Background Previous studies have shown that smoking increases cancer-specific and all-cause mortality in women with breast cancer. However, the benefits of smoking cessation in women with breast cancer are controversial. Insight Among women with breast cancer, smokers had a 22%-25% higher risk of cancer-specific mortality or mortality compared to non-smokers.All-cause mortality. This result corresponds in […]
Ministry of Health Circular of Indications for use of the VidPrevtyn Beta (Sanofi) vaccine as part of the anti-Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 vaccination campaign The Technical Scientific Commission of AIFA, in the session of , accepting the opinion expressed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), approved the indication of use of the VidPrevtyn Beta vaccine (Sanofi), as a […]
By Ute Eppinger Every year, skin cancers in men and women increase by 10%. In Germany, around 260,000 people are diagnosed with black or light skin cancer every year. At the press conference “Spektrum Dermatologie 2022” it became clear that climate change also leads to an increase in terrestrial UV radiation due to special stratospheric […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco Web activation and publication of monitoring cards – Registro Opdivo (mCRC) Users of the Drug Registries subject to Monitoring are informed that, following the publication of the AIFA Determine in the OJ no. 256 of , starting from the it is possible to use, under the NHS reimbursement scheme, OPDIVO […]
Key messages On a pseudoaneurysm of the superior thyroid artery as “very rare cause of throat swelling” Dr. Jiri Podzimek and colleagues from the Bad Salzungen Hospital. Such a pseudoaneurysm is dangerous because it can rupture. This can have fatal consequences, such as obstruction of the airways, Podzimek and his colleagues explain.The reason for the […]
Knowledge The pooled analysis of 18 studies with more than 430,000 participants in a meta-analysis found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with a 36% increase in cancer risk. In the subgroup of patients with moderate to severe OSA, the risk was significantly higher, namely more than twice as high , while there was […]
By Christoph Renninger In January 1686, a tumor formed on the Sun King’s buttocks. His personal physician Antoine Daquin describes the tumor as a small lump, two finger widths away from the anus, not painful, reddened or pulsating. The lump was probably triggered by an inflamed gland, as this was common in the 17th century. […]
Milan, 8 Feb. (Adnkronos Health) – Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder. For eating disorders there has been a ‘Covid effect’ that in Lombardy has led to almost tripling cases among the very young: among children and adolescents aged between 6 and 16 years, compared to the pre-pandemic period, there has been an increase in these […]
In Japan, researchers have created viable mice with two biological fathers. The team led by Katsuhiko Hayashi from the University of Osaka converted skin cells from male mice into egg cells in the laboratory in several steps, , as the researchers write in the journal Nature. These eggs were fertilized with sperm from other male […]
Rome, 21 Feb. (Adnkronos Health) () – In Italy “bad malnutrition and bad eating habits cost more than 50 billion a year, we are talking about diabetes mellitus, malnutrition and obesity”. So Antonino De Lorenzo, Professor of Food and Human Nutrition at the Tor Vergata University of Rome, today in Rome in his speech at […]