Health
From 2 April only digital thermometers are available for sale in Italy. Thermometers containing mercury have now been banned, in line with a 2006 European Union directive to reduce the use and spread of the highly toxic...
Emergency rooms in Lazio are critically overcrowded, says emergency health professionals
According to the annual report from the Italian health ministry over 51,000 people in Italy have been diagnosed with AIDS since the virus was first discovered in 1981. Of these 35,000 have died. The health ministry estim...
One of the main hospital accident and emergency departments in the historic centre of Rome closed to the public on 6 October.
Just off the central Via del Corso and very close to Piazza del Popolo, the S. Giacomo A and...
Single male immigrants who are newly arrived in Italy, speak little Italian and have a low level of education are most at risk of being infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study carried out by the...
The Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital is offering a special 24-hour tourist medical service. The tourist department is staffed by one medical doctor and two nurses, and is meant especially for patients with low-severity d...
The number of people taking antipsychotic drugs in Lazio almost doubled between 2000 and 2006, a report by health watchdog Osservasalute has revealed. In 2006, 6.01 out of every 1,000 people in the region were on prescri...
Rome city council has begun distributing special cards allowing residents to indicate whether or not they wish to donate their organs for transplant in the event of their death. The card
Bullying in Italian schools has risen by 6 per cent in the last two years, according to a new study by the Italian Pediatric Society. Almost three quarters of the 1,200 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 14 polled said...
Around 200 cases of the mosquito-born tropical virus chikungunya have been reported in the Ravenna area of northern Italy
Months long investigations and inspections carried out at Rome
Free anonymous HIV tests will be available in two of the capital
Cocaine use has more than doubled in Italy between 2001-2005, according to a ministry of the interior report, making it the European country with the third highest cocaine usage after Great Britain and Spain.
The main...
According to a study issued by the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, 45 per cent of young people in Italy between the ages of 30 and 34 still live with their parents.
One child in four is born to a mother over 34,...
The Italian State Monopoly controlling the sale of cigarettes has issued instructions that all automatic machines distributing cigarettes must be equipped with a system for reading identity documents in order to prevent...
The number of Italians who approve of euthanasia is rising, according to the 40th annual report on the social situation of Italy by Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), published at the beginning of December. Now...
Young people between the ages of 18-25 years have a 50 per cent more chance of suffering non-lethal injuries on the job than other age groups, the Italian bureau of statistics has revealed.
The sectors most at risk in t...
Drawing on the mortality figures for 2003, ISTAT has issued a report which will cause the directors of INPS, Italys state pension organization, many a sleepless night, with the Italian male enjoying an average life span...
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Aperitif at the organic restaurant
Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
