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

“We believe in the degree course that you have undertaken, in the professional choice you made. For this reason Randstad, which have partnered with UniCamillus and Fondazione Progetto Salute for a few years, has decided to offer you the opportunity of an open-ended job contract , right after a Degree in the Health Professions that...Read More

Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted all the issues of the national healthcare system, first of all the deficit of the healthcare professionals able to cope with the emergency without adding structural fragility to the system.The photos of the hospitals at the collapse, those of physicians and nurses exhausted because of the too long shifts, are always...Read More

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February: facing the issue to protect the integrity of women In 2012, the UN General Assembly designated February 6th as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. The extent of this phenomenon is evident simply considering numbers. Worldwide, approximately 125 million women...Read More

The use of Remdesivir, the drug developed by Gilead for the treatment of Covid-19, is able to reduce the number of ICU patients by more than 17000 units and, potentially, prevent about 7000 deaths in 5 months. These are the results of the application of a model developed by a team of health economists from...Read More

“Neoplastic pathology will be the next pandemic”. Professor Piero Luigi Alò, expert in neoplastic pathology and lecturer in Pathological Anatomy in the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery of UniCamillus, is clear in this regard: “cancer does not slow down, and remains a priority even if now everyone’s attention is on the global spread of...Read More

Curated by Filomena Pietrantonio, Professor at UniCamillus  “A fat giraffe”, it may seem a paradox, but it really is the symbol of the change currently taking place in the whole world, Developing Countries included; it is the symbol of the main risk factors, and so of the causes of illness and death at a global...Read More

Interview to Angelo Coppola, Professor at UniCamillus Today the World Pneumonia Day is celebrated all around the world through an awareness campaign “PneumoLight”, “Light for education and prevention of pneumonia – 2020-2024”, organized by the Association for the support and information of family members and pneumonia patients (Neumoai). The event also aims to raise public...Read More

A new agreement was signed with Banca Intesa Sanpaolo thanks to which the students of UniCamillus – International Medical University of Rome can count on financial support specifically designed by the banking group to allow them to expand their skills in the medical-health field. The “Merit” loan is a loan that every student residing in...Read More