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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 maculopathy, or macular degeneration
Macular degeneration, also known as maculopathy, is a disease that generally manifests itself with advancing age (after the age of 50) and involves a progressive loss of vision in the central area
Balance dysfunction and vertiginous syndrome: let's treat them with functional vestibular…
Vertigo syndrome and balance dysfunctions are characterised by symptoms that are difficult to explain, alterations in the body's faculties of perception in space; to add to this, the rehabilitation therapies to treat them are often little…
Cardiovascular diseases: diagnosis, therapy and prevention
Cardiovascular diseases affecting the heart and blood vessels are very heterogeneous: high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, decompensation and heart attack are the main cause of death in industrialised countries, including Italy
Paediatrics, what is hand-foot-mouth disease
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease that predominantly affects paediatric patients
What is involved in rotator cuff injury?
Injury of the rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder can occur either due to traumatic causes (but this is rare), or due to a sub-acromial conflict syndrome: the tendons of the rotator cuff muscles that insert on the head of the humerus -…
Malaria: transmission, symptoms and treatment
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, transmitted to humans through the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD): symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (abbreviated as MRGE) is a complex of symptoms caused by the phenomenon of reflux, i.e. the passage of part of the gastric content into the oesophagus resulting in symptoms secondary to irritation of the…
Cysts in the biliary tract: Caroli disease
A particular pathology, often considered among the cystic liver diseases, is Caroli disease or Caroli syndrome: it is characterised by cysts communicating with the intrahepatic biliary tract
Fabry disease: what it is and what the symptoms are
Fabry disease (also known as Anderson-Fabry disease) is a genetic lysosomal storage disorder, characterised by the progressive accumulation of glycosphingolipids in tissues and organs throughout the body
Celiac disease: how to recognise it and which foods to avoid
Celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes an immune reaction of the body to the intake of gluten