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The psychiatric department at Gemelli hospital in Rome has opened a new centre for sufferers of internet addiction disorder (IAD). The department already treats a range of dependencies from drugs and alcohol to gambling,...
Five cases of influenza A-H1N1, known as swine flu, have been confirmed in Italy since the beginning of May, three of which are in Rome.
All five cases regard people who have visited Mexico in the month of April. In ad...
The health ministry is urging Italians to stay calm in the face of an outbreak of swine influenza that has killed more than 150 people in Mexico and spread to Europe, with cases reported in Spain and Scotland.
While no...
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...
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