Rapid Increase in Cancer Diagnoses Among Young Adults in Florida: Causes, Statistics, and Implications

Diagnosis rates for all types of cancer increased 15 percent in people in their 20s and 30s between 2010 and 2020 — three times faster than the national average, data from the Florida Cancer Connect Collaborative shows. Rates have risen faster in women than in men, according to doctors who warn that patients are diagnosed … Read more

The Importance of Vaccination and Prevention in Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from Pietro Dattolo, President of the Order of Doctors and Dentists of Florence

The Importance of Vaccination and Prevention in Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from Pietro Dattolo, President of the Order of Doctors and Dentists of Florence

Florence, 15 September 2023 – “The Covid no longer has those lethality characteristics and severity in the evolution of the disease that we had become accustomed to seeing for two years. There cautionamong the most fragile and elderly categories, however, it remains necessary. Attention to one’s health which turns into the simple gesture of getting … Read more

Resurgence of Measles Cases in Romania: Vaccination and Parental Responsibility

Resurgence of Measles Cases in Romania: Vaccination and Parental Responsibility

The manager of the “Victor Babeş” Infectious Diseases Hospital in the capital, Dr. Simin Aysel Florescu, explained to News.ro that more and more children with measles are presenting themselves at the medical unit, gradually reaching the situation before the pandemic, with a very large number of cases. Measles is a disease that can cause severe, … Read more

«Relationships with the Region cracked, towards the strike»

VENEZIA – «Long months of silence and interrupted dialogue. The absence of a clear primary care reform project for the Veneto, including resources. A few sporadic meetings, apparently more to buy time than to really address the critical issues. Time and patience which, however, have now run out. For this, with great bitterness, the Fimmg … Read more

Two million Italians without a general practitioner, pressing for tenders. What is going on

In this way, he underlines, “almost 3,000 new doctors in training would be available, ready immediately to take on conventional tasks during the course as envisaged by job training”. Indeed, there are currently around 40,000 general practitioners on duty but a few thousand would be missing. The new tender, Schembri points out, “with an additional … Read more

Crazed patient unhinges the door, enters the clinic and attacks two doctors

NOVENTA DI PIAVE – He unhinges the door, throws himself into the clinic and attacks two family doctors. It happened last March 25 in Noventa di Piave and the Fimmg denounces yet another fact of violence against health personnel. “We can no longer accept that similar acts of violence continue to repeat themselves in our … Read more

Emergency doctor: “In Ukraine surgeons able to treat war wounds. And to operate under bombs”

“In Ukraine there is a need for doctors who know how to manage gunshot wounds, specialists in war medicine. There is a need for surgeons and orthopedists”. Like this Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, recently launched an appeal to colleagues. Because the war is triggering … Read more

A meeting has been convened with representatives of general practitioners

“We are living in a very delicate moment. And in this phase the work done by general practitioners is indispensable “. Thus the Covid Catania emergency commissioner, Pino Liberti, who on Monday 10 January will participate in an urgent meeting convened by the head of the territorial activities department with the institutional representatives of general … Read more