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High blood pressure affects more than a billion people worldwide and can cause serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications

A concise critical appraisal reviews an article in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that investigated the effectiveness of awake prone positioning to prevent intubation or death in patients with severe COVID-19

Nurses talk about the drama in Afghanistan. Over the last month, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has been in contact with the Afghanistan Nurses Association (ANA) at a time when the country is facing a period of intense…

CT scan of the chest in smokers: the lung and cardiovascular diseases that are most frequent in patients at high risk due to persistent exposure to cigarette smoke require early diagnosis and careful follow-up

When we talk about hives (urticaria), we are actually talking about a group of diseases, all of which present with the same signs and symptoms, but which can have very different causes, allergic but not only

There is a spectre hovering over our increasingly curved and dull society: the name is Alzheimer's, and it is hard to forget for anyone except the sufferers

Transvaginal ultrasound is a very common non-invasive gynaecological diagnostic test. It can be two- or three-dimensional, is usually associated with a gynaecological examination and enables the internal reproductive organs and surrounding…

Hepatitis, a chronic inflammation: hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver cells that develops from an immune attack by lymphocytes on the liver

Nomophobia has not been officially recognised as a disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5, A proposal for including nomophobia in the new DSM-V, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, and Giovanni Del Puente, published…

Mental disorders in Italy, what are ASO and TSO? Very often the two acronyms ASO and TSO are used without really knowing what they are and how they work. Respectively they stand for Compulsory Sanitary Assessment and Compulsory Sanitary…