medicine

Mediastinal infections (jointly referred to as mediastinitis) are primarily related to surgery, perforation of the esophagus and infectious spread from adjacent regions, with incidence varying by clinical setting. Postoperative…

Heart transplant and Covid+ emergency: at the Bambino Gesù the first paediatric case, one of the first two cases ever authorised by the National Transplant Centre. The 15-year-old boy, who received a new heart, was treated with monoclonal…

Oncology and Telemedicine: "As many as 90% of Italian medical oncology departments did not have access to telemedicine platforms for remote patient care during the second phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. This technological gap was even more…

Christian Eriksen "was gone, he was practically dead. We performed life-saving first aid for cardiac arrest. How close were we to losing him? I don't know, but we brought him back. It all happened so quickly, I'm not a cardiologist: the…

A kidney tumour, extending all the way to the heart, was removed using an innovative technique never before tried in the world

"A new, more precise and safer ablation technique for nodal re-entry tachycardia, the most frequent of the various forms of tachycardia in children"

Persistent Leg drainage in a paediatric trauma patient: a 7-year-old male with a past medical history of asthma sustained multiple injuries in a motor vehicle accident including a left hip dislocation, left femur fracture, left radial…

Tuberculosis, a potentially widespread disease: Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, but less than 15 percent of infected…

Alzheimer's disease, US Fda approves Aduhelm: it consists of one intravenous injection per month that 'may help slow the cognitive decline of patients in the early stages of the neurodegenerative disease'.

World Orthoptic Day, 7 June is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the profession of Orthoptics and the importance of eye rehabilitation