First-of-its-kind Italian school study finds high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure
... Most studies of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have been linked to heavy and/or binge drinking, especially in minority and poor populations. ... Popular thought contends that drinking in Western Europe is more moderate than it is in the U.S.... New findings indicate that drinking levels among some women in Italy are similar to those of high-risk drin...EMBO honours leading Italian and Russian science communicators
Professor Edoardo Boncinelli of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy is the winner of the 2005 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. Boncinelli receives the award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in science communication. Since 1994, the professor of biology and genetics, a founding figure in developmental biology, has published 18 popular science books on...West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Galileo Gallilei's and the oldest academy of science in the world....In 1603, four young men put their names to a document about the pursuit of science, and in so doing brought into being the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Galileo Galilei added his great name and fame to the Accademia in 1611, and the number of members increased steadily with the addition of foreign and Italian men of science, p...Season of birth influences age of menopause, say Italian researchers
Research by Italian experts on the menopause has found that that the month and the season in which a woman is born influence the age at which she reaches menopause.... ...A study of nearly 3,000 post-menopausal women showed that the earliest age of menopause was found in women born in March and the latest among those born in October. On average there was around 15 months' difference, with women b...Research published (Thursday 28 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1] , has found evidence that women with endometriosis[2] are at higher risk of having migraine....... A team from the University of Genoa in Italy studied 133 women with endometriosis and a control group of 166 women, and found that the prevalence of migraine was significantly higher amon...