medicine

Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB): TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has found that a new, all-oral, six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating rifampicin-resistant…

Syncope or fainting is a brief, temporary loss of consciousness from which one usually recovers completely and spontaneously

Hyperbaric oxygen: Chronic and difficult-to-heal wounds, such as ulcers in the diabetic foot or radiation injuries, are accompanied by a significant impact on the number of working hours lost, with inevitable and significant negative…

Varicocele is the most common cause of male infertility and one of the most common diseases of the male reproductive system. It affects 1 out of every 9 men and is often ignored

A frequent ailment that can affect everyone, from professional runners to... ambulance workers, also due to the 'wrong' shoes

Broken or cracked ribs: a blow to the chest during a football match with friends or a walk in the mountains, but also a fall during housework; then pain in the ribs and shortness of breath

Heart failure and artificial intelligence: a special artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer algorithm created by Mount Sinai researchers was able to learn how to identify subtle changes in electrocardiograms (also known as ECGs or…

Broken heart syndrome, a life-threatening condition whose symptoms mimic a heart attack, is on the upswing, according to new research that shows the sharpest increases among women 50 and older

Diabetes, or diabetes mellitus, is a chronic condition caused by an individual's inability to produce his or her daily requirement of insulin, a hormone from the pancreas that regulates the level of sugar (glucose, which is a kind of fuel…

Paediatrics, childhood tumours: a team of researchers from the Sapienza University of Rome have succeeded in demonstrating the efficacy of two drugs for the suppression of MYCN tumour cells, the origin of neuroblastoma and childhood…