2022

Shared psychotic disorder', also called Lasègue-Falret syndrome or 'shared psychosis' or 'folie à deux' (i.e. 'madness shared by two') in psychiatry refers to a very rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis - typically a…

Sicily, a Canadair crashed in the territory of Linguaglossa, in the province of Catania: it was a fire-fighting aircraft that crashed on the slopes of Mount Etna

Many new parents worry a great deal when they see their newborn child have hiccups, however, hiccups - in most cases - are a completely normal event that should not cause concern

Refractive surgery is a technique that uses excimer lasers to reshape the surface of the cornea in order to correct or significantly reduce refractive vision defects (myopia, hypermetropia or astigmatism)

Urethritis refers to acute and chronic inflammation of the urethra, a small channel that allows urine to pass from the bladder to the outside

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) can be considered the model of systemic autoimmune diseases. The clinical presentation of SLE is highly variable and clinical pictures include general manifestations and alterations of various organs and…

What is leukaemia? When we speak of leukaemias we mean a very large number of malignant pathologies that are all grouped under this term, but which differ from each other in the type of cell involved in the tumour transformation process

Hypothyroidism is a dysfunction of the thyroid gland: the gland is unable to produce a normal amount of thyroid hormones - Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3) - which are therefore present in the blood in lower than normal amounts

Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital heart condition affecting the cardiac electrical conduction system, dependent on a defect present in the individual as early as birth

Cholera is a disease with fecal-oral transmission, i.e. its spread begins with the expulsion of the pathogen through the faeces of the infected individual and ends with the ingestion by a healthy individual of contaminated food or water,…