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Bambino Gesù trials groundbreaking therapy in treating brain tumours in children.
Rome children's hospital Bambino Gesù has developed what could be a breakthrough in treating aggressive and currently inoperable brain tu...
Race for the Cure raises awareness and funds for breast cancer.
The Komen Race for the Cure returns to the capital this weekend after missing a year due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The 2021 edition will take place on t...
750,000 people in Italy sign petition to legalise euthanasia.
Right-to-die activists in Italy have secured more than 750,000 signatures in a petition calling for a referendum to decriminalise euthanasia.
The signatur...
Newsweek crowns Gemelli Hospital in Rome the best hospital in Italy and among the top 100 in the world
The Fondazione Policlinico universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs is the first in Italy to appear in the ranking of...
There is only a certainty in life: death. You might as well face it with a smile and a little irony.
The reality of death is a taboo that is rarely treated light-heartedly in western societies, resulting in the increa...
The oldest pharmacy in Rome dates to the 16th century.
Considered Rome's oldest pharmacy, the Spezieria di S. Maria della Scala is located on the first floor of the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in the Trastevere...
First time in the world that a piano enters the operating room.
A 10-year-old boy underwent major surgery to the backdrop of a piano played live during the operation at the Salesi hospital in the Italian city of Ancona...
Italian police drove at 230 km an hour from northern Italy to Rome on a life-saving mission.
Italy's state police drove a specially-equipped Lamborghini Huracan from Padua to Rome to transport a kidney to a patient in t...
Blood donation appeal from Lazio Region as people prepare to go on summer holidays.
The Lazio Region, which includes Rome, has launched an appeal for people to donate blood before they go on vacation.
"It is a gestur...
Doctors in Italy make medical history.
Two female conjoined twins were separated by surgeons at Rome's Bambino Gesù children's hospital last month, in the first such case in Italy and possibly the world, news agency ANS...
Operation in Naples was first of its kind in Italy.
A young girl in Naples has recovered her hearing thanks to complex surgery involving an implant of a middle ear temporal bone created using 3D-printing technology....
Italian woman prepares olive ascolane during operation to remove brain tumour.
A 60-year-old Italian woman prepared stuffed olives while having an operation to remove a brain tumour at an Ancona hospital on 9 June, repo...
Pope pays tribute to nurses on International Nurses Day on 12 May.
Nurses are "among the saints next door", Pope Francis said in a message for the International Nurses Day on 12 May.
Describing them as the "guardians...
Italians take to their balconies at midday to honour their doctors, nurses and healthcare workers battling the country's Coronavirus emergency.
Italy's impromptu singalongs are making world headlines as quarantined Ital...
The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wrote on Twitter praising Italy's efforts to stop the coronavirus epidemic in the Country.
His quote was later retweeted by the Italia...
First positive Coronavirus case in Vatican City.
The Vatican announced on 6 March that a patient being treated by its health services has tested positive for Coronavirus.
The discovery was made on 5 March, according to...
Business as usual in Rome and Lazio region.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi and Lazio Region president Nicola Zingaretti have both underlined the fact that there is no Coronavirus emergency in the capital or in the Lazio regi...
Bar at Trevi Fountain: No entry for Chinese visitors.A bar near the Trevi Fountain in Rome is causing controversy after placing a sign on its door forbidding the entry of people coming from China, following two confirmed...
Sicilian Region to cover costs of medical cannabis use.
The cost of prescriptions for medical cannabis for patients in Sicily will now be covered by regional authorities, following a decree signed by Sicilian health chi...
Principals say Rome schools may have to close for health reasons.
Doctors say there is "no time to lose" regarding the escalating rubbish crisis in Rome, calling for "all those with responsibility" for the management of...
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