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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.
Cerebral intoxications: hepatic or porto-systemic encephalopathy
Patients who present with a liver disease (cirrhosis of the liver) often experience peculiar and most often difficult to understand symptoms
Diabetes and cardiovascular risk: what are the main complications
Diabetes is a chronic disease characterised by high blood glucose levels, a condition known as hyperglycaemia, and due to an altered quantity or function of insulin
HPV infection and cancers of the nose, mouth and throat: what is there to know?
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can infect the skin and mucous membranes of the mouth, oesophagus, genitals and anal area; infections are common and often asymptomatic, as they are usually suppressed by the immune system
Straight Leg Raise: the new manoeuvre to diagnose gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
How the Straight Leg Raise manoeuvre works: a group of Italian researchers demonstrated that raising the legs can be a useful additional manoeuvre to improve the diagnostic capacity of high-resolution oesophageal manometry
Knee arthrosis (gonarthrosis): the various types of 'customised' prosthesis
Let's talk about prostheses: knee arthrosis (or gonarthrosis) is a very common disease worldwide, second in numbers only to that involving vertebrae
Kidney cancer: laparoscopic surgery and the latest technologies
Adenocarcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer, accounts for about 2% of all malignancies and mainly affects the male sex: of the 4,000 cases registered each year in our country, 2/3 are men
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: uveitis/ridocyclitis
Uveitis/iridocyclitis is an inflammation that can cause significant eye damage, up to and including total loss of vision. In most cases it is treated with local therapy
Depression in the elderly: causes, symptoms and treatment
Major depression in the elderly is a serious condition that needs to be addressed early on with the most appropriate therapies
Testicular pain: what can be the causes?
It is common for young males to experience testicular pain, although it is a common clinical manifestation at any age
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes: what are the differences?
Diabetes is a growing disease worldwide and, in Italy, affects over 3.5 million patients (5.9% of the entire population)