Back pain: mistakes to avoid (which we all do)
These are always impressive numbers, those of back pain: it is known, for example, that 80 percent of us will suffer from it sooner or ...
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Cancer after 70, everything you need to know
Only 10% of cancers affect people under 49 years oldwhile 39% concerns i 50-69 years old and the remaining 51% hits over seventy. Overall sand ...
Why do some have mild symptoms and others get worse? The role of the “cytokine storm”
Because most people experience only mild symptoms or even no symptoms of Covid-19 while others become seriously ill still one of the great unsolved mysteries ...
Eli Lilly announces: “Our monoclonal antibodies reduce mortality and hospitalizations by 70%”
Eli Lilly, an American pharmaceutical company that is studying a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies, has made public in a note the phase 3 results of ...
Who are the “patients with symptoms” and why they risk saturating hospitals
Among the numbers of the epidemic, there is one that is particularly worrying in this phase of the second wave hospitalized with symptoms. These are ...
What is “viral load”, the number that reveals how contagious one is
Viral load is rising to very high levels, il number of copies of the genetic material of the new coronavirus present in one milliliter of ...
Ilaria Capua: “Covid, here are the (very few) rules to protect us”
The contagion curve is vertical: almost 75,000 positives in Italy, 5,700 only yesterday. Ilaria Capua, director of One Health Center of Excellence at the University ...
The mysterious Kawasaki-like linked to the coronavirus can also affect adults
Months after the discovery of a pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a condition linked to Covid that in children shows symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease, ...
Covid: delirium could be the “key” symptom in frail elderly people
The delirium, or rather the mental confusion, could be a characteristic symptom of Covid-19 in frail elderly. Investigate this possibility a study of King’s College ...
Lung and breast: a new treatment curbs the most aggressive tumors
It decreases the risk of death and increases survival for patients suffering from two particularly aggressive cancers: microcytoma, or small cell lung cancer, and triple ...