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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. [...]

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. [...]

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). [...]

Webinar: Where Is the World Health Organization Headed — and Where Could It Go?

Following the mixed reactions sparked by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Eva Benelli discusses the WHO model as a whole with three experts—Maurizio Bonati, Marco Martuzzi, and Rodolfo Saracci—examining its future prospects and the possible transformations required by changing geopolitical conditions. [...]

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. [...]

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). [...]

Fatherhood and caregiving

Fathers who take care of their sons and daughters from the very first moments after birth, in a concrete and empathetic way: these are the cornerstones of the European 4E-PARENT project. [...]

Gli esami di laboratorio in gravidanza

Quale evoluzione hanno avuto le leggi per la tutela della gravidanza? Quali sono le linee guida delle società scientifiche? Come si definisce una gravidanza a basso rischio? [...]

UPO Biobank. The biobank of the University of Eastern Piedmont

The UPO Biobank is based on an inclusive and participatory model of the scientific community. [...]