers of knowledge in autism spectrum disorders, new rehabilitation models, the [...]
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A medical transport carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino of the Air Force has recently concluded in favor of two patients in imminent danger of life. A 63-year-old man and a 20-day-old infant on board a thermal cot were boarded at the airport of [...]
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From 3 to 27 October, in the month dedicated to the prevention of diseases affecting women, the FS Italiane Group - makes its trains available - to support the 2017 Frecciarosa awareness campaign, promoted with the IncontraDonna Onlus Association and the patronage of Ministry of Health. The initiative, which sees the support of Farmindustria [...]
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Two emergency medical flights were carried out yesterday, at the request of the Prefectures of Palermo and Reggio Calabria, received at the Top Situations Room of the Air Force Squad Command. The first flight took place in the morning, carried out with a Falcon 900, to transport a five-month-old baby from Palermo [...]
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Milan, from the evaluation made known by the European Commission, was found to be one of the candidate cities suitable to host the EMA (European Medicines Agency). Great satisfaction was expressed by Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano who stated in a note: "The document published today in Brussels confirms the solidity of our candidacy and the very high quality [...]
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Merck, a leading company in science and technology, announces the second edition of Merck for Health, the 24-hour hackathon open to startups, young talents and digital health experts, and entirely dedicated to healthcare and technological innovation: the event, promoted in collaboration with HealthwareLabs and Digital Magics HealthTech, will be held on 4 and 5 November 2017 [...]
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Obamacare, that is to say the famous health reform strongly desired by the former president of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, cannot be touched. After Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona, Senator from Maine, Susan Collins also "turns her back" on Donald Trump and considering that the Democrats form a wall [...]
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A sophisticated version of the NAO robot to help children with autism. This is what will arise from the collaboration of researchers from Enea's Robotics Laboratory with the "Pesci Rossi" multipurpose center for the disabled in Triggiano, in the province of Bari. Recent research has in fact suggested that children with autism, if made to interact with specialized robots , [...]
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Aeronautica Militare: double medical flight in a few hours to save two newborn girls in danger of life This afternoon the Air Force aircraft carried out two emergency medical flights in a few hours to transport two newborn girls in danger of life and allow their admission to specialized health facilities. On the first flight, a girl of just [...]
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The conference opens tomorrow, organized at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in the Brasca Room, "Parkinson's disease at the Gemelli Hospital". The event aims to present the neurosurgical treatments available for the treatment of this serious and disabling neurological disease. According to national data, Parkinson's disease now affects more than [...]
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An emergency medical transport from Cagliari to Rome was carried out in the late morning of today in favor of a 10-year-old girl in imminent danger of life. At 12:50 the little patient was boarded from Cagliari-Elmas airport, together with her mother and a medical team from the "Brotzu" hospital in Cagliari, aboard a Falcon [...]
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The AIFA Board of Directors approved the final ranking of the 14 Call for independent research in the session of 2016 September last. 40 studies will be funded for a total value of 31.294.724 euros out of a total of 343 protocols presented and admitted to the evaluation. The evaluation process was conducted through a system of [...]
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It was signed this morning, in the Central Military Library of Palazzo Difesa, in the presence of the Army Chief of Staff, General Danilo ERRICO, and the magnificent rector of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Professor Eugenio GAUDIO, the Convention for the activation of a degree course in nursing which will take place at [...]
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CONTINUE THE FUND RAISING FOR THE LITTLE HAPPY Check if your help has arrived for Felice CLICK HERE Video Appeal from the father of little Felice: "he needs all of us, it takes very little to help him live a better life" Christ stopped at EB - the true story of the butterfly child [...]
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According to what was published in the volume "Cancer in Italy 2017 numbers", now in its seventh edition. It is a veritable boom in the diagnosis of lung cancer among women: 13.600 in 2017 (+ 49% in 10 years), due to the strong spread of smoking among Italian women ”. The volume photographs the cancer universe in [...]
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Starting today, Thursday 14 September 2017, the experimental protocol officially kicks off, involving INPS, the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, the G. Gaslini Institute in Genoa and the Meyer University Hospital of Florence. , aimed at facilitating the medical procedure for the recognition of invalidity assistance benefits to which disabled minors are entitled. From […]
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A 12-year-old girl in imminent danger of life was urgently transported this morning from Reggio Calabria to Rome-Ciampino with a Falcon 900 plane belonging to the 31st Wing of the Air Force to be admitted to the pediatric hospital "Bambino Jesus ”of Rome. The transport request, as happens in these cases, was received from [...]
