Health

Asphyxia in medicine refers to the dangerous condition in which normal breathing is impeded due to various direct or indirect factors that prevent proper gas exchange with the environment

The recommended treatment for most cases of craniosynostosis is surgery. During the procedure, the surgeon moves your child’s bony plates in the skull into a more circular shape

There can be different types of back pain and they can have different causes, in men and women.  More than 15 million Italians suffer from back pain, a disorder that is as frequent as it is different from person to person

Bladder cancer accounts for 3% of urological cancers, yet it is the most diagnosed urological neoplasm after prostate cancer

A thrombus is a solid mass made up of fibrin containing platelets, red and white blood cells, which is formed by blood clotting within an unruptured cardiovascular system: this distinguishes it from a clot, which forms outside the…

Oxygen therapy (also called 'oxygen supplementation therapy') in medicine refers to the administration of oxygen to the patient for therapeutic purposes, as part of a therapy implemented in cases of both chronic and acute respiratory…

Rheumatic fever (or 'acute joint rheumatism'; hence the acronym 'RF', or 'acute rheumatic fever', hence the acronym 'ARF') is an acute inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin and brain

With the arrival of summer, it can happen to be stung by a wasp or bee, to be bitten by a horsefly or viper, to come across the tentacles of a jellyfish or to step on a weevil. What to do for proper and immediate relief?

Brugada syndrome is a rare heart condition that affects about five out of every ten thousand people and was first described in 1992

The death toll rises to 9 in the collapse of a serac on the Marmolada last Sunday