Health

Salmonellosis is one of a group of infectious diseases caused by bacteria belonging to the salmonella family (excluding Salmonella Typhi, which causes typhoid fever)

Knowing how to recognize the symptoms of thrombosis in a timely manner is crucial in the fight against the disease; with early diagnosis, in fact, thrombosis can be treated effectively, preventing the onset of more serious complications

Schizophrenia is a psychosis characterised by delirium that distorts the patient's contact with the surrounding reality

It is not uncommon for a rescuer to be confronted with the event of childbirth, and therefore careful preparation for the main complications of labour is important

Scabies is an infection caused by a microscopically small (0.3-0.4 mm) external parasitic skin mite, Sarcoptes scabiei

Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognise faces. In medicine, agnosia is a generic term for a disorder of sensory discrimination, whether visual, tactile, olfactory or acoustic

Breast cancer or breast carcinoma is a disease caused by the uncontrolled and abnormal multiplication of certain cells within the mammary gland

An implantable defibrillator is a cardiac pacemaker powered by a battery, which monitors the heart's electrical signals and delivers an electric shock when it detects an abnormal rhythm of a certain type

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…

Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases (IBD) are a group of diseases characterised by inflammation and damage to the digestive tract