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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.
Visual halos around lights: what pathologies to think of when the patient describes them?
Visual halos around lights is a visual disturbance characterised by the presence of glows or bright circles surrounding objects
Pelvic varicocele: what it is and how to recognise the symptoms
Guidance on how not to confuse pelvic varicocele disease with other female symptoms. Unfortunately, many women feel immediately concerned when it comes to painful twinges in the lower abdomen
Fracture of the wrist: how to recognise and treat it
Let's talk about wrist fracture: fractures of the wrist and hand bones, or sprains with ligament injuries of the wrist are frequent traumas, which are easy to incur by falling while performing simple, everyday activities or while doing…
Let's talk about osteopathic medicine: what does it consist of and what benefits does it bring to…
About osteopathy: osteopathic medicine is one of the fastest growing fields of medicine in the United States. In the past decade, the number of practicing osteopathic medicine doctors has increased by 80%, according to the American…
Are you pregnant? Yale study explains pregnancy effects of Covid-19 vaccine
Being pregnant makes women look at the Covid-19 vaccine with some concern. This comes at a time when infodemia, the propagation of fake news in science, is at its most widespread
Chronic pain and psychotherapy: the ACT model is most effective
Chronic pain, the ACT model excels: the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) "rewards" the psychotherapy model applied by the Clinical Psychology Service for the management of chronic pain caused by cancer, migraine or…
Pulmonary hypertension: what it is and how to treat it
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease that occurs when blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and the right side of the heart reaches excessively high levels
Bronchiolitis: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Bronchiolitis is a very frequent infection affecting the respiratory system
Facebook, social media addiction and narcissistic personality traits
Social addiction: an interesting study looked at the most popular of these, Facebook
Rare diseases: positive results of a phase 3 study for the treatment of idiopathic hypersomnia
Idiopathic hypersomnia: results of the international phase 3 clinical trial, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals and published in Lancet Neurology, showed a clinically positive improvement in the overall severity of idiopathic hypersomnia…