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Learning should always be positive and fruitful and when it comes to educating your children, it is even more important. We cannot deny the fact that today’s children spend more than the required time on screen. Despite the valiant efforts of the parents to keep them away from mobile phones and other electronic gadgets, they are always fascinated by them. Schools are also handing over iPads and such devices for learning and thus, the craze...

Cystic Fibrosis is the most common life-threating autosomal inherited disease in Europe incidence varying between 1:1.800 (Slovakia) and 1:25.000 (Finland) new-borns. Currently over 35.000 cases of CF are registered in Europe. Data projections indicate that in Italy 1 out of 2.500-3.000 newborns has CF (200 new cases pro year).   A good nutritional status can always contribute to the general wellbeing of children, but in the case of children with chronic diseases, such as cystic...

When Lydia Yarlott arrived at a large London hospital for her first day as a junior doctor she was ‘stunned’ to be added to a WhatsApp group. ‘That’s literally how you organise tasks, how you manage workflow and how you communicate,’ she marvels. Bearing in mind that the app is anything but secure, and that Snapchat, too, is being used to exchange patient scans, it’s hard not to be very concerned by the state of clinical communication. Instead of waiting for the powers that be to fix the broken system, Lydia, her...