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We at Medici del Mondo are deeply concerned about the ongoing war in Ukraine. We are especially concerned about the increasing number of attacks on health facilities

Colon cancer and antibiotic: traditionally, colorectal cancer was a condition that mostly impacted older people. But it’s now the third leading cause of cancer deaths in young adults

"The news about the hospital in Mariupol occupied by Russian troops, about the staff and patients taken hostage and used as human shields fills us with sadness but also with indignation"

Hospital under attack: In the martyred Mariupol, also mentioned by Pope Francis in Sunday's Angelus, the Russians are allegedly the protagonists of a new sad page in this fratricidal war

CAR-T is an innovative therapy in the field of oncohaematology, which offers a chance to cure patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or lymphoblastic leukaemia who have relapsed after one or more conventional therapies

Experts are calling for a change to diagnostic criteria for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) based on a reanalysis of data from recent studies

Interventional radiology: different instruments are used to obtain images of certain areas of the body, useful for making diagnoses and performing guided therapeutic interventions

The AMBU is a 'self-expanding balloon' used by healthcare professionals and rescuers to support breathing, and is one of the devices used in first aid during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Mariupol Children's Hospital: under the rubble, children with their mothers, as well as those working in the paediatric clinic. In the courtyard separating the various pavilions, a crater several metres deep left by a Russian bomb explosion

Wrist cysts and hand cysts are benign neoformations. Wrist cysts arise from the wrist joint, while hand cysts arise from the sheaths of both the extensor and flexor tendons of the hand