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 […]
Florence, 17 Mar. – (Adnkronos) – “The hardest phase of the Covid pandemic has been put behind us. Now, however, we must give gratitude to the doctors and health personnel who from the first day have been on the front line, taking risks, and never backing down”. This was stated by Pietro Dattolo, president of […]
Patients with diabetic neuropathy had both pain relief and neurological improvements 2-_ years after the start of spinal cord stimulation with 10-kHz. This is according to research published prior to its presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. The results are based on the longest available follow-up to spinal cord stimulation […]
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco Web activation and publication of monitoring cards – First-line Opdivo Registry (Adenocarcinoma of the stomach, junction and esophagus) 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 it is possible to use, […]
In population screening, a single CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) has an identification rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) and advanced adenoma greater than a single fecal immunochemical test (FIT for the detection of occult blood in feces). However, three rounds of FIT have a significantly higher identification rate than virtual colonoscopy.To say it is an Italian […]
Large international cohort study finds “insufficient evidence of excessive harm” from this off-label application. Knowledge Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) appeared in patients with ischemic stroke who had occurred in the last 48 hours of direct oral anticoagulant nbsp (DOAC) were not associated with an excessive risk of symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage. Why this matters US-American and European Guidelines […]
Florence, 2 mar. (Adnkronos Health) – The presence of a skin lesion of the lower limb can lead to a marked decline in the quality of life. To understand how to improve the care and assistance to patients with skin lesions, even serious ones, specialists of the Asl Toscana Centro and leading national and international […]