Health and Safety

In the United States, nearly 1 in 200 children are diagnosed with Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndromes (PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS). PANS/PANDAS…

Oxygen ozone therapy is useful in the treatment of pain, but as there are different types of pain, one must first understand its cause and various localisations

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, general features: in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was the most frequent of the major opportunistic infections, affecting about 80% of patients with severe…

The APGAR test is used for assessing newborns: you should assess a newborn at 1 minute and 5 minutes after delivery

Most people would be surprised to learn that nearly 45% of cardiac arrest victims survive thanks to the help of a bystander administering CPR

Prematurity is the single most common factor in respiratory distress or cyanosis of the neonate and occurs most frequently in infants < 1200 grams and 30 weeks of gestation

Therapy against hypertension is the only way to 'knock down' this dangerous cerebro-cardio-renal-vascular risk factor that affects all ages, from 10% of children and young people, to 30% of adults, up to 55% of the elderly population

Organ transplantation is the surgical procedure whereby one or more diseased organs (whose functionality is no longer recoverable) are replaced with one or more organs taken from a donor (cadaveric or living)

Why Kids Should Learn CPR: there is a common misconception that learning first aid and CPR are only meant for teenagers and adults. Wrong

Thrombophilia is defined as a tendency to excessive blood clotting, with a predisposition to develop thromboses and embolisms, both venous and arterial, at a young age (under 45 years)