Vaccine for teens

Pubblicato il 04/08/2012Read time: 1 min

Chris Mullin, a retired American basketball player, teams up with Vaccine for Teens to help educate parents and their teenager children about the need to get vaccinated. In a video recently released on Youtube, the NBA Hall of Famer and member of the 1992 Dream Team stressed the importance of vaccination as the best defence against serious and life-threatening diseases like influenza, pertussis and meningitis.

Vaccine for teens is national program realized in collaboration with the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), Sanofi Pasteur and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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di Michele Bellone

Influenza

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The Indi Gregory case: some questions for reflection

di Giovanni Boniolo

Pubblicato il 13/11/2023

"The 'Indi Gregory Case' encompasses various levels of reflection (medical, ethical, legal, and political) that are interconnected but often confused in media debates. The philosopher of science and bioethicist Giovanni Boniolo analyzes them through a series of questions, the answers to which may also help us in similar cases that may arise in the future. Image: Twilight, by Dilma Freddi.

Medicine

Ethics and science

There has been, and continues to be, much talk about the "Indi Gregory Case." Indi was an eight-month-old baby suffering from a severe, and so far fatal, rare disease. More specifically, Indi was affected by D,L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria: a genetic disease with autosomal recessive inheritance caused by defects in the SLC25A1 gene.