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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.
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS): the consequences of a stroke or severe head trauma
Foreign accent syndrome is a very rare neurological dysfunction that appears following a stroke or severe head trauma, forcing people who have just awoken from a coma to rehabilitate their language functions with a different accent from the…
What are Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases (IBD)?
Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases (IBD) are a group of diseases characterised by inflammation and damage to the digestive tract
Ovarian cancer: symptoms, causes and treatment
What is ovarian cancer? Ovarian tumours are caused by the uncontrolled multiplication of its cells. They are divided into benign and malignant tumours
Kawasaki syndrome, the most common childhood vasculitis
Kawasaki syndrome is an infectious disease of unknown origin, discovered and classified in 1967 by a Japanese paediatrician, from whom it takes its name, who had observed a number of children with the same symptoms: fever, red blotchy rash,…
Marfan syndrome: what to know
Marfan syndrome is a rare hereditary connective tissue disease that causes changes in the eye, bone, heart, blood vessels, lungs and central nervous system
Vespa Orientalis: everything you need to know and how to act in case of an anaphylactic reaction
After a Vespa Orientalis sting, one must calm the child or adult and keep calm by taking him or her to a safe and sheltered place
First Aid: How to Deal with Panic Attacks
First Aid and Panic Attacks: a panic attack is a sudden and extremer episode of physical and emotional reactions caused by overwhelming fear and anxiety
Raynaud's syndrome: symptoms, causes and treatment
Raynaud's syndrome is a phenomenon caused by sudden, transient vasospasms of the arteries in the fingers of the hand
Autoimmune diseases: care and treatment of vitiligo
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of melanin-producing cells (melanocytes) by immune cells (cytotoxic T lymphocytes)
Radiotherapy: what it is used for and what the effects are
Radiotherapy is a branch of medicine that uses radiation (electromagnetic, similar to that used in X-rays, or body radiation, e.g. electrons) to treat diseases