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Osteoarthritis of the hip-i.e., coxarthrosis-is a condition that mostly affects the elderly population (>65 years old), essentially due to premature wear and tear of the joint heads that impairs normal walking

Stye and chalazion: sometimes it happens to have eye discomfort without really knowing what it is. For example, when we notice inflammation in the eyelids, we often use as synonyms terms that are not at all, such as chalazion and stye. In…

For some time now, the pages of major newspapers and popular magazines have been talking about sleep apnea, OSAS, hypersomnia

Myocardial scintigraphy is a diagnostic examination to examine the health of the coronary arteries and the blood supply to the myocardium

Agoraphobia is a form of anxiety related to the feeling of being in places or situations from which it would be difficult to leave

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune-prone disease that causes inflammation and joint stiffness in children up to 16 years of age

We speak of primary stuttering when it manifests itself in an apparent and transitory manner, typical of childhood, consisting of physiological and normal disfluencies and intermittent hesitations and initial syllabic repetitions

Iatrogenesis is a general term commonly used to refer to diseases, side effects, or complications due to drugs or medical treatments in general, which are wrong results

The answer can be found in a theory (of the gate), postulated more than 50 years ago by Canadian psychologist Ronald Melzack and British neuroscientist Patrick David Wall, referred to as the "gate theory of pain control," or more simply…

Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent variety of primary dementia in the world. Alzheimer's disease gradually presents with memory loss, difficulty in movement, loss of language ability, and difficulty recognizing objects and people