Dr. Paolo Casoni has been a guest on the Rai1 show “Buono a sapersi”, conducted by Elisa Isoardi.

Varicose disease of the lower limbs has always been considered a pathology of secondary interest: in fact, it does not cause imminent dangers for the life of patients, except in exceptional cases. This is valid today as in the past, despite the diagnostic and therapeutic advances that have been seen in recent years. However, it […]

A new surgical technique was developed in Parma for the treatment of varicose veins in the lower limbs. In the cases of insufficiency of the great saphenous vein, the classic surgical treatment involves stripping with a crossectomy (which consists in cutting the groin) to abolish the reflux which from the femoral vein goes into saphenous […]

The concept of herd immunity – the principle by which a high percentage of vaccinates prevents infectious agents from circulating and triggering epidemics – we have written several times. But as often happens, the images are more effective than words: in this animation, the user of Reddit theotheredmund shows, in a matter of seconds, because […]

From hospitals to the kitchen: antibiotic resistance can reach us even where you do not expect it. Between 5,000 and 7,000 deaths a year in hospital, says the SIMIT (Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases) patients with compromised immune systems who lose their lives not for the pathology for which they were hospitalized, but because […]