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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.
What is the Carney complex?
Carney complex is a rare disease characterised by a set of alterations that can be summarised as follows: skin lesions associated with tumours that may involve both endocrine and non-endocrine organs
BMI: how to calculate body mass index
BMI or Body Mass Index is a very important value in the assessment of risks related to overweight and obesity: its criteria are provided by the World Health Organisation
Myotonic dystrophy: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Discovered by Steinert in 1909, as a variant of congenital myotonia and later re-evaluated by Batten and Gibb as a disease in its own right, myotonic dystrophy is a multisystem disease (i.e. it affects several of the body's systems)…
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA): What is it?
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) is an interventional cardiology technique first performed in 1977 by a German physician, Dr Andreas Gruentzing
Stress dermatitis: causes, symptoms and remedies
Stress dermatitis: increasingly often moments of apprehension, stress and anxiety can trigger manifestations on the skin with symptoms typical of dermatitis
Atrial fibrillation: symptoms to watch out for
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the general population and its prevalence tends to increase with age
Complications of liver cirrhosis: what are they?
Usually, cirrhosis of the liver shows no obvious signs and may be asymptomatic for several years. As the fibrosis process progresses, the disease can lead to a number of complications. These are
Condylomas: what they are and how to treat them
Condylomas are benign tumour lesions, mainly transmitted sexually, and caused by viruses of the papillomavirus type
Depression, symptoms and treatment
Depression is a clinical condition that involves a number of issues that are not always easy to manage and affects an increasing number of people
Aetiological classification of hypertension
Hypertension is a constant, non-occasional state in which blood pressure at rest is higher than the physiological standard considered normal