2021

Back pain: when crises recur over time and become recurrent in the months following the first manifestation, it becomes advisable to consult a specialist: treating back pathologies is very complex and it is necessary to relate to someone…

Long Covid is now a very common condition. The expert explains what it is and what are the most suitable treatment strategies

Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by the sum of several factors, particularly in western countries. These include, on the one hand, the progressive ageing of the population, poor eating habits and the consequent increase in the number…

Gastric bypass is a hormonal restrictive intervention. In other words, it acts on the digestive tract by reducing the production of certain hormones responsible for hunger and increasing the production of others that increase the sense of…

Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder of the gastrointestinal system in the absence of any other specific pathology causing the symptoms.the symptoms can be different, as well as the causes

Sometimes it’s worth wondering if the things we hear, see and feel are quite as we thought they were. Dr Alan Garner has a look at your senses when you get into the chest and wonders whether it’s all as straight forward as we like to think?…

Myanmar is in mourning and grief: at least one person has died and between 70 and 100 people are missing after a landslide in a jade mine in Kachin State, the northernmost part of Myanmar. This was announced by the rescue team that is…

Christmas is here, and 2021 is drawing to a close. A complicated year, of hopes and commitments: a year marked, once again, by the Covid emergency

A myocardial infarction occurs when part of the heart tissue is necrotic due to a blockage in one of the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with oxygenated blood

The proportion of the omicron variant is growing strongly in Italy. An estimate based on the preliminary analysis of swabs collected for the rapid survey of 20 December could be around 28%, but with strong regional variability