BODY TEMPERATURE: THE VITAL PARAMETER NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED DURING BREASTFEEDING
The need for nutrition is not the primary need that is met in skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby. We can rather say that what is satisfied is the need for protection and care, no less important than the nutritional one. This is because the breastfeeding experience is one of the very first and instinctive […]
2017/745 extension: is it sufficient if manufacturers have already adopted all the strategies necessary to transition to the new regulation, or have they already begun the process of compliance with the new regulation?
On February 16, 2023, the European Parliament cast its favorable vote on the transitional provisions for medical devices and IVDs, as stated in the approved text, and available at the following link: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/infos-details.html?id=922&type=priorityInfo Despite the constant increase in the number of notified bodies designated in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2017/745, the overall capacity of the […]
Psychotherapy with the cancer patient: from personal experience to training in the field
February 4 marks World Cancer Day, World Cancer Control Day, promoted by the UICC – Union for International Cancer Control, and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). On the occasion of this day, I would like to report my thoughts about my training experience in psychotherapy with cancer patients. This experience originated within the […]
An Extortion Called Payback
Regions that have spent more on health care than planned (i.e., more than 4.4 percent of their total spending) can ask the companies they bought medical devices from to return to them an amount equal to 50 percent of the excess spending made. What do these companies have to do with the regions’ faulty health […]
MEMORIAL DAY
«How nice and good everyone would be if every night before going to sleep they thought back over the day’s events and determined precisely what they did right and what they did wrong. Involuntarily then every day you try to improve yourself and it is easy, over time, to get results. This remedy is within […]
How much information can DNA contain?
«DNA is like a computer program, but far, far more advanced than any other program ever created.» (Bill Gates) DNA is a long, filamentous molecule, curled up in the nucleus of cells. It contains the information needed for the construction of living beings, therefore a kind of manual, whose “chapters” are called chromosomes and […]
