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Health and Safety
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.
Respiratory allergies: symptoms and treatment
Respiratory allergies, like food allergies and, in general any type of allergy, are the hypersensitive result of the immune system to an allergen that comes into contact with the body through the air breathed in
Anorexia nervosa: the risks for adolescents
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder (EDC) that frequently emerges in adolescence
Arrhythmias: the alterations of the heart
Arrhythmias: 'Heartbeat' and 'heart thump' are the two expressions people use to describe the alteration in the rhythm of heartbeats
Arthrosis of the hand: how it occurs and what to do
What is arthrosis of the hand? The term arthrosis is used to define a chronic, developmental disease affecting the joints, the anatomical basis of which is represented by a degenerative process of the cartilages lining the joint bone heads…
Bronchial asthma: symptoms and treatment
Bronchial asthma is one of the most frequent chronic inflammatory diseases of the bronchi. Several blood cells play an important role in this disease, including mast cells, eosinophils and T lymphocytes
Paediatricians' alarm: 'More and more children and adolescents with 'social depression"
The Sip (Italian Society of Paediatrics) presents the results of a study on children and social networks based on 68 scientific papers conducted over 18 years
What is Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart with contrast medium (Cine MRI) and why is it…
Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart, also known as Cine MRI, is a diagnostic examination that allows the heart muscle in motion to be analysed in detail; thanks to a special apparatus, dynamic images can be obtained, which are then…
Cervical cancer: an overview of cervical cancer, or cervical dysplasia
Cancer of the cervix, also known as cervical cancer or cervical dysplasia, is characterised by the rapid and uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the cervix
Atherosclerosis: what is it and how to avoid it?
Atherosclerosis is the common denominator behind the most frequent and most serious cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, heart failure and arteriopathies of the lower limbs
Ascaridiasis: what it is and what the symptoms are
Ascaridiasis is a widespread parasitic disease that frequently affects children and mainly affects poor and developing countries, where hygiene conditions are mostly poor or otherwise insufficient