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Source of Italy's legionella outbreak identified: don't worry, it's not the water

Source of Italy's legionella outbreak identified: don't worry, it's not the water

Legionella bacteria confirmed in pneumonia patients in northern Italy

Legionella bacteria confirmed in pneumonia patients in northern Italy

150 pneumonia cases spark health alert in north Italy

150 pneumonia cases spark health alert in north Italy

Italy does a U-turn on compulsory vaccine law... again

Italy does a U-turn on compulsory vaccine law... again

Italian filmmaker tours Ischia on boat made of plastic bottles to highlight waste issue

Italian filmmaker tours Ischia on boat made of plastic bottles to highlight waste issue

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Teaching association insists parents abide by current vaccination law

Immunity fears as Italy overturns mandatory vaccination law

Two newborn babies die of whooping cough in northern Italy

Three dead in Legionella outbreak near Milan

Catholic aid organization: Italy urgently needs more migrant carers for the elderly

Italian food industry outraged by WHO report that calls for warning labels on salty foods

Up to two thousand tonnes of microplastics estimated to be on Italy's beaches

Mandatory vaccinations: Italian parents will no longer need to provide doctor's note

Italian study of centenarians suggests human lifespan may not yet have peaked

The long road to legal abortion in Italy - and why many women are still denied it

Italy can't fly Alfie Evans to Rome for further care, court rules

Italy grants citizenship to terminally ill British boy Alfie Evans

Pope Francis makes fresh appeal for terminally-ill British toddler Alfie Evans

10-month-old baby’s death linked to measles

Italy issues presidential pardon for pot-growing pensioner

Italy sends unvaccinated children home from school after immunization deadline passes

Survey reveals 'health gap' between Italy's north and south

Meet the Italian doctor making house calls on horseback

Italian parents investigated after unvaccinated child catches tetanus

Rome mayor challenges compulsory vaccine law

Italy to fight Netherlands for EU medicines agency

Measles cases rise six-fold in Italy as populists pledge to scrap compulsory vaccines

Italy is in the grip of its worst flu season in 14 years

Italian populists promise to scrap compulsory vaccines

2017

An Italian nonna is now the oldest person in Europe

Italy approves 'living wills' to decide end-of-life care

Italy’s doctors go on strike all day Tuesday

Milan loses out to Amsterdam to host European Medicines Agency

Italian researchers have created a pasta that could help us survive heart attacks

These 25 cities have the worst air quality in Italy

Swedes and Italians to swap lives for three months for a study into longevity

Italy recalls frozen spinach feared to contain hallucinogenic mandrake

Cancer was common in Renaissance Italy, studies of Naples mummies show

Growing old in Italy: Italians live longer but suffer more

Rome suspends blood donations after mosquito-borne chikungunya cases

Analysis: Why malaria is unlikely to return to Italy

Italy opens manslaughter inquiry over four-year-old girl's malaria death

Four-year-old girl dies of malaria in northern Italy

Compulsory Italian school vaccinations: How it works

Police find three bodies on Italian side of Mont Blanc

Italy prepares to remember 2016 Amatrice earthquake victims

AS IT HAPPENED: Firefighters battle to pull people from Italy earthquake rubble

Tests confirm tainted eggs have reached Italy

Italian doctors implant first artificial esophagus

Chaos at new emergency services 112 hotline

Nurse allegedly gave baby morphine 'to calm it down'

Milan among 19 cities vying to host EMA post-Brexit

Italian wheelchair hopes to bring users freedom

Health risk alarm over water rationing in Rome

Italy's top court rules out autism link in vaccine case

Bush fires stretching capacity of fire department

How an Italian startup is bringing magic to children's hospital appointments

Italian woman sues hospital after unsuccessful abortion

UK denies transfer to Rome hospital for terminally ill baby Charlie Gard

Italy set to relax its controversial child vaccine law

Rome children's hospital offers transfer for British baby Charlie Gard

Child's tetanus case is first in 30 years

Motorcycling: Biaggi out of intensive care

How to keep cool like an Ancient Roman in Italy's summer heat

2017

A new antibiotic that could fight drug-resistant bacteria has been found in Italy

