Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have said the Ebola outbreak in the vast central African country has entered “a new phase” after a case of the deadly virus was detected in the north-west city of Mbandaka.
The first urban case significantly escalates the risk of an epidemic, and has...
In the often fragmented and polarized Italian healthcare landscape—caught between overcrowded public facilities and sometimes impersonal private practices—there are experiences that stand out as models. One of these is the C.Ur.E Group – European Urological Center – founded and led by Dr. Giovanni Ferrari, who has succeeded in combining...
Focal laser ablation, the care of the future!
Prostate cancer, the incidence of which has increased significantly in recent years, accounts for about 20% of all malignancies diagnosed among men from 50 years of age. Currently the therapeutic protocol, in patients considered low-medium risk, consists of laparoscopic or robotic radical...
Masullo Medical Group looks to the future with the FUE mini-invasive technique
Hair loss is a problem affecting millions of people of all ages: in recent years, therefore, medical science has tried to refine interventional methods in order to achieve increasingly natural and permanent results over time, to fully satisfy...
The dott. Lorenzo Fonzone, Orthopedic Surgeon of the Percutaneous Bianchi System (PBS), explains the value of innovation in the field of microsurgery of the foot
More than 8,000 microsurgery operations of the foot performed in the last year by the surgeons of the PBS team. The team, led by the...
Ibuprofen taken by women in their first three months of pregnancy might reduce a daughter’s number of eggs, potentially affecting the child’s future fertility, according to research carried out on human cells in the lab.
It is generally thought that women are born with a fixed number of eggs, although controversial...
owever much my shoulder burned and stung and ached, the pleasure at being able to lie in total peace was greater.” This is how Karl Ove Knausgaard felt after he broke his collarbone at football practice. The Norwegian writer had spent the past four years taking care of a young family...
Humans continue to produce new neurons in a part of their brain involved in learning, memory and emotion throughout adulthood, scientists have revealed, countering previous theories that production stopped after adolescence. The findings could help in developing treatments for neurological conditions such as dementia.
Many new neurons are produced in...
Osteoporosis, a chronic disease characterized by alterations of the bone structure with consequent reduction of resistance to mechanical load and an increased risk of fractures, undoubtedly represents a disease of social importance: the World Health Organization estimates that in Italy they are affected 1 out of 3 women over...
Diabetes that begins in adulthood falls into five distinct categories, new research has revealed, with scientists suggesting it is time to ditch the idea that diabetes is largely split into two types.
Researchers say all of the newly classified subgroups are genetically distinct and have numerous differences, including the age at which...
