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The Italian data protection authority fined IQVIA Solutions Italy €7 million for treating patient records as anonymous when they were actually pseudonymised personal data subject to GDPR. This decision demonstrates regulators' strict interpretation of what constitutes personal data, even as the EU considers narrowing this definition through the Digital Omnibus reforms.

On December 17, 2020, in consideration of the COVID-19 emergency, the Italian Permanent Conference for relations between the State, the Regions and the...

The scheme of regulation, after the approval of the State-Regions Conference, was awaiting the opinion of the Council of State and was about to be issued so that, after 5 years, ...

Medical research and data protection: in the last days, divergent comments and positions have appeared on the web regarding the text of the new Art. 110-a of the Privacy Code ...

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, is a virus that belongs to the Coronavirus family and, even though it is very similar to the SARS spread between 2002 and 2003...

Patients seeking compensation for medical errors are not required to prove the occurrence of the error.

This rule applies even if that same medicinal product may be sold in another Member State without a medical prescription.

Il diritto alle origini biologiche consente a ogni persona adottata di conoscere le proprie radici genetiche e familiari, ma questo diritto deve essere bilanciato con la scelta della madre biologica di mantenere l'anonimato.

The new medical malpractice in Italy: criminal and civil profiles.

DECRETO-LEGGE 9 marzo 2020, n. 14: Disposizioni urgenti per il potenziamento del Servizio sanitario nazionale in relazione all'emergenza COVID-19

Growing, selling and importing medical cannabis is allowed on the condition that the authorisation of the Ministry of Health is obtained. Cultivation, sale and import are currently mainly managed...

It is a time of major changes in the private health sector. Foreign investment funds are purchasing healthcare facilities in Italy, and within the territory various mergers ...

Un'altra iniziativa di notevole rilevanza adottata dal Governo, allo scopo di contrastare l'emergenza sanitaria in atto in Italia, riguarda il Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio...

The health emergency that hit the whole Country already arose questions about the possibility of renegotiating contracts.

On 12 October 2005, the Italian Competition Authority ("the Authority") fined baby milk producers 9.743 million lira for engaging in concerted practices to fix the price of infant food in restraint of competition.

Recently the Italian Corte di Cassazione (last instance court) - 3rd Civil Chamber issued a decision (judgment no. 22884 of October 30th, 2007) in a lawsuit, which is generally considered as the leading case on tobacco companies’ liabilities with respect to damages caused to smokers’ health.

In a decision handed down on 15 January 2019, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio ("TAR Lazio") ordered the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education,

World Mental Health Day is on 10 October this year and to chime with that, we surveyed almost 30 countries to find out about two related risks for long term remote workers: the risk of feelings of isolation and...