Italy's northern regions are challenging a mandatory vaccine law

OPINION: 'Italy's mandatory vaccine law should be adopted worldwide'

Italy makes vaccines compulsory for school starters

Italy measles cases rise fivefold as vaccination argument turns political

Mobile phones can cause tumours, Italian court rules

Italian health minister accuses documentary of 'fake news' on cancer vaccine

Italians and Brits are most likely to drink while pregnant

Life expectancy has fallen in Italy, with northerners outliving those in the south

Drinking between meals is on the rise in Italy

For the first time, Italians will be able to get abortion pills in clinics

Barack Obama to speak at Milan food summit this summer

UN rights panel urges Italy to ensure access to safe abortions

Threefold rise in measles cases as Italy's anti-vaccine movement grows

An Italian woman was forced to go to 23 hospitals to have an abortion

Plan to hire 'abortion doctors' at Rome hospital sparks outcry

Knights of Malta accept head's resignation over condom row

Seven very Italian ways to beat the January blues

2017

Italian hospital chief suspended after photos show patients treated on the floor

2016

Italy’s best (and weirdest) hangover cures

Turin smog puts half of children at health risk: study

Italian doctors transplant kidney for spleen in world first

2,000-year-old teeth show malaria existed in Roman Empire

Despite government efforts, Italy's birthrate continues its sharp decline

Italian region bans non-vaccinated children from public daycare

Italy hotels offer free stays to couples who conceive there

Italy tests 3,500 children for TB after doctor diagnosed

Italian doctors remove wrong kidney from sick man

Retiring abroad: ensuring your health is covered

 
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Scientists find keys to a long life in Italy's 100 club village

Italian fertility campaign scrapped after backlash

Italian carries Zika in sperm for record six months

Italian pilgrim's death sparks meningitis scare

Italian team finds vaccine against western diet's ills

Turin could slash Wi-Fi over 'radiation' concerns

UK firm buys Sardinians' DNA to find the key to a long life

Italians queue to donate blood for train crash victims

Becoming an expat: where to start

 
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Eat away: Italian study shows pasta doesn't make you fat

Two-year-old hospitalized after being raised vegan

Berlusconi to have heart op for attack 'that nearly killed him'

Italian man 'turns French' after brain injury

Silvio Berlusconi hospitalized for heart condition

Italy has 'moderate' risk of Zika virus outbreak: WHO

Italian IVF doctor suspected of stealing patient's eggs

Why Italian merry widows perk up after husbands die

It's a long life for Italians as number of centenarians triples

Homeless snub famous Italian chef's vegan dishes

Bizarre Italian food rules foreigners fall foul of

Another popular Florence art museum is infested with ticks

Getting an abortion 'too hard' even though it's legal in Italy

Italian nurse 'may have killed others'

