Premenstrual syndrome, the most frequent disorders (and remedies)
The ancients called it moon syndrome, today we use the term premenstrual syndrome. This condition, often considered a feminine whim, cause of great inconvenience for ...
Category: Health
Antonella Viola: the single dose of vaccine? For now it’s just a bet. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past
There is nothing more frustrating than observing the repetition of mistakes, always the same as themselves. And yet, one year after the start of the ...
The bulletin: in Italy 18,916 new cases and 280 deaths. The positivity rate down slightly to 5.8%
I’m 18.916 the new cases of coronavirus in Italy (yesterday they were +20.499, here the bulletin). It goes up like this at least 2,907,825 the ...
Falls and illnesses: in this way the frail (and distant) elderly are safe
“You want to know what the lesson an elderly patient once gave me: “Doctor, but don’t you know that we old men die of fall?”. ...
Covid, Italy trains in Africa to help doctors manage the sick
Italy, the first Western country to be hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, reaches out to Africa to share experience in patient management and give ...
Now that we have the vaccines, what summer will be next?
The new Dpcm, the first of the Draghi era, will be in force from 6 March to 6 April: a month of very few reopening ...
Should those with subclinical hypothyroidism use levothyroxine during pregnancy?
I suffer from subclinical hypothyroidism and am now pregnant. Could it be helpful for me to take levothyroxine? He answers Alfredo Pontecorvi, Director of the ...
The new cases return to above 20 thousand, it had not happened since January 6. Positive rate 6.3%
I’m 20,499 new cases of coronavirus in Italy (yesterday they were +19,889, here the bulletin). It goes up like this at least 2,888,923 the number ...
Covid, how are variant vaccines updated? Doubts about those with viral vectors
The Food and Drug Administration, the American drug regulator, said the pharmaceutical companies they will not have to conduct lengthy clinical trials to test modified ...
Covid, a new variant widespread in New York (in addition to the Californian)
A new variant of the coronavirus with a mutation that could weaken the effectiveness of vaccines is spreading rapidly in New York City. As reported ...