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Safety is the first pillar of a good life for emergency professionals, rescuers and Fire Fighters. We are operating in a complex and hard environment. Risk prevention and improving working conditions are fundamental for better health and life.
Gastrointestinal disorders: with which symptoms should I visit a gastroenterologist?
Let's talk about gastrointestinal disorders: how many people have experienced stomach pains during moments of particular nervousness or, on the other hand, not realised whether stress or gastric disturbances arose first?
Paediatrics, how to deal with scabies in paediatric age
Scabies is a skin disease due to a parasite specific to humans, a small mite (0.4 - 0.3 mm), invisible to the naked eye, called Sarcoptes scabiei variant hominis
Impulse control disorders: what they are, how to treat them
Impulse Control Disorders are a recently recognized diagnostic category. Disorders such as pathological gambling, pyromania, kleptomania, and intermittent explosive disorder have only been diagnosed with DSM III (American Psychiatric…
De Quervain syndrome, an overview of stenosing tenosynovitis
De Quervain syndrome – also known as stenosing tenosynovitis – is an inflammatory process affecting the synovial sheath of the extensor brevis and abductor pollicis longus tendons
Pyelonephritis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Pyelonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidney and renal pelvis that can be acute or chronic. The disease is often associated with a more or less extensive infection of the organ parenchyma
What is a cardiac pacemaker?
The cardiac pacemaker is a tiny small device which, surgically implanted, is capable of correcting heart rhythm disturbances; intervenes when it perceives that the heart is beating too fast, too slow or there is a discontinuous beat
Bladder prolapse: do you suffer from it? Here's what you need to do
Women suffering from bladder prolapse may complain of various symptoms ranging from a feeling of discomfort in the pelvic area after standing for a long time, to bladder dysfunction such as urinary incontinence or difficulty emptying the…
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis): Definition, causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of adulthood, caused by the loss of spinal, bulbar and cortical motor neurons, which leads to paralysis of voluntary muscles up to and including respiratory…
Rheumatism: what are they and how are they treated?
Rheumatisms, or rheumatic diseases, are pathologies characterized by a local or generalized inflammatory state mainly affecting joints, ligaments, tendons, bones, muscles; rarely, the inflammation can extend and also affect the internal…
Genetic heart disease: Brugada syndrome
Brugada syndrome is a disease that most commonly affects young males in adulthood. The genetic defect is in proteins that control the entry of sodium into the cardiac cell