Health and Safety

The role of supervision: the basic element that unites the so-called "helping person" professions (list of health and helping person professions drawn up by the Ministry of Health) lies in the fact that practitioners in these professions…

The term 'first aid' refers to the set of actions that enable one or more rescuers to help one or more persons in distress in a medical emergency

Contaminated food infections are contracted by ingesting food contaminated with pathogens. Sometimes, pathogens that contaminate food can also be contracted without eating it

Tinnitus is a disorder of the ear that manifests itself with a mostly high-pitched sound perception (similar to a whistle, buzzing or ringing) even in the absence of external noise

The serum IGE assay test, more simply called 'Prist test', is a second-level allergological investigation aimed at the assay of total serum IgE; simply put, the test evaluates the concentration of these antibodies in a blood sample, taken…

Tachycardia (an accelerated heartbeat) is a fairly common phenomenon: everyone has experienced an increase in heart rate at least once, perhaps in a state of agitation or stress, despite being at rest, i.e. without the body being put under…

The neonate with late prematurity is a particularly delicate patient because, as his organs and systems are still immature, he is exposed to various perinatal pathologies

Ramsay Hunt syndrome, also known as herpes zoster oticus, manifests itself with neurological disorders and is caused by the reactivation of herpes zoster, the same virus that causes chickenpox

The importance of vaccines: throughout history, many diseases have been brought under control thanks to large-scale vaccination policies

Mammary Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic examination, complementary to mammography and breast ultrasound, that makes it possible to identify extremely accurately even very small nodules that are often undetectable with…