Nurse accused of killing 13 patients in Italian hospital

Italian medics jailed for killing patient with chemo overdose

Relief at sacking of scandal-hit Italian celeb surgeon

Consumer rights group warns of toxic knock-off Nutella

Italian surgeon fired from Swedish research institute

Rats and cockroaches roam Italian capital’s hospitals

Italian surgeons remove 15kg tumour from woman's breast

Italy Zika case may have been sexually transmitted: doctors

Anger as Italy fines women up to €10k for secret abortions

Mars and Snickers recalled in Italy over plastic fears

Nobel professor resigns over Italian celeb surgeon row

Syrian cancer kid first to use Italy humanitarian corridor

Italian celeb surgeon told to quit Swedish hospital

Italian celebrity surgeon faces probe over controversial ops

What you need to know about Italy's new smoking laws

Kinder Surprise: Italian kid finds pill instead of toy in egg

Fears as fetus-deforming Zika virus found in Italy

Italy faces EU probe for trying to save steel jobs

VIDEO: Scared of rats? Rome epidemic will creep you out

HIV transfusion scandal: Italy ordered to pay out millions

Woman dies during abortion in Naples

Probe sheds light on Italy childbirth deaths

Olivetti asbestos trial gets underway

Italian town shuts down Wi-Fi over health fears

Iceman's gut bug sheds light on human migration

Parents plan to sue after baby born without legs

Italy in shock over spate of childbirth deaths

2015

Italy's youth shun the Mediterranean diet

Car clampdown as smog smothers Italy

Milan smog: traffic limited for three days

Cocaine tea sold in Italian shops for years

Italy defies EU order to fell diseased olive trees

Italy pensioner dies in biscuit hunting accident

Italian gives birth to two sets of identical twins

Italy's doctors to strike against budget cuts

Woman sues Turin call centre over lost voice

Smog: Italian cities offer free bus and metro rides

Rome HIV man arrested for infecting lovers

Flu-jab snubbing Italians face winter epidemic

Italian doctor murdered in Kenya armed robbery

Columbus 'didn't bring syphilis to Europe': study

Italy scientist says Mr Punch had tuberculosis

How to figure out healthcare abroad

 
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Ex-mayors probed over La Scala asbestos deaths

Why are so many Italian children overweight?

Four Italians contract deadly rat urine disease

Italy outraged after school rejects Aids girl

Italian doctor banned in UK over bad English

Italy quells cancer fears with giant ham sandwich

Italian bride-to-be injured in romantic serenade fall

Milan clinic probed after pregnancy death

Vatican denies claims Pope has brain tumour

Italy bans smoking in cars carrying children

Italian hospital refuses stripper's blood donation

650,000 cars in Italy affected in VW scandal

Italian doctor to do first head transplant in China

'Mad cow' fears after man dies in Turin

Fewer Italians want to be doctors

Tourists in Italy sold old fish and fake champagne

Schizophrenic man dies after 'invasive' treatment

Italian town warns people to 'stop dying'

Two dead from 'mad cow' disease in Lecce

Hot waiting room costs Sicilian hospital €2m gift

Italians are smartphone mad, says study

Brit weighing 120kg rescued from bell tower

Heatwave kills 140 pensioners in Piedmont

Migrants must prove they are disease-free: mayors

Italy's killer hornets: what you need to know

Italy amends contentious fertility law

'Hero' ambulance driver has heart attack at wheel

Medics 'pumped patient with air instead of blood'

Michelle Obama pushes health food diet in Milan

Woman dies in assisted fertility operation in Italy

Italian nurse cured of Ebola

Eating Italian food stops impotence: professor

Six bizarre health tips Italian grans swear by

Italy okays proton therapy in cancer case

Italian court tells veggie mum: feed your son meat

Boy survives after 42 minutes under water

Nurse becomes Italy's second Ebola case

Caesar did not suffer from epilepsy: scientists

Brits in Italy could face health 'black hole'

Woman dies after botched nose operation

Italian woman gives birth ten days after abortion

Illnesses that only seem to strike Italians

Italy's steel workers risk cancer or hunger

First Italian babies born with egg donor

Italy's C-section rate among Europe's highest

Italian stallions 'bigger men than Germans'

Italy-US medical merger to create €2.4bn firm

Italian teen gets titanium pelvis in world first

Doctor faked paraplegia for €1.2m payout

Tuscan cemetery could help cure cholera

Baby dies in ambulance as hospitals are full

Italy 'dying' as birth rate hits historic low

Rome doctors get check-up over mass sickie

Italian told she can use dead husband’s sperm

Chemist causes flap with 'therapeutic' sex toys

'Taking selfies with dead patients was wrong'

Doctors flee Italy in their thousands

Former Italy FM Bonino has lung cancer

Italy moves to widen smoking ban

Doctors 'took out wrong kidney from patient'