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A real 'flash mob', all standing with folded arms, to sensitize citizens and institutions on the importance of clinical research against cancer. The initiative took place yesterday afternoon at the Esmo European oncology congress in Madrid, which hosts 24000 oncologists and researchers. All united, in support of the World Research Day [...]
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Abdominal fat, that is, fat on the belly and hips, is a cancer risk factor for menopausal women, more than overall body weight. This is the conclusion reached by a Danish study presented at the European congress of oncology Esmo in Madrid. According to the researchers, when evaluating cancer risk, the index of [...]
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The Mothers Association of Colleferro has not stopped fighting and demonstrating against the Lorenzin decree which imposes vaccines on children and young people who attend compulsory schools. The Association has always opposed this provision and is always present in all national events where it is necessary to make its voice heard. On 16 September 2017, [...]
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Two Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian Air Force were engaged today in a series of ambulance flights both on the national territory and for repatriation of compatriots from abroad. The first concerned a child of just five days old who at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari was urgently transported from the capital in the morning [...]
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Having circumscribed the outbreak discovered in Anzio, the cases were located in a fairly delimited area. The Region intervened promptly with the disinfestation, which is able to greatly reduce the risk of infection and the intensity of mosquitoes ”. Although it cannot be excluded that in the previous days, some other person was infected. TO […]
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The combination of two immunotherapy molecules, nivolumab and ipilimumab, is effective in the treatment of first-line advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma, i.e. in previously untreated patients. The important findings are highlighted in the Phase III CheckMa214 study which was discontinued early. The study, presented at the ESMO 2017 European oncology congress, [...]
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The governor of Veneto Luca Zaia suspends the decree of the director of the regional health area, Domenico Mantoan, who interpreted the Lorenzin law on the obligation to vaccinate in order to postpone the decay of school enrollment for children from 2019 to 0 years to 6 not vaccinated. The Veneto Region will therefore respect the national legislation as interpreted by [...]
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The 11th International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine - (ICASM 14) will take place in Rome, from 2017 to 65 September 65, with the participation of more than 2017 scientists and experts in the sector. aero-medical from over 400 countries. The global aero-medical community will discuss both the [...]
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Anthrax alarm in a farm in the Castelli Romani, near Rome. After the death of twelve cattle for contracting the bacterium 'bacillus anthracis' - as reported by 'Il Messaggero' in a front page article entitled 'Anthrax, two hospitalized in Rome' - two people were reported to have been infected. It is a veterinarian, [...]
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This morning, in the Territory and Environment Commission, chaired by Stefano Baccelli (Pd), a bill on the protection of asbestos was presented. The proposal makes some changes to the regional law 51/2013. Ilaria Bugetti (Pd), during the session explained that the Regional Council, to elaborate the regional plan for the protection from asbestos, gave [...]
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President Vincenzo De Luca, at the news of the cancellation of the sanctions provided by the EU for 14 landfills in Campania, expresses with satisfaction the path taken by the region on the subject of environmental policies: "The first concrete results are beginning to emerge confirming that Campania is 'vanguard in environmental and land protection policies ”. The governor […]
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Federico Gelli, head of the health department of the Democratic Party, underlines: "Instrumentalizing the death of the 4-year-old girl as the center-right is doing, saying it is all the fault of the migrants, is an absolute blunder." Gelli, engaged in Florence at the Unity party which this year hosts the national thematic focus on the health sector, specified: "First of all we start from a [...]
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Ivan Zanoni and Francesca Granucci, respectively researcher and professor of general pathology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milan - Bicocca, in collaboration with Achille Broggi, researcher of the Harvard Medical School at the Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology, published in the journal Nature Immunology the results of the research carried out on inflammatory diseases of the intestine. [...]
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The use of mobile phones during pregnancy does not cause problems in the development of the children's brains. Indeed, according to a study conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and published in the journal BMC Public Health, it seems to have an almost positive role, as it reduces problems related to speech and movement. The researchers examined the data [...]
