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Covid may lead to diabetes: the Italian-American study in "Nature Metabolism"
Published in the journal "Nature Metabolism" and developed by Ospedale Sacco, Ospedale San Paolo and the University of Milan with an international team that includes the University of Pisa and Harvard Medical School among its partners
Ethiopia to vaccinate 2 million against cholera in Tigray region
Ethiopia today officially launched a preventive oral cholera vaccination campaign targeting 2 million people aged 1 year and above in Tigray region in the north of the country to avert a potential outbreak
Titanium knee prosthesis from 3D printer: Gemelli receives world's first implant
3D titanium prostheses: the inventor of these revolutionary prostheses was Dr Ivan De Martino together with two other American colleagues, Dr Thomas Sculco and Dr Peter Sculco, with whom he worked for seven years in New York
Treatment and Prognosis of Mediastinitis: what are mediastinal infections?
Mediastinal infections (jointly referred to as mediastinitis) are primarily related to surgery, perforation of the esophagus and infectious spread from adjacent regions, with incidence varying by clinical setting. Postoperative…
Paediatrics, at the Bambino Gesù the first heart transplant with Covid+ donor and negative recipient
Heart transplant and Covid+ emergency: at the Bambino Gesù the first paediatric case, one of the first two cases ever authorised by the National Transplant Centre. The 15-year-old boy, who received a new heart, was treated with monoclonal…
Covid, Oncology Chiefs on Telemedicine for patients: only 1 ward out of 10 had access to digital…
Oncology and Telemedicine: "As many as 90% of Italian medical oncology departments did not have access to telemedicine platforms for remote patient care during the second phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. This technological gap was even more…
Italy, kidney tumour extending into the heart removed by robot and tumour-suction cannula
A kidney tumour, extending all the way to the heart, was removed using an innovative technique never before tried in the world
Paediatrics, new ablation technique for tachycardia at the Bambino Gesù in Rome
"A new, more precise and safer ablation technique for nodal re-entry tachycardia, the most frequent of the various forms of tachycardia in children"
Who gets tuberculosis? Harvard Medical School study on immune cell deficiency
Tuberculosis, a potentially widespread disease: Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, but less than 15 percent of infected…
Alzheimer's: Fda approves Aduhelm, first drug against the disease after 20 years
Alzheimer's disease, US Fda approves Aduhelm: it consists of one intravenous injection per month that 'may help slow the cognitive decline of patients in the early stages of the neurodegenerative disease'.