Health and Safety

Let's talk about valvulopathies: heart valves are the structures that separate the cardiac chambers (atria and ventricles) from each other and from the great vessels (aorta and pulmonary artery)

Parotitis (popularly known as 'mumps') is an epidemic disease mainly affecting school-age children, caused by a paramyxovirus, typical of humans (there are no known cases of epidemic mumps in animals), which tends to heal spontaneously

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammation that can theoretically affect the entire alimentary canal, from the mouth to the anus, but is mainly localised in the last part of the small intestine called the ileum (ileitis) or in the colon…

Pubalgia is a painful inflammation affecting the muscles of the pubic and/or inguinal area It is a condition that mainly affects competitive sportsmen, but also pregnant women, those who practise sport at an amateur level, or, more…

Wilson's disease is a rare hereditary disease caused by a defect in metabolism that leads to an excessive accumulation of copper in the liver and other tissues (mainly the brain and central nervous system)

Autumn and winter, the seasons of childhood otitis: after the cold, ear infection is the most frequent infectious disease in children (the majority of children have at least one ear infection in the first three years of life)

Asthenia, apathy and anhedonia: these are the 'three A's' that indicate the main symptoms of depression and which, to put it simply, consist of a loss of interest, motivation and energy for things one normally enjoys

Nocturia is a medical term that refers to the need to interrupt sleep to get up and urinate during the night two or more times

Intervention in paediatric toxicological emergencies: exposure to toxic substances frequently occurs in children

Presbyopia is a physiological vision condition that arises due to gradual stiffening of the crystalline lens, a lens located in the posterior chamber of the eye, posterior to the iris, which normally allows images of objects placed at…