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Fatigue, lightheadedness, loss of attention and headache. Those who have these symptoms on returning from vacation are in good company: according to experts it is called 'post-vacation blues', it is a real stress from returning to everyday life and would put an Italian of ten in difficulty. Children would also suffer, who could accuse [...]
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Two children with malaria, then fortunately healed and discharged, were hospitalized in our health facility, in a different ward, in the same days when little Sofia was in this hospital. Since the transmission of malaria does not occur by air or by contact, we are investigating the hypothesis, albeit very rare, that the children had [...]
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If it were confirmed that the malaria case of the child who died in Brescia is indigenous and transmitted by mosquitoes, it would be the first for over thirty years. This is confirmed by Giampiero Carosi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Brescia, according to whom the most likely hypothesis is that a mosquito has bitten someone infected, perhaps after a trip, and then transmitted the [...]
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Aeronautica Militare, urgent sanitary flight from Lamezia Terme to Brescia for life-threatening girl
A 14-year-old girl in imminent danger of life was urgently transported this afternoon from Lamezia Terme to Brescia with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force to be hospitalized in a structure of the Territorial Social Health Authority (ASST) of the Civil Hospitals of the Lombard city. The transport request, such as [...]
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The national Fimmg, the Italian Federation of family doctors, expresses "its closeness and solidarity to the family doctor who was attacked on Friday by a patient in his office in Ferrandina, in the province of Matera, for a certificate aimed at renewing his driving license". A document in which, according to the local Fimmg, the patient asked the doctor to [...]
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According to what emerges from a research conducted by the team of Marzia Simoni of the National Research Council of Pisa and presented on the occasion of the European Respiratory Health Congress (ERS Congress) held in Milan from 9 to 13 September, passive smoke breathed in the home is strongly correlated with the prevalence of asthma in [...]
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Everything is ready for the conference that will start this evening in Guardia Piemontese on the theme of thermalism. The conference will be attended not only by the President of the Calabria Region, Mario Oliverio, but also by the deputy Stefania Covello who declared: "The spa sector is a strategic sector for the country, too often underestimated in the south and which instead can represent [...]
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The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health have issued a joint circular with operational indications, relating to the 2017/2018 school year, for the implementation of the law on vaccination prevention. The circular aims to facilitate families in fulfilling their vaccination obligations, which are at the heart of the new legislation approved to protect public health, [...]
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The first gene therapy against leukemia was given the green light in the US by the Food and Drug Administration. The US regulatory agency has approved a 'Car-T' treatment developed by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, together with the University of Pennsylvania. The therapy, trade name Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), has a cost of about 475 thousand dollars because each treatment must be [...]
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A newborn of just one day in imminent danger of life was transported urgently last night from Cagliari to Milan with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force. The little patient, inside a thermal cradle, was transferred to the Lombard capital to be hospitalized in the IRCCS (Institute of Hospitalization [...]
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Sleep disturbances are a wake-up call for dementia. In particular, the risk is increased in people who have REM sleep phases, those in which dreams are made, very short. This is indicated by a study published in Neurology by a group of Australian researchers who monitored, for 12 years, 321 people with [...]
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A medical transport carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino of the Air Force in favor of two women on the Alghero-Bologna route has recently been completed. The first transport had already been planned for a 20-year-old woman who had to be transported to the Imola hospital, when, just before take-off [...]
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While there is still no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers are working tirelessly to develop new early detection methods for this devastating disease. A new study now seems to indicate that this syndrome can be detected, even two decades before the onset of symptoms, through a simple eye test. According to experts this is the first [...]
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The "Sacro Cuore Don Calabria" in Negrar (Verona) is the first hospital to use a revolutionary radiosurgery technique that opens up new therapeutic scenarios for patients affected by numerous brain metastases and suitable, in most cases, for palliative therapy only. to prevent and soothe neurological symptoms. A treatment, the one applied for [...]
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Numerous searches and two arrests: after months of silence, with a joint operation in the Netherlands and Belgium, the judiciary finally intervened in the matter of contaminated eggs, a food alarm that has spread to eight European countries. The people arrested so far are two managers of the company involved in the use of fipronil, which the Dutch press has identified as Chickfriend; [...]
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An emergency medical transport from Alghero to Bologna has recently been completed in favor of a two-year-old child in imminent danger of life. The little patient was transported to the Emilian capital, together with his father and a medical team from the San Michele di Cagliari, aboard a Falcon 900 of [...]
