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From the IMMEDIATE Project to New Health Apps: Interview with Giulia Candiani

An update on the European IMMEDIATE project, which explores the link between gut microbiota, inflammation, and stress in the context of digital health research. Giulia Candiani presents the apps developed by Zadig to support clinical research and data collection, as well as a clinical study focused on stress monitoring through wearable technology such as smartwatches. [...]

COP11 on tobacco: what will Italy say? We have written to Minister Schillaci

COP11 will tackle matters of critical importance for global tobacco control, including the accountability of the tobacco industry for the millions of deaths and the environmental damage linked to both the consumption and production of its products. Together with the Alliance for a Tobacco-Free Italy, Zadig has asked the Minister of Health to clarify the positions Italy intends to take on these issues. [...]

May 31 is “No Tobacco Day”: Manifesto of the Alliance for a Tobacco-Free Italy

Tobacco use - responsible for more than 70,000 deaths each year in Italy and over eight million worldwide - must be regarded as a genuine epidemic that demands every effective means of intervention. The Alliance for a Tobacco-Free Italy invites everyone to endorse its Manifesto, which outlines scientifically proven measures to combat smoking, and denounces the inertia of governments that has allowed the tobacco industry to expand its market with misleading and harmful products. [...]

Is Peace an Empty Territory?

For the first victims of the Gaza massacre - girls and boys - peace is even hard to imagine. The rhetoric of war is widespread and comes easily. Precisely for this reason, communication and education efforts must focus on building a “rhetoric of peace”: one made of words capable of describing it and envisioning it, words that are just as compelling and, above all, real. [...]

A “Disarmed and Disarming” Peace. How Can It Be Promoted? A Dialogue to Bring Forces Together

Working for peace is urgent, as the Pope’s very first words also made clear. On Tuesday, 13 May 2025, a meeting on how to promote a culture of peace was held in Rome and streamed live. The discussion was coordinated by Eva Benelli and introduced by Fiorella Leone. Participants included Maurizio Bonati, physician and essayist; Angelo Stefanini, volunteer physician with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund; and Claudio Tosi, trainer. [...]

European SIGHTSoHO Project: Over 100 Professionals Trained in the Second Round of Online Training

At the Live Closing Event on 30 April 2025, participants reviewed the eleven weeks of online training, which involved 102 inspectors, assessors and vigilance officers from across the European Union. The focus was on the new regulation on quality and safety in the application of substances of human origin (SoHO). [...]

Artificial Intelligence and CME Training: Work in Progress with AI-CHECK

Zadig’s research project AI-CHECK (Artificial Intelligence for CME Health E-learning Contents and Knowledge), currently unique of its kind, is assessing the potential and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) in the development of Continuing Medical Education (CME) training materials, with the aim of establishing guidance and best practices for its use. [...]

American Chaos: Standing Up for Health and Medicine

The journal The Lancet has published an editorial that offers a precise critique of Trump’s executive orders and, at the same time, calls on the medical and scientific communities to resist and to uphold a vision of health that is inclusive, equitable, and grounded in solidarity. We fully share this position. [...]

EU-MiCare Project on Migrants’ and Refugees’ Mental Health: The First Phase Is Complete, Ready to Move Forward

The EU-MiCare project focuses on the mental health needs of migrants and refugees. It aims to develop an advanced, specialised training programme for mental health professionals and field workers, including volunteers, operating in culturally diverse settings. With the objectives of the first phase now completed, the project is working to make its tools available to professionals supporting migrants and refugees. [...]

The European ORCHESTRA project comes to a close: a symphony of scientists against pandemics

The ORCHESTRA project, Connecting European Cohorts to Increase Common and Effective Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, has come to an end. It was a European initiative coordinated by the Infectious Diseases Unit of the University of Verona, bringing together scientists from 37 institutions across 14 countries with the aim of addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The final meeting was hosted in Verona on 7 and 8 October. [...]

EU-MiCare project: a meeting in Milan bringing Europe together for migrants’ mental health

Zadig’s Milan office hosted the Train the trainers event, a key milestone of the European EU-MiCare project dedicated to the mental health of migrants and refugees. [...]

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence for Health: WHO Guidelines

Zadig publishes the Italian edition of the WHO guidelines on ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health. A commitment to technological innovation that serves the health and well-being of all, with particular attention to the most vulnerable groups in society. [...]

Migrants: caring for their mental health

UNICEF has released the first results of a service that reached young refugees and migrants, providing personalised psychosocial and mental health support. The European EU-MiCare project, in whose consortium Zadig participates, also focuses on training on mental health issues affecting refugees and migrants. [...]