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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.
Melasma, a skin disorder due to hypermelanosis
Melasma consists of (typical and characteristic) zone hyperpigmentation resulting in the formation of visible spots
Myocardial infarction: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
When people commonly speak of an infarction, they are referring to the necrosis of cardiac muscle tissue, thus, medically speaking, we speak of a myocardial infarction
Hereditary diseases: Fabry (or Anderson-Fabry) disease
A serious hereditary disease caused by a mutation in the GLA gene, Fabry disease is characterised by the accumulation of sphingolipids in lysosomes
Miosis: definition, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
What is miosis? It is the decrease in the diameter of the pupil and is a completely physiological condition of the eye, the functioning of which involves a narrowing or dilation of the pupil depending on the light
Low back pain: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Everyone has had back pain at least once in their life. It is the so-called "low back pain", so called because it concerns the lumbar region
Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this inflammatory…
Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus is an inflammatory dermatosis that predominantly affects the ano-genital area
Crohn's disease: symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment
Crohn's disease (or disease), also known as terminal ileitis or segmental ileitis, is an inflammatory bowel disease with similarities and differences from the other, more widespread inflammatory bowel disease, which is ulcerative colitis…
When love turns into obsession: emotional dependency
When love turns into an obsession that dominates the mind and causes suffering, we no longer speak of love but of emotional dependency
Hypermetropia: what is it and how can this visual defect be corrected?
Hypermetropia is a very common and easily correctable visual defect. The ophthalmic term 'hypermetropia' refers to a spherical refractive defect in which - light rays produced by objects that appear close or medium close in the field of…
Aortic insufficiency: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of aortic regurgitation
Aortic insufficiency, also known as aortic regurgitation, is a heart condition characterised by a reflux of blood from the aorta into the left ventricle due to an abnormality of the aortic valve