A robust meta-analysis provides evidence of class I in favor of antihypertensive treatment. Knowledge Elderly patients with hypertension whose blood pressure-_(BP) is effectively treated with medication have a lower risk of developing dementia. Dementia prevention thus provides another reason for the treatment of hypertension, in addition to the positive effect on cardiovascular risk. Why this matters […]
Ministry of Health Circular of Estimate of the prevalence of VOC variants (Variant Of Concern) and other variants of Sars-CoV-2 in Italy – Reproduction reserved and for personal use– Download the complete document in PDF format from the link at the bottom of the page Access to the site is limited and reserved for professionals […]
Ministry of Health Circular no. 51786 of Interventions in progress for the management of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in the winter season 2022-2023 The European Commission, in the Communication of 1, recommends the transition from emergency management to sustainable management. With the end of the national health emergency defined by Legislative Decree no. 242, to […]
Ministry of Health Cholera Global Update Note on epidemic events abroad Since 2021, there has been an increase in cholera cases and their geographical distribution globally. In 2021, 23 countries reported cholera outbreaks, mainly in the WHO’s Africa and Eastern Mediterranean Regions. This trend continued in 2022 with more than 29 countries reporting cholera cases […]
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 […]