Health

Catatonia is a psychopathological syndrome with a dissociative basis, in which the subject's actions become almost completely detached from rational and affective motivations, remaining locked in automatic, rigid, stereotyped attitudes that…

Although stab wounds usually cause a small opening in the skin, they sometimes go very deep, causing serious damage to the body

In medicine, bilirubin encephalopathy (also called 'bilirubin encephalopathy' or 'kernitterus' or 'kernicterus') refers to pathological neonatal jaundice with the passage (across the blood-brain barrier) and deposition of free bilirubin in…

Dyspareunia is genital pain that is felt during sexual intercourse. It is a disabling gynaecological problem that affects approximately 10-20% of women, with peaks of up to 40% after menopause and a profound impact on the sexual life of…

A tympanic perforation is the tearing of the tympanic membrane, following complications of acute or recurrent otitis media or trauma of various kinds

The UK ambulances world is experiencing complicated years: waiting times have become significant, according to local media, which have been reporting on the most striking cases of this aspect of medical transport for many months

Bacterial endocarditis is an infection of the internal structures of the heart or large arteries caused 'by the implantation' of bacteria or, more rarely, fungi

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…

Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, the surgeon who operated on his own appendix: in an old issue of the British Medical Journal, a very special story was reported some time ago, a beautiful true story: the extraordinary human and professional case…

What is the golden hour in medicine? In medicine, particularly in emergency surgery, the 'golden hour' refers to the period of time - not necessarily one hour: it ranges from a few minutes to several hours - after a traumatic injury or the…