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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.
Diagnosis and prevention of pneumonia
Pneumonia presents itself as a severe infection or inflammation of the lungs caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi
What is listeriosis and how to prevent it
Listeriosis is an infection caused by a pathogenic bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. Humans come into contact with the bacterium mainly through eating contaminated food: for this reason, the infection is called food-borne
Diagnosis of diabetes: why it often arrives late
Too often underestimated, diabetes is among the most serious chronic non-communicable diseases. There are more than 3.5 million diabetics in Italy and data unfortunately shows a steady increase in mortality (+3% approximately) from this…
What is Montezuma's Revenge? An overview of traveller's diarrhoea
Traveller's diarrhoea is the most common illness that can occur while travelling. It affects about 20-50% of international travellers each year
Fusion prostate biopsy: how the examination is performed
Prostate biopsy using the Fusion technique is a method that allows targeted diagnosis of prostate cancer: the most frequent neoplasm in men, with an estimated 36,000 new diagnoses in Italy based on the latest data from 2020
What are congenital heart defects?
The term 'congenital' means 'existing at birth'. Congenital defects include all those alterations in the structure or function of one or more organs that occurred before birth, at conception or during embryo-fetal life
Functional dyspepsia: symptoms, tests and treatment
Functional Dyspepsia comprises different clinical entities, characterised by various gastrointestinal symptoms, localised to the upper abdomen, in the absence of organic pathology
Affective disorders: mania and depression
Affective disorders are characterised by an alteration in mood, the sense of euphoria (manic states), or that of sadness (depressive states)
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: Risk Factors
The risk factors most commonly considered in favouring pelvic floor dysfunctions are of a general acquired type such as age, sex, internist pathologies of a chronic nature, conditions accompanied by repeated increases in abdominal pressure…
Ultrasound: essential for diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological diseases
Ultrasound is extremely important in the field of rheumatology because it is a great support during diagnosis, and especially when it comes to differential diagnostics