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A dangerous phenomenon for humanity is described. Through a joint analysis of data from satellites in orbit around the Earth and from the health statistics source EUROSTAT, it became clear that, by some mechanism, the influx of positively charged particles with high energy, as registered by satellites in the Earth’s orbit, increases mortality on the planet’s surface. The increase in mortality is in a band of maximum risk in the Northern Hemisphere, parallel to the equator and bounded by the ...
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic represented the starting point for an internal debate on the structural weaknesses of Italy’s territorial healthcare system and the urgent need for long-awaited reforms. It provided a unique opportunity to reshape the Italian National Health System (NHS), shifting toward more localized care models and accelerating the adoption of digital health technologies. This article is based on an interview conducted by the author, Matteo Maria Cati, with Professor Pierpaolo Sileri, ...
Read MoreWe aim to show a little but precise picture of the primary visual area, V1, in the human brain showing as it is a gateway of our brain to the external world. 28 Calabrian male patients (age range 51–84 years; mean age, 73.2 ± 1.57 years) showing a mean disease duration of 4.4 ± 0.91 years (range 1.0–23 years) were analyzed. 28 controls matched for sex and age were enrolled. An ophthalmologist examined all patients and controls in order to rule out diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, senile ma...
Read MorePsychiatry uses several models to explain mental disorders: the psychosocial, organic, agnostic (atheoretical), and drug-like model. Two basic categories of suicide are described – balancing suicide, where the motivation for suicidal behaviour stems from reality, and pathological suicide, which is essentially caused by psychopathology [1]. Pathological suicide is the primary focus of medical studies and the opinions differ, based on parallel existence of several models explaining mental disord...
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