Health

Cerebral stroke is a pathology that in our country affects about 185,000 people every year, representing the first cause of disability and the third cause of death in Italy. If 150,000 are the new cases, 35,000 are those that follow a first…

Injuries caused by sharps wastes, such as needlestick injuries, remain to be one of the most common hazards for practitioners handling hypodermic syringes and other types of needle equipments.

A sore throat caused by streptococcus is diagnosed with a pharyngeal swab and treated with antibiotics. It can cause serious complications

Transient tachypnoea of the newborn is a transient respiratory distress caused by delayed reabsorption of fetal lung fluid. Symptoms and signs include tachypnoea, retractions, grunting and enlargement of the nasal fins

Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to perform its contractile pumping function, thus failing to provide an adequate blood supply to the entire body

Vocal cord injuries are more common than you might expect. It seems obvious to be able to speak, but alternating phonation, i.e. voice modulation and breathing, in the right way is not at all

Many people will have experienced a "heart murmur", and this expression is often accompanied by a reassuring tone from the doctor who heard it

Musculo-skeletal pain: pain in the bones, affecting the joints but also tendons and ligaments, or muscles. Pain in the neck, the muscles of the spine and back, the knees, to name but a few

Arthrosis is a disease mainly due to wear and ageing of the joints; it is defined by the World Health Organization as a "chronic, degenerative, idiopathic disorder characterised by the progressive loss of articular cartilage" and is one of…

The liver can also be affected by the formation of one or more cysts: small sacs or cavities filled with fluid. Generally, their presence is linked to a benign condition that rarely jeopardises the function of the organ. Only in some…