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Acute Hepatic Porphyria (AHP) is a rare disease that can manifest itself differently from person to person. It has a wide range of debilitating symptoms that are often similar to those of other diseases, making diagnosis difficult

Williams Syndrome is a rather rare disease (it has an incidence of one case per 20,000 births) that affects children. It is not hereditary, nor is it due to medical, environmental or psychosocial factors

Let's talk about the geriatric examination: geriatrics, for a start, is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders and diseases related to ageing

Macular pucker, what is it? The eye, one of the most sophisticated organisms in the human body, relies on the delicate balance of all its parts

Pancreatic cancer, which in 60% of cases occurs at the head, becomes evident when certain cells multiply uncontrollably and very aggressively invade the gland, the duodenum, the biliary tract and prematurely metastasise in other districts…

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic (lifelong) and progressive (tends to degenerate over time) disease

Seizures happen when a large group of neurons undergoes excessive depolarization simultaneously. They occur in a tiny percentage of all newborns

Psoriasis is a skin disease that manifests itself chronically with desquamative erythema. Statistically, it has been shown to be very frequent (affecting 2-5% of the population), particularly in Western countries

Umbilical hernia is the leakage from the abdominal cavity, through the umbilicus, of part of the intestine, intestinal fat (omentum) and/or the sac that covers the intestine (hernia sac)

The term 'chemotherapy' literally means treatment with chemical compounds. This term could encompass most medical treatments, but over time the term chemotherapy has become synonymous with cancer chemotherapy and is used with this meaning…