https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Scandal-hit Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who is accused of using Swedish patients as guinea pigs, has told a medical magazine that he wasn't to blame for patients' complications, in his first interview since being ousted from his post in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.it/20160504/disgraced-italian-surgeon-defends-work-in-first-interview Wed, 04 May 2016 15:56:31 +0200 disgraced-italian-surgeon-defends-work-in-first-interview Sweden's Karolinska Institute (KI), which awards the Nobel Prize for Medicine, on Wednesday dismissed a Italian transplant surgeon suspected of research fraud and ethical breaches, in an affair that has plunged the renowned institution into crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20160323/italian-surgeon-fired-from-swedish-research-institute Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:13:21 +0100 italian-surgeon-fired-from-swedish-research-institute An Italian surgeon has been sentenced to life in prison, including three years in solitary confinement, for performing operations that led to the death of four people and injured 40 others. https://www.thelocal.it/20140410/milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-jailed-for-life Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:43:00 +0200 milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-jailed-for-life A surgeon accused of performing operations which led to the death of at least four people and two unrequired mastectomies should be sentenced to life, a prosecutor has said. https://www.thelocal.it/20140313/milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-killed-four Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:00 +0100 milan-clinic-of-horrors-doctor-killed-four