Since the pandemic began, it was immediately evident that there were substantial differences in patients’ response to infection: specifically, to equal symptoms, some needed hospitalization while others could be cared for at home. What distinguishes these two groups? But most of all how is it possible to identify early on people who are at risk […]
Tag: Health
Evusheld, how it works and when the new drug that prevents Covid arrives
The EMA had started its so-called continuous review already in mid-October. But it has not yet provided an opinion or conditional marketing authorization. The countries, however, can proceed independently and in fact on 20 January the decree of the Ministry of Health was published in the Official Gazette with which Evusheld, we are talking about, […]
Psychologist bonus, go-ahead in commission: here’s how it will work
Deleted from the budget law and reintroduced in the deadline extension, the so-called “milleproroghe”. The psychologist bonus in the end it passed in the night between 16 and 17 February, with a go-ahead from the joint Constitutional Affairs and Budget Committees of the Chamber and thanks in particular to the commitment of the deputy PD […]
The forgotten sacrifice of doctors: the story of Samar, who died from Covid
“I’m a doctor, not a politician. I will not go into the merits of the matter. What hurts me is that even the soldiers who die in the field are paid at least a medal. The dead don’t come back, unfortunately. But who is alive today and is fighting the virus, who suffers the consequences […]
Pediatric cancers, leaps and bounds but tailor-made treatments are needed
Every year around the world they get cancer about 250 thousand children. In Italy the new diagnoses of cancer are about 1,400 in children up to 14 years and 800 in adolescents between 15 and 19 years. Research has made enormous strides in the treatment of these diseases: today in over 70% of cases – […]
Medicines and Side Effects: Risks are more often seen in women
What has changed today?“Recently there has been an awareness on the part of the regulatory authorities, first in the United States then in Europe and finally also in Italy where in the 2018 entered into force on Lorenzin decreewhich also obligatorily introduces the experimentation of drugs on women before being placed on the market. Today, […]
A potential super vaccine against all variants of Sars-CoV-2 passes the first tests
Among the many teams that are working on a vaccine against all possible variants of Sars-Cov-2, or at least promising a rather broad umbrella defense capable of relieving us from the constant pursuit of mutations, there is also one from the National Center for Global Health of the Italian Higher Institute of Health. Which has […]
Bonus psychologist, the government rethinks it: it will be included in the Milleproroghe decree
He had been excluded from the Budget Law at the last minute – last December – for lack of financial coverage. The sudden cancellation of the Psychologist Bonus was one of the most disappointing news at the beginning of 2022, in the middle of the Omicron variant pandemic. A choice contested by civil society, by […]
More masks outdoors: right caution or “sign of psychosis”
“Today in Milan 9 out of 10 people still wear masks outdoors and this, for me, is not a sign of responsibility but of worrying collective psychosis, the daughter of ignorance, disinformation and irrationality”. Alberto Zangrillo he doesn’t mince words. The director of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department of the San Raffaele hospital speaks […]
Polycystic ovary syndrome: is it really difficult to get pregnant?
It is considered theendocrine alteration more common in childbearing age so much that it is estimated to be striking the 5-10% of the female population. Let’s talk about the polycystic ovary syndromeor PCOS (PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome), a disorder that Chiara Ferragni recently said she also suffered. What is it about? “That of the polycystic ovary […]
