Health

Smoking, alcohol, papillomavirus and poor oral hygiene are among the main causes of oral cancer

Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV): this Concise Critical Appraisal highlights an article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine that sought to determine the association between invasive mechanical ventilation—a known predictor of adverse…

How Do I Know If I Have a Bone Fracture? Doctors can usually recognize most fractures by examining the injury and taking X-rays

Let's talk about sleepwalking: have you ever gone to sleep in your bed and woken up on the sofa in the living room? Or maybe you woke up with mysterious crumbs scattered on your pyjamas with no memory of a midnight snack?

Many people treat pollen allergy symptoms with over-the-counter medications and avoid triggers. The effects of pollen allergies are often underestimated, especially in the early spring

Using CAR-T: a combination of gene and drug therapy inhibits cancer growth. The study by researchers at the Pediatric Hospital of the Holy See published in the journal Neuro-OncologyCAR-T

Kaposi's sarcoma is a multicentric vascular tumour caused by herpes virus type 8. The various forms are classical, AIDS-associated, endemic (in Africa), or iatrogenic (e.g. after organ transplantation)

A heart murmur is not always a sign of illness, but it is worth investigating its origin. It is a rustling sound, a 'vibration' that produces a noise perceptible to an expert ear

Parkinson's disease is the most common movement disorder. Males are affected 1.5 times more than females: the neurons, due to a drop in dopamine levels in a particular area of the brain, undergo slow but progressive neurodegeneration

Initially known as "Crohn's disease", what we now more correctly call Crohn's disease, to emphasise that it is not a contagious disease, typically occurs in individuals who have, due to a genetic predisposition, an abnormal immune response…