Leipzig/Berlin (pag) – The German Depression Aid and Suicide Prevention Foundation (DDH) has published the results of this year’s Germany Barometer Depression. Accordingly, 23 percent of respondents currently suffer from a diagnosed depression, eight percent fall ill every year. Prof. Ulrich Hegerl, Chairman of the DDH, points out treatment offers and talks to those affected. […]
Conclusions Treatment with phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitors (phosphoinositide 3-kinase, PI3K) of patients with different types of cancers is associated with a higher risk of mild to severe skin adverse events. Why it matters Adherence to treatment of cancer patients is essential to achieve optimal therapeutic benefit.An important problem with the use of PI3K inhibitors stems from […]
If When parents bring their children to Dr. Caroline Piggott to have a suspicious mole on the scalp or other part of the body examined, the vast majority turn out to be benign because the incidence of melanoma is low, especially before puberty. “Only 1 to 2% of all melanoma in the world occurs in […]
The At its meeting in December 2022 a Extension forDapagliflozin (Forxiga, Edistride, AstraZeneca) recommended: The SGLT-2 inhibitor is indicated in adults for the treatment of symptomatic chronic heart failure, with the restriction to patients with “reduced ejection fraction” to be eliminated in the future. Dapagliflozin is also used in type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco AIFA introduces a specialized therapeutic plan for the medicine During the procedure for renegotiating the reimbursement and price conditions of the ranolazine medicine (), the AIFA Technical Scientific Commission (CTS) modified the conditions of prescription of the drug. In particular, in order to promote prescriptive appropriateness, a therapeutic plan […]
Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is the most common metabolic complication observed in cancer patients and is associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. It is estimated to affect 2% to 30% of patients and is observed more frequently in patients with breast, lung and kidney cancer, as well as multiple myeloma. The Endocrine […]
Ultrasound renal denervation seems effective and safe according to a study published in Jama. At 2 months of follow-up, this type of denervation reduced the daytime systolic blood pressure of middle-aged people with hypertension who had discontinued antihypertensive medications compared to a control procedure, with no major adverse events being found. Why it matters […]
Epigenetics of violence against women EpiWE study Summaries of the 08 conference- Violence against women is a significant health and social problem whose consequences can lead to greater physical morbidity and mortality. This shadow pandemic crosses all social classes and different ethnicities and represents one of the most significant factors that negatively affect women’s health […]
Key messages In countries with well-structured and well-funded health systems, the life expectancy of people living with HIV has almost converged with that of the general population. However, differences in lifetime in good health remain: already in the early 50s People with HIV have twice as many comorbidities as non-infected people and these differences persist […]
ISS Istituto Superiore di Sanita’ Mortality in Italy in 2019 Rapporti ISTISAN 22/28 The report presents a descriptive analysis of mortality in our country in the year 2019. For general mortality and the main causes of death (35 for men, 36 for women), tables with standardised rates and absolute numbers of deaths and maps with […]