ARS Toscana (Agenzia Regionale di Sanita’) Health and quality of life of the elderly in Tuscany The results of the survey Passi d’argento 2021 Rapporti Ars, n. 3 Passi d’argento is a national surveillance system promoted and coordinated by the Istituto superiore di sanità (ISS) and implemented in the individual Italian regions, who participate in […]
Wetlands play an ambivalent role in climate protection. On the one hand, they are of outstanding ecological importance as a habitat for numerous animals, as groundwater filters, flood protection and important carbon sinks. They can thus contribute to reducing the greenhouse effect. On the other hand, however, wetlands emit the highly climate-affecting gas methane-(CH4), which […]
The news that some scientists have included OpenAI (the consortium that has developed some artificial intelligence systems including Chat GPT) among the authors of scientific papers has aroused immediate reactions from both the research community and that of peer reviewed journal editors (1). In reality, Chat GPT is not the first artificial intelligence (AI) to […]
Rome, 21 Mar. (Adnkronos Salute) – Italy is the second country in the world, preceded by the USA and followed by Belgium and Great Britain, leading research on patients with disorders of conscience. The role of Italian specialists and centers in national and international research on disorders of consciousness and severe acquired brain injuries was […]
Key messages Chronic loneliness, but not temporary loneliness, is an independent risk factor for declining autonomy in both sexes. Chronic loneliness increases the risk of declining autonomy in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in women, but not in men. To prevent functional disability, interventions are appropriate to prevent the loneliness of the elderly from […]
In the elderly, hearing loss is associated with a higher prevalence of dementia. The prevalence increases with increasing severity of hearing loss, while decreasing with the use of hearing aids. In a representative sample of the U.S. elderly population, with more than half of participants over 80, moderate to severe hearing loss is associated with […]
Women with mental illness, neuropsychiatric disability, or substance abuse are less likely to undergo gynecologic smear testing for cervical cancer and are more than twice the risk of developing the disease. The findings are presented in The Lancet Public Health by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, who emphasize the importance of proactively approaching these women […]
Core messages The Oncology Guideline Program has updated its S3 renal cell carcinoma guideline. For the first time, the revised version contains a chapter on diagnosis and therapy of non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Treatment recommendations for non-clear cell renal cell carcinomas According to the WHO classification, there are more than 15 different entities in […]
Since 2017, even great white sharks off the South African coast are no longer safe from predators: .”Port”and”Starboard”, as the marine mammals are called, are not limited to great white sharks, as an event from the beginning of March-_2023 shows: In the feeding frenzy, the two whales killed at least 17 and perhaps even 19 […]
AIFA Italian Drug Agency Hepatitis C update of the on enrolled patients The Italian Medicines Agency makes available the weekly update of the data relating to treatments with the new second-generation direct antiviral drugs (DAAs) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, collected by the AIFA Monitoring Registers. Published on – Reproduction reserved and for […]