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The patient was transferred from the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome to the Niguarda in Milan on board a Falcon 50 Yesterday evening a young boy of about fourteen in imminent danger of life was transported from Rome to Milan on board an aircraft Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force. On [...]
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Two medical transports, which from the first light of dawn, involved the aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of the Air Force in favor of people in danger of life. The first request for support, received from the Prefecture of Siena, involved a 66-year-old man destined to receive a heart transplant. The patient is [...]
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The press conference organized by the Bambino Gesù hospital was held today to present the results of the clinical evaluation made on the spot by the hospital doctors to little Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old baby suffering from a serious rare disease. According to the doctors: "The very serious clinical context that we found would have configured the attempted therapy [...]
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The child traveled on a Falcon 50 assisted by his parents and a medical team. Tuesday 25 July 2017. A humanitarian transport departing from Ciampino airport (Rome) with a Falcon 50 aircraft belonging to the 31st Wing of the Air Force with a 5-year-old child on board has just ended at the Galatina airport (Lecce). seriously [...]
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The requirements for enrolling in school will change from the next school year, due to the effect of the decree on compulsory vaccination. Here is how: - SCHOOL MANAGERS: upon enrollment they are obliged to request, alternatively, the documentation proving: the vaccinations carried out, the omission or postponement of the administration of the vaccine, the exemption for immunization due to natural illness, copy of the appointment booking at [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency now makes available on the institutional portal an online access system to the data of reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADR) registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network (RNF), the database for the collection, management and the analysis of reports of suspected ADRs. The RAM system (report Adverse Reactions of [...]
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In Italy there is a “red alert” for measles, with our country becoming “rearmost in the EU”, and “the decree on the mandatory nature of vaccines will not be enough to solve the problem”. The judgment of Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), is peremptory, urging the government to adopt a strategy to [...]
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The results of the tests carried out to confirm the diagnosis of measles virus infection of the little 16-month-old patient who died last June 28, who was hospitalized at the “Bambino Gesù” Pediatric Hospital, came from the National Institute of Health. The tests confirmed the presence of the wild measles virus that can be contracted by contact with [...]
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The Chief of Police, Prefect Franco Gabrielli, received this morning at the Viminale the President of AIL Onlus, Prof. Franco Mandelli, and the National President of the Voluntary Donors Association of the State Police, dr. Claudio Saltari. On this occasion, the Presidents of AIL and DONATORINATI of the State Police presented the memorandum of understanding to the Chief of Police [...]
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This morning a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force transported a 9-year-old Italian girl suffering from a serious illness from Tirana, Albania, to Bari. The humanitarian flight was requested by the Italian embassy in Albania and authorized by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to ensure the little patient the necessary [...]
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"We are moved and happy". It is the first reaction of the Gard spouses after hearing from the Gosh hospital in London that a new therapy will be attempted for their son Charlie. Piero Santantonio, president of Mitocon Onlus, who for weeks has been in contact with the parents of the child suffering from a [...]
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A New York hospital offered to ship an experimental drug to London to help little Charlie. The hospital itself offered to host the child, in case the legal obstacles to his transfer could be overcome. The Guardian reports it. The drug in question is awaiting the approval of [...]
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The attempts to bring little Charlie Gard to Italy do not stop. As confirmed by the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, some doctors of the facility, who in the past have dealt with cases of children with diseases without diagnoses or treatments, are in contact with US experts for the development of an experimental protocol [...]
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“Satisfied because we have kept together the decree from the point of view of prevention”. Thus the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin on the sidelines of the presentation of the 2016 Annual Health and Scientific Report of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, regarding the changes made to the vaccines decree in its passage to the Hygiene and Health Commission of [...]
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A C-130J aircraft of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa transported a baby girl of just 6 months from the Milan Polyclinic to Grottaglie in the early afternoon. The transfer involved boarding the ambulance inside the C-130J aircraft which contained the incubator necessary to guarantee the medical assistance it needs from a team [...]
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On the amendment to the decree on vaccines which would reduce the mandatory vaccines from 12 to 10 “the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, recently asked the Istituto Superiore di Sanita 'and the Higher Health Council for an opinion on the matter. We will provide it to the minister by today ”. This was announced by Walter Ricciardi, president of the Higher Institute of Health, on the sidelines of [...]
