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Il Ministro della Salute Livia Turco ha firmato oggi il decreto di nomina del nuovo Consiglio Superiore di Sanità che sarà insediato ufficialmente il prossimo 23 novembre e resterà in carica per un triennio.
Ministero della Salute (General medicine) - Wed, 8 November 2006
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A decision by the Italian Constitutional Court last week has provoked debate in Italy about the restrictive law on assisted reproduction, which was approved in 2004. The law limits in vitro fertilisation procedures to sterile couples and bans pre-implantation diagnosis and embryo freezing except in exceptional circumstances.
British Medical Journal (General medicine) - Fri, 3 November 2006
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Since obesity surgery is gaining ground more and more, it is necessary to verify what are in reality its complications, which could have been up to now underestimated.
MedNews (General medicine) - Fri, 3 November 2006
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Un Accordo Stato-Regioni per disciplinare il periodo transitorio, un provvedimento anche urgente per ridefinire i ruoli di ciascun protagonista all’interno di un disegno unitario, senza escludere una proroga della fase sperimentale. Queste le proposte del Ministro della Salute Livia Turco sul futuro del programma nazionale di Educazione continua in medicina, contenute in una lettera al coordinatore degli assessori regionali alla sanità e assessore al Diritto alla salute della Toscana Enrico Rossi.
Ministero della Salute (General medicine) - Fri, 3 November 2006
http://www.ministerosalute.it
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On 15 November, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners will officially launch the first ever International Medical Products Anti-counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) and unveil the global plan to combat counterfeit medical products.
World Health Organization (General medicine) - Thu, 2 November 2006
http://www.who.int
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This month the European Commission must decide whether to adopt a strategy to deal with the adverse health consequences of alcohol. The strategy has been awaited eagerly by Europe's public health community since it was first mooted five years ago, but it could fall at the last hurdle.
British Medical Journal (General medicine) - Mon, 30 October 2006
http://www.bmjjournals.com
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This article in the Medical Education series describes the problems with and success in trying to teach one of the core values of medicine, professionalism.
New England Journal of Medicine (General medicine) - Thu, 26 October 2006
http://www.nejm.org
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New guidelines to improve the care and treatment for millions of women suffering from a hidden and distressing condition are launched today (25 October). The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health have published a clinical guideline on the best way to manage urinary incontinence (UI) in women.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (General medicine) - Wed, 25 October 2006
http://www.nice.org.uk
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A Milano sono stati diffusi dati sugli errori in medicina, che costerebbero all’Italia una strage: tra 14.000 e 50.000 decessi all’anno. La notizia merita alcune considerazioni, in attesa delle azioni promosse e promesse dal ministro Livia Turco.
Federazione Nazionale Ordini Medici Chirurghi ed Odontoiatri (General medicine) - Wed, 25 October 2006
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Many people are afflicted with rare illnesses of unknown cause, and finding a common link to such under-studied or “orphaned” diseases as Bardet-Biedl, Alstrom and Meckel-Gruber syndromes can significantly advance the search for causes and treatment. Now, the same Johns Hopkins research team that first identified flaws in the work of tiny, hair-like structures on the surface of cells called cilia as such a common link has compiled - and made available on the World Wide Web - a database of all genes known to contribute to cilia operations in the body.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (General medicine) - Mon, 23 October 2006
http://www.hopkinshospital.org