pediatrics

Guillain-Barré syndrome and Covid: over the past few days it has been reported that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine may have triggered the rare Guillain-Barré syndrome, a degeneration of the myelin sheaths lining nerve fibres,…

Epiphysiolysis: the pathology whereby the femoral head tends to slide along the neck due to mal-positioning, generating a deformity that over time leads to degenerative changes in the hip, will be the main topic at the XXIII Congress of the…

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…

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

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT is a treatment designed by Marsha Linehan in the 1970s for the treatment of borderline personality disorder

The syncytial virus in newborns is the main cause of bronchiolitis. Anti-Covid measures have neutralised it, but this absence could trigger a more serious epidemic than previous ones

Children with obstructive sleep apnea who don't outgrow it by adolescence have nearly three times the risk of high blood pressure as teens compared to those without the breathing issue, a new long-term study shows

New stem cells in viral infections: a 'shortcut' for the immune system to more rapidly supply the body with the necessary defences (natural killer cells) to fight viruses and other pathogens.