Turn off that night light! Light-at-night as a stressor for adolescents.

Light-at-night is known to produce a wide variety of behavioral outcomes including promoting anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, abnormal sociability, and learning and memory deficits. Unfortunately, we all live in a 24-h society where people are exposed to light-at-night or light pollution through night-shift work - the need for all-hours emergency services - as well as building and street-lights, making light-at-night exposure practically unavoidable. Additionally, the increase in screentime (tvs and smart devices) during the night also contributes to poorer sleep and behavioral impairments.

Healthcare Professional Communication on Sexual Health: A Report from the Italian Working Group on Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer.

Background: Sexual function is an important concern for adolescent and young adult (AYA) with cancer. The aim of this study was to explore the attitude of Italian health care professionals who deal with AYA patients with cancer toward sexual health communication.

Materials And Methods: A 11-question survey was developed by the AIOM (Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica) and AIEOP (Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica) AYA workgroup and sent to AIOM and AIEOP members.

Predictive values of symptoms for SARS-CoV-2 infection among primary care patients in Piedmont.

Objectives: to investigate the combinations of clinical features and symptoms that best predict the positive outcome of the SARS-CoV-2 swab in a primary care setting.

Design: prospective cohort study.

Setting And Participants: patients listed in the rosters of general practitioners volunteering for the study who reported flu-like symptoms and/or anosmia/ageusia between 01.

DICER1-associated malignancies mimicking germ cell neoplasms: Report of two cases and review of the literature.

DICER1 syndrome is characterized by a unique combination of features and a growing list of associated rare tumors. Traditionally, gonadal or extra-gonadal teratomas have not been considered part of this spectrum, with only rare DICER1-related teratoid neoplasms recently reported. Besides, their methylation profiles remain elusive.

Menstrual Disorders Related to Eating Disorders.

Eating Disorders (ED) are associated with multiple physical complications that strongly affect the physical health of these young and fragile patients and can also cause significant mortality, the highest among psychiatric pathologies. Among the various organic complications, albeit still little known, the gynecological implications, up to infertility, are very widespread. Both among adolescent and adult patients, gynecological symptoms can be very widespread and range from menstrual irregularities to amenorrhea, from vaginitis to ovarian polycystosis, up to complications during the gestational phase and in postpartum, in addition to the possible consequences on the unborn child.

A Novel Automated Calculation of Basal Cistern Effacement Status on Computed Tomographic Imaging in Traumatic Brain Injury.

Introduction To predict patient outcomes in traumatic brain injury (TBI) lesions, various scores have been proposed, which use objective assessments. These scores, however, rely on the observer's ability to determine them. This study presents a comprehensive, reproducible, and more anatomically stratified objective measurement of the degree of basal cistern effacement in brain computed tomographic (CT) scan images.

Validation of the Italian version of the EUROPEP instrument for patient evaluation of general practice care.

Objective: To describe the validity and reliability of the Italian version of the EUROPEP instrument for patient evaluation of general practice care.

Methods: A survey was performed among patients who visited a general practice (n=983), using the 23-item EUROPEP questionnaire. The scores are aggregated in two dimensions: "clinical behaviour" and "organization of care".