Health and Safety

Antipyretics are medicines used to reduce body temperature in the event of fever. How? By stimulating thermodispersion mechanisms such as sweating

Let's talk about canker sores: once in a lifetime everyone has had annoying, small, ulcer-like sores in the mouth that cause burning and, in some cases, real pain

Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease characterised by a decrease in bone mass and density that often develops without symptoms and is usually not discovered until weakened bones suffer fractures

Postpartum depression is a mood disorder. Together with anxiety disorders, it is the psychiatric disorder most frequently encountered in the perinatal period (the period immediately preceding and following birth)

The importance of paediatric assessment: although children account for only a small percentage of pre-hospital emergencies, they present a special challenge to EMS professionals; both patient and crew suffer extreme emotional stress and…

Oxyuriasis is an intestinal infection caused by a whitish-coloured worm, the oxyurion (Oxyuris vermicularis, Enterobius vermicularis), first identified in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus

Parkinson's disease: in 1817, James Parkinson published a monograph entitled 'Essay on the shaking palsy'

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…