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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. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]