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...
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...
More and more patient-sized techniques
For a long time, open surgery was the only possible approach to the treatment of diseases of the spine. Over the last few years, however, thanks to the technological evolution and the availability of increasingly precise and cutting-edge instruments, a series of alternative intervention methods...
It’s late 2001 and Crown Princess Masako of Japan is having a baby. Her husband, Crown Prince Naruhito, is heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy. Sinking into its fourth recession in a decade, Japan hungers for good news and hopes Masako might have a boy....
A NEW FILTERING DEVICE FOR CORONAVIRUS
Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus emergency, air filtration systems are becoming increasingly important to protect public health and consequently improve the quality of work environments.
Engineer Michele Ramaglia, shareholder of Adiramef S.r.l. - a Campana company highly specialized in the technical assistance of electromedical,...
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...
The considerable point of view of dr. Santoro on the treatment of temporomandibular disorders
The temporomandibular joint disorders, which in Italy affect about 12% of the population and 33% have at least one symptom, include a variety of clinical situations that in addition to negatively affect mastication, swallowing and posture,...
Visual defects (nearsightedness, astigmatism and farsightedness) are becoming increasingly common, and refractive surgery now offers several cutting-edge techniques (excimer laser and femtosecond laser) to eliminate them definitively in a completely safe and painless manner. "Beyond the age of 40, however, when the patient's defect exceeds the corrective possibilities of...
Depression is a feeling of perennial sadness associated with a reduction of interest or pleasure in daily activities; sometimes it can be so intense or profound that it interferes with the patient's quality of life, causing him or her to have no prospects, not to live serenely in the...
Obesity is a growing problem that has reached worrying proportions worldwide, with millions of people suffering from this pathological condition (according to the WHO, more than one billion people worldwide suffer from obesity and the numbers are those of an epidemic). This chronic condition - which has devastating effects...
