From 1 January 2008 entered into force new national plan for immunization in Italy cover the years 2008-2010. By the end of last year we had news of the process that the new rules would have had. Now we are.
Greek Donato, director general of the Department of Prevention and Communication Ministry of Health and director [...]

Currently no treatment exists decisive, but the progress of the so-called palliative care has helped to lengthen the life expectancy of people with Duchenne’s syndrome and also over thirty years. By taking steroids can improve motor skills and reduce the feeling of fatigue, while heart disease can be treated in the early days, through the [...]

And ‘these days (BBC News, 5 January 2008) reported that by March will be available in Italian hospitals, the abortion pill RU486 (mifepristone). The request for authorization of the sale was made in November 2007 from the ‘Italian Drug Agency, but it will take four months for the placing on the market.
Silvio Garattini, director of [...]

The application of genetic technology in agriculture has attracted enormous interest because it promises to lower
production costs and reduce the use of pesticides.
GMOs are the most cultivated soybean, corn, rice, tobacco, cotton, rapeseed, potatoes, tomatoes, and squash. GMOs are allowed in Canada and Japan. The vast majority of the crops (above 90%) are located in [...]

If there is a risk of transmission of serious genetic diseases is possible to test embryos to be implanted in an artificial insemination. An order of the court in Florence on 22 December, with the value of a ruling, acknowledged the arguments of the appeal of a Milan pair against the center that has refused [...]