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Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
Drug allergies: what are the symptoms and how are they diagnosed?
Drug allergies are an issue that mainly affects adult patients, as they are more likely than younger people to have taken one or more drugs over the years in such large numbers that they have become sensitised to them
Brazil surpasses the 500,000 death mark by Covid-19
On Saturday, the 19th, Brazil surpassed the mark of 500,000 killed by Covid-19
Covid, WHO: 'A vaccine production hub will be operational in South Africa within a year'
Covid vaccine production in Africa: it will be operated by local biotechnology company Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines and will produce mRNA serums like those of Pfizer and Moderna
Cytomegalovirus, Bambino Gesù Rome: how the immune system can defeat it
Cytomegalovirus: 'They look like healthy cells and so they hide from the immune system, but they are infected by an insidious virus that can trigger serious infections in immunocompromised patients
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…