medicine

Traumatic pneumothorax is the presence of air in the pleural space as a result of trauma, causing partial or complete collapse of the lung

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.

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

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

First guidelines: recommendations on the management of the extracorporeal oxygenation technique ECMO in paediatric patients in an international document published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health

Enterobiasis is an intestinal infestation of Enterobius vermicularis pinworms, usually in children, but adult family members and carers, institutionalised persons and those who have had oral-anal contact with an infected partner during…

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…

Myopia is a very common eyesight defect. It is the most common refractive defect in the world. In Italy it affects 1 in 4 people. We are talking about myopia, a problem that prevents objects from being seen well at a distance