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Using AI in Medicine: the Slow AI Guidelines

The Slow AI Decalogue, developed by a working group led by Zadig, which initiated the project, together with Slow Medicine, aims to provide a guiding framework for both the public and healthcare professionals, helping to prevent the inappropriate use of artificial intelligence in medicine. [...]

Sign for Cuba: An Open Letter to the Italian Government

A group of scientific journals, including Scienza in rete, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Health Minister Orazio Schillaci, requesting that an Italian commission of health experts be sent to Cuba to collect data and information on the health status of the Cuban population, access to care, and the availability of medicines and medical devices, to draft an independent technical report, and to plan targeted, essential, and priority aid interventions [...]

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. [...]

EU-MiCare recognised as a “Good Practice Project”

The EU-MiCare project has received a highly positive evaluation and has been recognised as a Good Practice Project on the Erasmus platform. The project is dedicated to professionals and volunteers working to support the mental wellbeing of migrants and refugees. [...]

Migration and Mental Health: The EU-MiCare Project Supports Professionals and Volunteers

The national closing event of EU-MiCare, a three-year EU-funded project under the Erasmus+ programme, took place in Milan and provided an opportunity for meaningful exchange and discussion. The project is dedicated to professionals and volunteers working to support the mental well-being of migrants and refugees. [...]

Gender: a Theory That Does Not Exist

The approval of the Lega amendment excluding lower-secondary students from sexual and affective education programmes disregards the recommendations of international agencies and scientific evidence can cause harm—especially to girls and boys at perhaps the most delicate stage of their lives. [...]

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. [...]

Fathers from the very beginning: the experience of the 4e-parent European project

The European 4e-parent project, for which Zadig was responsible for all communication and training activities, focused on the early and active involvement of fathers in the care of children. The project generated a substantial body of information and shared experiences, produced videos and podcasts, built a network among the various professional figures involved in different aspects of parenthood, and carried out an advocacy initiative in connection with the discussion of the 2025 national budget law. [...]

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. [...]

1 in 30, and you may not know it: having a child with cystic fibrosis

or the “1 in 30-and you don’t know it” campaign, developed in collaboration with the Fondazione per la Ricerca sulla Fibrosi Cistica, ZADiG produced a series of videos in which parents of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis - one of the most common serious genetic diseases, still without a definitive cure - share first-hand accounts of the impact of the condition on their lives. [...]

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. [...]

The new app developed for IMMEDIATE facilitates clinical studies and remote follow-up.

Zadig presents its new app supporting clinical research and remote patient monitoring, developed for the European IMMEDIATE project. [...]

European SIGHTSoHO project: the first round of online training has been completed

During the Live Closing Event held on 1 March, the first eleven weeks of training were reviewed. The programme involved 78 participants—inspectors, assessors and vigilance officers—from several European Union countries. The focus was on the new regulation on quality and safety in the application of substances of human origin (SoHO). [...]

AI-CHECK: testing the potential of AI in training healthcare professionals

AI-CHECK, a research project by Zadig, aims to assess the potential and limitations of using AI in training courses for healthcare professionals, with the goal of defining guidance and best practices for this application. Initial results suggest that AI cannot operate independently, but can only support certain phases of the process. [...]