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Over the past twenty years, the worldwide increase in cases of pleural empyema and complicated pneumonia by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children has attracted much epidemiological and clinical attention.1 In fact, particularly invasive and/or pathogenic serotypes have emerged – especially serotypes...

EUROmediCAT – “Safety of medication use in pregnancy”, a project of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technical Development funded by the European Union in the period 2011-2015, experimented integrating “traditional” registers for congenital anomalies with other already existing...

Paediatricians have always dedicated great attention and several diagnostic-therapeutic tools in order to tackle the gastroesophageal reflux, especially in early childhood. The most recent literature has scaled down the problem, attributing the gastroesophageal reflux to its paraphysiological...

Migraine is a very common ailment in the reproductive age groups, with a peak prevalence of 25% between the 30th and 40th years.1 Generally, the symptoms of migraine improve during pregnancy, and return about a month after the birth. During the breastfeeding period, environmental factors, like a...