By: António Campos, ophthalmologist With regard to World Sight Day, celebrated on October 10th, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that 80% of the causes of visual impairment are preventable or can be treated by appropriate prevention methods. Given the aging of the population, one...
We had the pleasure of attending the 14th ECET Congress - European Council of Estomotherapists in Rome, which took place from 23 to 26 June 2019. Welland's marketing, sales and development teams travelled to Italy to participate in the ECET Congress and were with their distribution partners from Portugal,...
By: Luís Correia, president of the Intestinal Inflammatory Disease Study Group (GEDII) https://www.vitalhealth.pt/entrevistas/tag/Doen%C3%A7a%20Inflamat%C3%B3ria%20do%20Intestino.html https://www.vitalhealth.pt/entrevistas/tag/doen%C3%A7a%20de%20Crohn.html ...
14th Conference of the European Council of Enterostomal Therapists The 2019 Biennial Meeting of the European Council of Enterostomal Therapy (ECET), will take place on the 23-26 of June 2019 in Rome, Italy. The European Council of Enterostomal Therapy (ECET) is a professional nursing society, which supports specialized nurses all over Europe with educational standards,...
Infarmed publishes new analysis on oral anticoagulants. Anticoagulant medications are used in the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic diseases. For years, vitamin K antagonists and heparins were the only anticoagulants used to treat these conditions. Since 2010, new oral anticoagulants (NACOs) have been available in the reimbursed...
NTC EXPLORES A NEW PARADIGMA IN POST CATARACT SURGERY Milan, September 24, 2018 – NTC, the Italian pharmaceutical company, presented at the ESCRS (European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons) Congress of Vienna the protocol of Leader7, one of the largest clinical trials in ophthalmology at...
On September 22 nd, during the ESCRS Congress in Wien, NTC organizes a Satellite Symposium: "Rationalization of prescriptive behaviours in ophthalmology for the containment of antibiotic resistance". Antibiotic resistance and the appropriate use of antibiotics in ophthalmology are becoming more and more relevant topics during last...
Reliable traceability, the fight against counterfeiting, compliance with European regulations; for Jean-Marc Bobée, director of the industrial anti-counterfeiting strategy with Sanofi and a member of the EFPIA* working group on drug codification and identification in Europe, the serialisation of prescription drugs is inevitable. Towards European harmonisation. By...