Italian doctor cured of Ebola to leave hospital

2014

Italians upbeat about health in 2014

Christmas cake seized by Italy health police

Italy's Ebola patient is getting better

Baby born in Milan to clinically dead mother

Boy denied blood tests over €38 unpaid bill

Abortion rate higher among foreigners in Italy

Italian Ebola patient's health improves

Drugs agency clears flu jab in Italy scare

Italian Ebola patient's health 'worsens slightly'

First tests of Novartis suspect flu jab negative

Italy HIV cases more than double since 2004

Italy examines 13 deaths in Novartis flu jab probe

Italy suspends Novartis vaccine after three die

Italian baby tests positive for cocaine

Italian Ebola patient in 'stable' condition

Cancer survival rates climb in Italy

Woman gives birth on Milan metro platform

First Italian with Ebola takes trial drug

Italian doctor contracts Ebola in Sierra Leone

Doctors given lavish gifts in baby milk scam

Renzi vows law change after asbestos case

Rome hosts UN meeting on malnutrition

'Cancer is proof God doesn't exist': ex-MP

460 Italians sought 'right to die' in 2013

Wasps and worms off the menu in Milan

Italian fined as Ebola joke triggers plane alert

Medics fight to save baby in dead mother's womb

Mummified body found in Modena hospital

Uproar over US troops' Ebola quarantine in Italy

Doctor 'forged baby scan to hide deformity'

'Sadomasochist medics used hospital tools'

Italy gives €50 million to fight Ebola disease

Italian nurse 'molested foreign tourist'

Renzi joins counterparts in call on Ebola and Isis

Plane diverts to Rome after Ebola scare

Nurse 'killed 38 patients for being annoying'

'You can’t donate blood because you’re gay'

Rome Ebola case was a 'false alarm'

AC Milan denies Essien has Ebola virus

Grandfather and sick boy in 'murder-suicide'

ECHR rejects Italy embryo mix-up case

Suspected Ebola victim tests negative for virus

Outcry after two women refused morning-after pill

Italian police seize 20m 'deadly' loom bands

Boy, 5, gets Hepatitis B from discarded syringe

7,000 apply for two nursing jobs in Veneto

One quarter of Italian teens has tried cannabis

'Ebola' patient in Italy has malaria

Suspected first case of Ebola in Italy

Italian army moves to produce cannabis drugs

Two patients isolated in Padua over Ebola fears

Grillo's 'isolate migrants' plan dismissed by WHO

Italian scientists map brain to diagnose ALS

Italian woman cleared of Ebola in Turkey

'The G-spot doesn't exist': Italian scientist

Italian woman in suspected Ebola case

Wives suffer 'Retired Husband Syndrome'

'Let infertile couple use donors': Italian court

Italian doc: I've found the key to head transplants

Embryo mix-up: twins must stay with birth mum

Perugia couple arrested for female mutilation

'Jail pro-anorexia web writers': Italian MPs

Put all migrants in quarantine: far-right

Embryo mix-up couple to launch custody battle

Italians among the most surgically enhanced

Italian family gets €1m over smoker's death

Women who eat apples have better sex

First Italian pregnant after egg donor ban lift

Italians are getting more depressed: report

Child cancer rate up in Italy's 'Land of Fires'

Obese Italian woman dies after slimming operation

Italians are poorer but healthier: OECD

Thousands of toxic Parmesan wheels seized

Veneto beach bans smoking

Fall in birth rate hits Italy's population growth

Italian man sues doctors for prolonged erection

Police bust €4 million infected meat scam

Doctor missed 'clearly visible' cancer tumour

Health services cut by 1.9 percent in three years

Sperm donor services to start in Italy

Chinese woman 'adopted' by doctors for six years

Italy seeks €1.2bn over 'illicit' Swiss drug deal

Italy's birth rate hits record low

Police seize smuggled medicines in Genoa

Campania president arrested for corruption

'Red wine won't prolong life': Tuscan study

Italian police uncover fake mozzarella scam

Lazio offers €800 reward for home births

Officer fights dismissal for dressing as a woman

'Mafia is behind stolen anti-cancer drugs'

