After a year of activity’s suspension, the colorful gardenias of AISM – Italian Association Multiple Sclerosis – come back to the Italian squares. On the occasion of both the national week and the World Day dedicated to this serious degenerative disease, the gardenias can turn from easy bouquets into a fundraiser for the research and...Read More
Providing knowledge on the characteristics of food, on the effect they produce on the state of one’s health, the acknowledgment of each nutrient’s composition, and hygiene safety: these are some of the skills that graduates in the Human Nutrition Sciences Program will have to acquire during the new study course launched from the UniCamillus International...Read More
We have seen them on the front line, constantly at work, regardless of their condition of stress or fatigue. We have seen their faces marked by the constant use of personal protective equipment, and their eyes reddened by glasses and protective screens. We have seen them collapsed from exhaustion on computer keyboards while still wearing...Read More
One dose of Vaxevria, AstraZeneca’s drug, or Comirnaty, Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug, is enough to reduce the Coronavirus infection by circa 66% and protect the elderly and vulnerable people as much as younger and healthier people. This was revealed by a study conducted by the University of Oxford and the British Office for National Statistics on a...Read More
For over a year, the public attention has been entirely for the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which has rewritten the daily life of the entire planet. Yet, Covid-19 has not canceled the other preexisting pathologies. On the contrary, in many cases, it has become the reason for diagnostic delays and slowdowns of therapies already in place. Fortunately,...Read More
The color chosen is blue and will illuminate several Italian cities, starting with government buildings and the Capitoline Hill. The story told is about autism spectrum disorders. The World Autism Awareness Day, established in 2007 by the UN General Assembly, wants to turn the light on that heterogeneous set of neurodevelopmental disorders expressed with different...Read More
Edited by Antonella Cerchiari Deglutology has become a true specialization in Medical Sciences. Over time, the improvement in survival rates of premature infants and children with neuromotor disabilities, the increase in life expectancy, the evolution of diagnostic techniques and greater sensitivity to the issue have impacted daily clinical practice, resulting in an exponential increase in...Read More
Edited by Maria Concetta Pellicciari, Professor at UniCamilus On World Sleep Day, today we celebrate sleep, a condition that characterises about a third of our existence. The initiative promoted by the World Sleep Society (https://worldsleepsociety.org), which has adopted the slogan ‘Regular sleep, Healthy future’ for this year’s edition, aims at raising international awareness of the...Read More
The Italian Agency for Drugs admitted the refundability of the gene therapy with Zolgensma at expense of the National Healthcare System for every child who suffers from SMA, with a weight under 13,5 kilos. The active substance of this therapy, the Onasemnogene Abeparvovec, consists of human gene material capable of treating a severe degenerative disease...Read More
