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Una gavetta, un semplice contenitore di latta per il rancio dei soldati, ha permesso di fare riemergere la storia di un militare italoamericano che ha preso parte all’avanzata statunitense lungo la nostra penisola durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Merito di un giovane della Val del Riso (Bergamo), Giulio Borlini, che si è impegnato nel cercare di...

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What started out as a simple game between a father and son turned into a Christmas surprise of a lifetime from Italian supercar maker Lamborghini for a family from Erie, Colorado. Sterling Backus, 54, and his 12-year-old son Xander were playing the racing simulation video game "Forza Horizon 3" one day when Xander asked his father if they could bui...

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A 35-year-old Italian musician played guitar and tambourine while being operated on to remove a brain tumour in Turin Friday. The so-called 'asleep-awake' technique was used at the northwestern city's Molinette Hospital. This enables surgeons to better monitor brain function during the operation. In this way, the risk of brain damage is reduced to...

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A five-year-old girl suffering from a rare form of scoliosis has been cured with magnets in a first for Italy. The girl, who weighed just 11 kg (24 pounds, or one stone 10 pounds), presented with a form of the disease that had never been diagnosed before. She was operated on at Turin's Regina Margherita Hospital. For the first time in such a case,...

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L’esoscheletro leggero promuove l'indipendenza nella vita quotidiana attraverso la compensazione della perdita delle capacità di presa o l’incremento delle abilità in contesti professionali peculiari. Si chiama Sixto ed è il primo prodotto progettato e sviluppato da Existo, startup innovativa che produce tecnologie wearable per potenziare le capaci...

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"We are very happy with this result achieved for the first time in Italy thanks to which we have treated two small patients with an innovative therapy that was born in Naples 12 years ago in collaboration with the Telethon Foundation and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia" tells Francesca Simonelli, director of the Eye Clinic of the Luigi Vanv...

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The doctors of the Gaslini pediatric hospital in Genoa reconstructed the heart of a 21-month-old girl from Northern Italy suffering from a serious malformation from birth that in other hospitals had been considered incorrigible. The possibility of a double heart-lung transplant was also rejected. Congenital heart disease was corrected, the girl was...

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The 14th Conference of the Italian Researchers in the World, inaugurated at Miami Dade College in Florida, was held in order to emphasize and highlight the work of the Italian researchers in the United States who operate in the area of science, technology, medicine, and humanities. The annual event of the Comitato Tricolore per gli Italiani nel Mon...

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The In Her Shoes Foundation presented public health nutritionist Carl Amendola D’Anca with its 2019 Women Who Change the World Leadership Award. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Chicago Medical School, D’Anca has dedicated herself to “raising awareness, inspiring change and improving the health of the nation” in response to the gro...

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This month, Emanuela Barzi, a Fermilab senior scientist and Ohio State University adjunct professor and graduate faculty, was elected as a member of two committees of the American Physical Society: the Council Steering Committee and the Committee on Committees. She will begin her two- and three-year terms, respectively, on Jan. 1, 2020. The APS Cou...

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