Woman had abortion and hid foetus

Italian doctor 'refused to assist abortion'

Italian doctor sued for 'refusing Easter visit'

Italian hospital botched paternity test

Italy embryo mix-up: real parents identified

Embryo mix-up: couples to get DNA tests

IVF patient pregnant with wrong baby

Italian woman dies after taking abortion drug

Milan 'clinic of horrors' doctor jailed for life

Italy court rules ban on sperm donors 'unlawful'

Woman found dead after liposuction operation

Ten-year-old dies in routine eye operation

Italy defends olive oil against British fat attack

Mafia's grip on Italian food 'jeopardizes safety'

Milan 'clinic of horrors' doctor 'killed' four

Rome doctors left woman to abort baby in toilet

Italy fines Swiss pharma giants for 'illicit deal'

Rome water pollution sparks public ban

'Veganism can cause anorexia': Italian priest

Cancer doctors treat woman on wrong breast

Carnival costumes a health threat in Rome

Dead teen was 'too broke to pay dentist'

'Toxic waste victims need doctors not soldiers'

PM urges rapid action against toxic dumps

Italian scientists say bionic hand can 'feel'

Farmer dies of suspected mad cow disease

Health ministry told to pay dead soldier's family

Italian mum sues hospital after baby swap

2013

'Sugar is better than cocaine' ad is a flop

Friends star advises Italy on drug addiction fight

Severely sick Italians fear job loss

'Radioactive' boars roaming northern Italy

Italy says 'traffic light' system 'unfair' on its diet

Turin residents most at risk of deadly pollution

The Italian 'injecting hope' in Afghanistan

Rome project offers hope to dementia sufferers

Italy to criminalize toxic waste burning

Course aims to train 'sex assistants' for disabled

Foreign births on the rise in Italy: report

Most medicines sold online are fake

Students 'allergic to school' in Bergamo

Mona Lisa goes bald in fight against cancer

Italy reverses ban on e-cigs in public places

Olivetti probed over asbestos deaths

Italians discover cancer-fighting olive oil

'E-cigarettes could save 30,000 Italian lives a year'

Doctors scam €1.5m from 'dead' patients

Viagra gum launches in Italy

Parkinson's drug 'caused' pensioner's gambling

Italian cities are Europe's worst ozone offenders

Viagra sales shoot up in Italy as price slashed

Celebrities call for end to toxic waste near Naples

Majority of Piemonte doctors oppose abortion

More Italians are taking anti-depressants: study

Website rapped for €99 breast implants

Six million Italians are obese - report

Mother calls for brothels to be reopened

Psychiatric patient dies after eating banana

Olive oil may avert memory loss - study

Italians 'can’t afford' medicine due to crisis

Rotten fish and meat found in restaurant blitz

Three die in Italy's 40C heatwave

Italy scraps e-cigarette tax plans

Italy issues warning over impending heatwave

Tourists fall sick after eating 'toxic' salami

10 people sick in Genoa after eating toxic pesto

Italy's healthcare disrupted by strike

Italian woman 'cured' after trip to Lourdes

Italian skin doc slams cheeky mini-short craze

Botched diagnosis led to Italian's assisted death

Electronic cigarette tax 'a scam'

Two million in Italy at risk of 'techno-stress'

Pizza makes people happier: study

Care home workers held over patient abuse

Italy littered with fat cats and pudgy pooches

Cost of e-cigarettes set to rise in Italy

'Disabled people should have right to sex help'

Turin family poisoned after eating toxic pasta

Italian dairy boss held for 'selling toxic milk'

Children's lives at risk from fake medicine

Italy's waters are even safer to swim in

Skin cancer: a burning issue for many Italians

Italy mulls electronic cigarette ban in schools

Sars-like tests were false-positive

Sentence boost for Swiss tycoon in asbestos trial

Italians drop the drugs as crisis rages

Steel assets seized over plant pollution scandal

Italy approves law on stem cell therapy

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