Health

ROME (ITALPRESS) – Andrea Mandelli has been confirmed president of the Federation of Orders of Italian Pharmacists (Fofi) for the four-year period 2025-2029. The proclamation took place yesterday, at the end of the elections for the renewal of the offices […]

ROME (ITALPRESS) – Integrated Home Care (ADI) is essential to ensure adequate health care for the elderly with chronic diseases, “but in recent years, despite the increase in the number of caregivers, the quality of the service has not improved

PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – Maria Lucia Furnari is the new medical director of the Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia-Cervello in Palermo. A Palermo native, a specialist in infectious diseases, respiratory diseases as well as General Medicine, Furnari arrives from the direction

ROME (ITALPRESS) – “The Plasma Journey,” a photographic exhibition that offers a visual journey through the process of producing life-saving plasma-derived drugs from blood donation, is coming to Rome. The initiative, which has already been hosted in Siena and Florence,

MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Autism or autism spectrum disorder is a neurobiological condition manifested by difficulties in communication, social interaction and repetitive or restricted behaviors. The extent of symptoms is very wide: some individuals present mild difficulties, while others require significant

MILAN (ITALPRESS) – The autonomic nervous system is a key component of the nervous system that automatically controls many vital functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration. It is composed of the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates

MILAN (ITALPRESS) – A marketing authorization for Sanofi’s trivalent formulation of the high-dose influenza vaccine, under the trade name Efluelda, has been published in the Official Gazette, and will be available in Italy starting with the upcoming 2025/2026 flu season.The

VERONA (ITALPRESS) – A ceremony was held today, on the fourth anniversary of his death, to name the Cystic Fibrosis Center Operating Unit after Professor Gianni Mastella, a Verona pediatrician who since the 1960s has been a pioneer and protagonist

RAHWAY (UNITED STATES) (ITALPRESS) – MSD has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of V116 (21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) for active immunization for the prevention of

MILAN (ITALPRESS) – The brain is the main organ of the central nervous system and the control center of bodily and mental activities. Protected by the skull and bathed in cerebrospinal fluid, it consists of billions of neurons and glial