Only 4 cases in the world, the first in Italy: Ylenia Mellaro, optician, born 36 years ago in Rome with a heart without a ventricle, becomes the mother of twins. The exceptional event happened in Rome thanks to the determination of the young woman and the joint work of the specialists from the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital – who have […]

Sitting for many hours a day increases the risk of mortality from all causes. The results of a 12-year study conducted on almost half a million people

In the digital work “RenaissanceDreams” (created for the Meet in Milan), the Turkish artist Refik Anadol fed thousands of open-source images of works of art and architecture from the Italian Renaissance, and literature texts from 1300 to an artificial intelligence and the 1600s: an immense dataset processed and revisited in real time by algorithms that create, in a fluid and […]

There’s no messing around with type 2 diabetes. According to statistics, in fact, one in three people develops a pathology called chronic kidney disease, which may require dialysis and even a kidney transplant. Life expectancy for these patients is reduced by up to 16 years. Something, however, can be done: new data, collected in over 50 Italian diabetes centers, confirm […]

Colorectal cancer screening could, in the future, do without stool testing. According to a study published in Nature Communicationa common and harmless bacterium capable of nesting in tumors that may be present can be modified in the laboratory to release a measurable marker in the urine and blood. Looking for new tests Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of […]

World Cancer Day is celebrated on February 4th with the slogan ‘Close the Care Gap’. This was discussed at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in a national conference to reduce social disparities. It emerged that a quarter of deaths in Italy are associated with low education, financial toxicity and healthcare migration. Financial difficulties affect 26% of patients. The first questionnaire […]

A new variant of Sars-Cov-2 makes its appearance on the international scene. It was discovered in South Africa by the same group of scientists who first detected Omicron, and has already been identified with the acronym Ba.2.87.1. It is a hypermutated variant: in fact it presents over 100 mutations, of which more than 30 in the Spike protein, the experts […]

Is the herpes zoster vaccine advisable for those who are not yet of the recommended age but suffer from certain pathologies (for example glaucoma), even if they are vaccinated against chickenpox? How effective is it? Is it possible that it doesn’t work for some people? Send your questions to [email protected] The herpes zoster vaccine is recommended not only for people […]

Kiwi has proven to be a powerful mood booster and new research from the University of Otago has shown just how fast its effects can be. In a study, published in British Journal of NutritionIn fact, researchers found that the fruit improved vitality and mood in just four days. “It’s nice – underlines Tamlin Conner, one of the authors of […]

Writing by hand involves greater brain connectivity than typing on a keyboard, so it is necessary to expose students to more activities that involve handwriting. This was revealed by a study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, published in Frontiers in Psychology. Writing by hand at school is increasingly rare As digital devices gradually replace pen and paper, […]