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Schizophrenia is a psychosis characterised by delirium that distorts the patient's contact with the surrounding reality

Cardiac massage on children is performed by pressing on the lower half of the sternum and compressing the chest by about 1/3, for about 5 centimetres, at a rate between 100 and 120 compressions per minute

It is not uncommon for a rescuer to be confronted with the event of childbirth, and therefore careful preparation for the main complications of labour is important

Scabies is an infection caused by a microscopically small (0.3-0.4 mm) external parasitic skin mite, Sarcoptes scabiei

Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognise faces. In medicine, agnosia is a generic term for a disorder of sensory discrimination, whether visual, tactile, olfactory or acoustic

Breast cancer or breast carcinoma is a disease caused by the uncontrolled and abnormal multiplication of certain cells within the mammary gland

An implantable defibrillator is a cardiac pacemaker powered by a battery, which monitors the heart's electrical signals and delivers an electric shock when it detects an abnormal rhythm of a certain type

Foreign accent syndrome is a very rare neurological dysfunction that appears following a stroke or severe head trauma, forcing people who have just awoken from a coma to rehabilitate their language functions with a different accent from the…

Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases (IBD) are a group of diseases characterised by inflammation and damage to the digestive tract

What is ovarian cancer? Ovarian tumours are caused by the uncontrolled multiplication of its cells. They are divided into benign and malignant tumours