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Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
What is Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia?
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), also known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, refers to an abnormal growth of lymphocyte precursors or lymphoblasts
Respiratory disease in early childhood and mortality: an overview
Respiratory disease in early childhood linked to higher risk of death in adulthood. Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood is associated with a higher risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult, according…
Stroke action first aid: actions to recognise and help
Stroke action first aid: A stroke occurs when blood flow in the brain is interrupted by a blockage or bleed in one of the blood vessels
What is 3D echocardiography (echocardiogram)?
Echocardiography is a method by which the heart and blood flow through the valves are studied using ultrasound
Unlike the radiation used in radiology, ultrasound is harmless, so no precautions are necessary and the test can be performed on…
Alpha-blockers, drugs for the treatment of high blood pressure
Alpha-blockers are a class of medications that mainly treat high blood pressure, as well as certain conditions affecting your circulatory system, prostate and can help with treating certain types of tumors
Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: what is it and when is it essential?
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation uses donor stem cells to treat and sometimes cure certain blood disorders and blood cancers
When the other vanishes: 'ghosting' in the ended relationship
What is ghosting? This term has been introduced into the common vocabulary in recent years and literally means "ghosting - disappearing like a ghost", it is a phenomenon that has developed with the massive spread of social media and dating…
Gender medicine and women's health: better care and prevention for women
Gender medicine is a new science, born in the 1990s. It seems strange to think of it, but until then science had never posed the problem of a possible differential response to drugs of men and women, as well as a difference between the…
The other side of narcissus: the dark triad of narcissism
Of narcissism we have already spoken, we have tasted the arrogance and presumption of the grandiose one
Congenital heart disease: tricuspid atresia
Tricuspid atresia is a congenital heart defect that is caused by the failure of the tricuspid valve to develop