To achieve excellence in many fields, especially in healthcare, many factors must work synergically. For example, state-of-the-art equipment and facilities or extraordinary investments in research. These investments could be public or private, depending on the goal; it doesn’t matter. What matters is another factor that is often forgotten: people....

In the near future of healthcare, logistical efficiency could be impacted by the widespread and systematic use of drones, transforming the sky into a new distribution infrastructure. Imagining that a blood bag or a life-saving drug could travel several hundred meters above the ground and land with precision (with use cases ranging from islands to m...

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An artwork can help patients suffering from serious illnesses, such as cancer or degenerative diseases. It makes a patient feel better because it stimulates the same brain areas as seeing a loved one. Visiting exhibitions and events, listening to concerts, watching a movie, or attending a theater performance can slow down aging and the onset of hea...

In Italy, all citizens have access to the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN), which automatically covers citizens and legal foreign residents. This national health system is funded by taxes that all citizens pay into. This allows residents to receive mostly free primary care, inpatient care, and health screenings. In addition, other benefits such a...

Italian healthcare has a long history of great tradition: the School of Medicine in Salerno and the University of Padua are but two examples of history and excellence. Recently, it has evolved, and Italians have produced 6 Nobel prizes in medicine. Newsweek published its annual ranking of the 250 best hospitals in the world in 2025; 13 were Italian...

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According to a recent study, breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in Europe and Italy, with over 55,000 new diagnoses every year in our country alone. Thanks to advancements in diagnosis and therapies, the five-year survival rate has reached 88%, exceeding 90% in cases detected early.   However, there are still numerous ch...

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At the root of pancreatic cancer’s aggressiveness is a particular transformation that pancreatic cells undergo, making them capable, even in the early stages of the disease, of forming metastases and resisting therapy. This is what researchers from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, led by Giannicola Genovese, discovered in a study published...