You are reading issue 108 of «TuttoSalute»: for 108 weeks, every Tuesday, we have accompanied you on a journey into medicine and its variations. From the discoveries that make the news to the new treatments already available, up to the next scenarios, where reality and science fiction approach and project us into a new dimension.
This issue is the last in the series, but it is not a goodbye. It is a new beginning. As anticipated in recent days and as the editorial by director Massimo Giannini explained yesterday, “TuttoSalute” is transformed and widened: it becomes “Health”, a thematic container with the ambition to be the reference point for describing medicine of the 21st century.
For this initiative, the journalists and researchers who collaborate with «TuttoSalute» combine strength and skills – and their passion – with those of the signatures of «Repubblica,« Il Secolo XIX »and the galaxy of newspapers of the Gedi group. Thus, from today, the journey into medicine evolves. From site of each newspaper you will be able to access a universe of news and insights, while every 30 days, on newsstands, with newspapers, you will find the monthly of the same name, designed for a more relaxed reading. A paper product that debuts on September 24 and that – we hope – you will want to keep, full of guides and advice, following the golden rule that in terms of health you never know enough.
Whether it is digital or paper, the inspiring principle of “Health” is a mix of clarity and concreteness: medical knowledge is in constant metamorphosis and – as Covid demonstrates – we are dealing with a number of reasonable certainties and, rarely, with absolute certainties. Everything is constantly monitored and, if necessary, reviewed. Science works like this. It is the secret of its strength: being aware of it makes each of us stronger and allows us to better manage ourselves.
“Health” – as you understand – sees the light with a solid structure, but the beauty is that this path of information and dissemination opens up to realities that will soon change everything, daily life, the procedures of doctors and the logic of hospitals: from precision medicine, targeted on individual genetic characteristics, to nanomachines that will treat diseased tissues, from organs reproduced with 3D printers to repairs of the tilted pieces of DNA, up to empathic robots for assistance and Artificial Intelligence programs that will support specialists in diagnosis and treatment.
Present and future are intertwined. Apparently trivial questions about the next flu and others, only apparently visionary, about synthetic minds that will choose the appropriate therapy hybridize. To give you a taste of this approach the opportunity presents itself today. The event is called «Frontiere: il Festival di Salute»: it begins at the Auditorium-Parco della Musica in Rome with meetings and interviews that can be followed online and that will continue, in live streaming, for four days. You will have the opportunity to listen to researchers and specialists from Italy and beyond. Among them many number one in medicine and the Nobel Prize Jules Hoffmann, the immunologist who studies the complex relationships between organism and environment. If there is an expert who can guide us in the labyrinth of the pandemic it is this Frenchman, director of a famous institution, the CNRS. And you will find that the professor is optimistic. Recently he reassured public opinion with these words: “We are in a situation in which humanity has never been, but we have fantastic techniques. Humanity has never had them: it has known pandemics, but it did not have the tools we have today ».
If you ignite your curiosity, «Health» is ready to answer your questions and interact on social networks (on Instagram with @Salute_eu. To prevent and to heal).
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