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From 2017 January 70 to today, the Bambino Gesu has registered over XNUMX hospitalizations for measles and among these there was the child who died in April, not vaccinated, who arrived in the hospital already affected by the disease and hospitalized in Intensive Care for the need of respiratory assistance. It is the same hospital that makes it known, confirming with [...]
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The European Court of Human Rights, as the courts of the United Kingdom had done before in the various degrees of appeal, ruled in favor of the doctors of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, pediatric center in London, who ask to unplug the newborn ten months because suffering from a serious and rare disease judged [...]
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A Falcon 50 and two crews of the 31 ° Stormo engaged in a tight relay race with the islands to save two children in imminent danger of life. A Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino transported a one-year-old girl in imminent danger of life from Catania to Rome today. The [...]
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Antonio Attianese, the soldier suffering from cancer after the missions in Afghanistan and who had long fought to obtain adequate compensation and assumptions of responsibility on behalf of all the victims of depleted uranium, died today in his home in Sant 'Egidio of Monte Albino. The Assoranger associations made it known [...]
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Lorenzin, Gelli, Burioni and others politically exploited the death of a child and falsely criminalized a family to campaign in favor of their decree and to support the herd immunity thesis as if it were scientific evidence. They tried to make believe that the cause of death was [...]
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The decree law wanted by Minister Lorenzin, which concerns the compulsory vaccination for children and young people, is not a little agitating associations all over Italy. In Veneto some parents are thinking of enrolling their children in school across the border. Others have decided not to respect the legislative dictate and go up to the front [...]
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What happened is a very serious fact and also difficult to comment on but we must realize that when we say that vaccinations save life, it really is, they save it to individuals and to the community. Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin reiterated this, referring to the story of the Monza child, in Casamassima near [...]
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An Air Force Falcon 50 transported an eighteen month old baby girl in imminent danger of life from Catania to Rome in the early afternoon. The mission, requested by the Prefecture of Messina, was arranged by the Situation Room at the top of the command of the Air Squad, the operations room from where they are coordinated [...]
read moreThe German government wants to insert in the vaccine law the obligation for nursery schools to report to the municipal authorities those parents who refuse advice on the matter. Those who do not accept the advice may therefore be exposed to fines of up to 2500 euros. The issue will be discussed in parliament next Tuesday and could come into effect already [...]
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The German government wants to insert in the vaccine law the obligation for nursery schools to report to the municipal authorities those parents who refuse advice on the matter. Those who do not accept the advice may therefore be exposed to fines of up to 2500 euros. The issue will be discussed in parliament next Tuesday and could come into effect already [...]
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Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin was challenged this afternoon during an event in Gorizia as part of the 'eStoria' review. A group of No Vax activists - about fifty people in all - approached the minister outside the tent where his speech was scheduled. "Shame" some women shouted and the [...]
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Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin was challenged this afternoon during an event in Gorizia as part of the 'eStoria' review. A group of No Vax activists - about fifty people in all - approached the minister outside the tent where his speech was scheduled. "Shame" some women shouted and the [...]
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During this month, Fincantieri launched the second part of the innovative corporate welfare plan envisaged by the supplementary contract signed with FIM, FIOM, UILM, FAILMS and UGL on June 24, 2016, launching a series of meetings illustrating the mechanisms and related employee benefits. In particular, at the end of [...]
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After almost 20 years, thanks to the alarm for the collapse of the roofs and the consequent return of diseases that were believed to have been eradicated (measles in the first place), mandatory vaccines are returning to Italy. The Council of Ministers, after more than two hours dedicated to settling the differences between the ministers Lorenzin and Fedeli, has in fact passed the proposed decree [...]
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A Falcon 900 of the Air Force has just landed at Linate airport, coming from Cagliari, carrying a baby just under two months old in imminent danger of life and in need of urgent care at the San Donato Milanese Polyclinic. The mission, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, was coordinated by the Situation Room [...]
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The doctor may refuse to 'unplug the machine' that keeps a patient alive when the patient has decided to give up health care. One of the key amendments (presented by the Social Affairs Commission) of the law on informed consent and advance treatment provisions passed with 281 votes, 120 against and ten abstentions. On [...]
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