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  Iss 3 february 2022 - Pacemaker (PM) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) are equipped with a magnetic sensor activated by external application of magnets to easily manage some functions of these devices. If activated inadvertently or outside a controlled environment and without the supervision of clinical personnel, this magnetic mode introduces a potential risk. In reality, the possibility of a static magnetic field affecting a PM or ICD is remote. However, the presence of the magnet in the iPhone 12 made the possibility of inadvertently activating the magnetic switch ...

Suligoi: taking the test ensures early access to antiretroviral therapies and increases life expectancy   In 2020, 1,303 newly-diagnosed HIV infections were reported, even less than the cases recorded over the past decade (link to the news).   Barbara Suligoi, Director of the ISS National AIDS Unit, said that "Compared to 2019, the number of new HIV diagnoses in 2020 has almost halved, and this is most likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions on movement and gatherings.”   The incidence observed in Italy was lower than the average incidence in...

The innate immune response stimulated by type-I interferon which is in turn secreted by plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) in the initial phase of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, plays a key role in preventing the progression of COVID-19.  A team of researchers (Università e Ospedale San Raffaele of Milan, Policlinico di Tor Vergata, University of Padua, the Associazione Fitness Metabolica (Metabolic Fitness Association) coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità -ISS (Italian National Institute of Health), has placed under the magnifying glass precisely the mechanism of innate immune resp...

Iss 21 may 2021 -  “No Country will be safe until all Countries are”. This is the key message contained in the final report by the panel of 26 scientists set up by the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in his capacity as President of the G20, in view of tomorrow’s Global Health Summit, published on the EU Commission’s website. The experts sitting on the Global Health Summit Scientific Expert Panel, co-chaired by Peter Piot, ‘special adviser’ of President Von der Leyen and by the President of the ISS, Silvio Brusaferro, draft...

The results of the ISS-coordinated Passi e Passi d’Argento surveys conducted from March to December 2020 Almost one Italian out of four (23% of adults) states having lived the experience of the pandemic in an emotionally painful way. The group mainly includes people who had a direct experience with the pandemic because of a Covid-19 death in the family or among the closest circle of friends or because they suffered an economic loss. Furthermore, sedentariness grows among the elderly over 65 in addition to a moderate consumption of alcohol among women. This is revealed by the data from the PAS...

On 1 December, the toll-free number 800 861061 will be operating from 10 AM to 6 PM 30 november 2021 - They are mainly men (83.6%), residing in Northern and Central Italy, with an average of 35 years of age. This is the picture of the average user who called the ISS’s AIDS and STIs toll-free number in 2021, for a total of 6,219 telephone calls.  The questions posed to the experts mainly concerned doubts on heterosexual intercourse with occasional partners, the transmission of HIV and STIs (32.4%), and the testing procedure for these infections (28.0%). One third of the questions asked b...

ISS, 15 dicembre 2021 Utilizzare i dati per monitorare le azioni intraprese è una tematica prioritaria nel quadro dell’attuale pandemia di Covid-19. È questo il tema del  2nd Covid-19 Action Taken Review Workshop :MONITORING COVID 19 PANDEMIC: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND SEQUENCING DATA for DECISION-MAKING, organizzato dall’ISS,  che si tiene il 16 Dicembre dalle 11:00 alle 13:30,  durante il quale ricercatori italiani condivideranno la loro esperienza con i paesi della Rete MediLabSecure (Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia Erzegovina, Burkina Faso, Egitto, Georgia, Giordania, Kosovo , ...

ISS, 15 dicembre 2021 - Cure personalizzate e più efficaci per migliorare la qualità di vita dei pazienti e aumentarne l’aspettativa, questa l’urgenza di chi convive con la fibrosi cistica. Uno studio congiunto tra

Iss 13 dicembre 2021 -  Attrarre giovani ricercatori e ricercatrici, italiani e stranieri, per portare avanti un progetto di ricerca della durata di 30 mesi. E’ la richiesta che l’Istituto Superiore di Sanità ha appena lanciato attraverso la pubblicazione del bando di ricerca “startingGrant”.  Il bando è rivolto a giovani che non abbiano compiuto 33 anni alla data di scadenza del bando e in possesso del titolo di dottorato di ricerca o, nel caso di laureati in Medicina e Chirurgia, del titolo di specializzazione. Il bando consentirà di finanziare fino a un massimo di 4 progetti di ri...

Il Primo Dicembre, in occasione della Giornata Mondiale di lotta contro l’AIDS, il Telefono Verde AIDS e Infezioni Sessualmente Trasmesse – 800 861061 dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità amplia il suo consueto orario, pertanto gli esperti rispondono dalle 10.00 alle 18.00 e, nella fascia pomeridiana, è anche disponibile il consulente in materia legale. In questa giornata sono sempre disponibili l’indirizzo e-mail tvalis@iss.it dedicato esclusivamente alle persone sorde e il sito www.uniticontrolaids.it