Health

Responding to emergencies is one of the most important things you can learn in a first aid course. In an emergency, you will have the skills and knowledge to provide potentially life-saving assistance

Hypertension is the elevation of blood pressure values within the arterial circulation above normal values. High blood pressure is a potentially dangerous condition for the body and an important cardiovascular risk factor

Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare but very serious complication of general anaesthesia (GA) that occurs in genetically predisposed subjects (subjects susceptible to MH) following exposure to triggering factors

Cleft lip - also known as cheiloschisis or, more commonly, as 'harelip' - is a fairly common congenital malformation (the incidence is one case per 1000 live births) due to the failure of the two portions of the upper lip of the newborn…

Shared psychotic disorder', also called Lasègue-Falret syndrome or 'shared psychosis' or 'folie à deux' (i.e. 'madness shared by two') in psychiatry refers to a very rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis - typically a…

Refractive surgery is a technique that uses excimer lasers to reshape the surface of the cornea in order to correct or significantly reduce refractive vision defects (myopia, hypermetropia or astigmatism)

Urethritis refers to acute and chronic inflammation of the urethra, a small channel that allows urine to pass from the bladder to the outside

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) can be considered the model of systemic autoimmune diseases. The clinical presentation of SLE is highly variable and clinical pictures include general manifestations and alterations of various organs and…

What is leukaemia? When we speak of leukaemias we mean a very large number of malignant pathologies that are all grouped under this term, but which differ from each other in the type of cell involved in the tumour transformation process

Hypothyroidism is a dysfunction of the thyroid gland: the gland is unable to produce a normal amount of thyroid hormones - Thyroxine (T4) and Triiodothyronine (T3) - which are therefore present in the blood in lower than normal amounts