Insight French women living in the country’s most disadvantaged areas have a 25% worse breast cancer survival rate than those living in the least deprived areas. The 5-year survival rate was 88.2% in the poorest areas compared to 92.5% in the least disadvantaged areas, a difference of 4.3 percentage points. The differences were greatest in […]
A meta-analysis reports a lower incidence of haematological toxicity than similar drugs. Context The immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab is approved in the United States and Europe for at least 10 types of cancer, including melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and gastric cancers. Nivolumab works by inhibiting the immunosuppressive molecule programmed cell death protein […]
FNOMCeO Corte di Cassazione (Order n.9218/2022) Resident doctors The Supreme Court has stated that, for doctors who obtained their specialization in the years 1983-91, it is not necessary to indicate also the number of years of the specialty obtained for the purpose of quantifying compensation for damages for failure to timely transpose the Community directives […]
Rome, Dec. 14. (Adnkronos Health) – From zero to 6 tenths with a half-hour operation: a 76-year-old patient returns to see after 5 years of blindness. It is the result of the first transplant in Italy, the hundredth in the world, made with an endothelial prosthesis in polymeric material that works as an endothelium of […]
Rome, 3 Feb. (Adnkronos Salute) – “The bill on differentiated autonomy approved by the CDM contradicts the founding principles of our constitutional charter, and in particular calls into question the universality of the National Health Service and its fundamental public nature”, says Domenico Proietti, Uil-Fpl commissioner. “Before the changes and approval – he underlines – […]
Florence, 14 Feb. – (Adnkronos Salute) – The Health Commission of the Regional Council, chaired by Enrico Sostegni (Pd), has expressed by majority opinion in favor of the appointment of Massimo Braganti, proposed by the President of the Region Eugenio Giani as the new director of Estar, the technical and administrative support body of Tuscan […]
Milan, 17 Mar. (Adnkronos Salute) – From Stockholm to Pavia to treat a potentially fatal arrhythmia, which since he was a child caused him continuous cardiac arrests. A 17-year-old Swedish boy, suffering from a severe tachycardia of genetic origin called Cpvt (catecholamine polymorphic ventricular tachycardia), was operated at St. Matthew’s Polyclinic that the doctors of […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco Web activation and publication of monitoring forms Registro Venetoclax according to Law 648/96 Users of the Drug Registers subject to Monitoring are informed that, following the publication of the AIFA Determine in the OJ n. 243 of and n. 247 of , starting from it is possible to use, in […]
For For patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), especially those with macrovascular invasion, stereotactic radiation therapy (SBRT) appears to offer a survival benefit when combined with systemic therapy. This is the result of a Phase 3 clinical trial presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting. For inoperable HCC or in cases that […]
Milan, 15 Mar. (Adnkronos Salute) – “World first” cardiac surgery in Padua, where a 62-year-old man with severe mitral regurgitation and atrial fibrillation was subjected simultaneously to valve plastic and fibrillation ablation with auricle closure, all with a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation. “Rapid and immediate” the recovery of the patient, at his first heart […]