Milan, 20 Jan. (Adnkronos Health) — Shortage of antibiotics under the lens in the EU. The European Medicines Agency EMA, the European Commission and the Directors of Medicines Agencies (HMA), through the Executive Steering Group on Shortage and Safety of Medicines (MSSG), «are closely monitoring» the phenomenon «and responding to the current shortages affecting the […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco 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: — All rights reserved […]
Dementia It is one of the main public health problems in the elderly population. According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), currently about 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, and this number is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades, reaching more than 130 million prevalent cases by 2050 [1]. Despite […]
Rome, March 7. (Adnkronos Health) — «Investing in prevention means investing in health, having fewer sick people and a more sustainable National Health Service. When we talk about chronic-degenerative diseases we are talking about cardiovascular and nephrological diseases that in most cases recognize diabetes, obesity and hypertension as causes. Therefore, by adopting correct lifestyles we […]
Although Melanoma is the most serious skin cancer, most patients have a high probability of survival. New searches have now identified a subset of patients with early-stage disease who have a very low risk of death from the disease. In a cohort of 11,594 patients, the overall 7 -year melanoma death rate was 2.5%, but the risk […]
Few others times an election has closely affected doctors, and more generally health workers, such as the one to be held next Sunday and Monday, 12 and 13 February, in Lombardy and Lazio. The evidence of the pandemic has in fact mercilessly uncovered all the multiple points of vulnerability of the system: the lack of […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco AIFA publishes the 2021 Vaccine Report In 2021, out of a total of about 20.5 million doses administered in Italy for all types of vaccines — excluding anti-Covid-19 vaccines — 18,060 reports were included in the National Pharmacovigilance Network, of which 15,978 refer to suspected adverse events that occurred in […]
Key messages Cough, runny nose and a rash are usually unpleasant; in rare cases, they can also be embarrassing. Because cold viruses or an allergy to grass Co. are not always the causative «villains», as the medical history of a 27-year-old patient shows, which the US urologist Dr. Andrew Shanholtzer and his colleagues from the […]
Monogenic diabetes Clinical guidance document Monogenic diabetes (DM) is a form of genetically determined diabetes, caused by mutations in a single gene. Most DM genes cause a deficiency in the number or function of pancreatic beta cells, but there are forms of DM with autoimmune pathogenesis that also result in reduced insulin secretion and forms […]
Stem cell therapies Vademecum to help patients and families To help patients and families to orient themselves and avoid more easily baseless promises and scams that aim only to enrich those who envisage «miracle cures», Osservatorio Terapie Avanzati (OTA) provides a vademecum in ten points. The focus is on stem cell-based therapies, an area of […]