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Deep brain stimulation (DBS from the English acronym Deep Brain Stimulation) is a surgical treatment aimed at reducing debilitating motor symptoms characteristic of movement disorders such as Parkinson's, dystonia and essential tremor

The term diarrhoea designates the emission of liquid or semi-liquid stools. It most often manifests itself in several daily discharges, but can also occur in a single evacuation

An open fracture is a broken bone that penetrates the skin. This is an important distinction because when a broken bone penetrates the skin there is a need for immediate treatment, and an operation is often required to clean the area of the…

Infection with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteria does not usually affect healthy people: this type of infection mainly affects immunocompromised individuals who are in hospital settings (such as in-patients and especially long-term…

The P.O.L.I.C.E. Principle Emergency Treatment for Acute Injuries: the long-used R.I.C.E. method may not be the best way to treat an acute injury. The acronym stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation

The Heimlich maneuver is a tool used to help someone who is choking. Parents of young children know all too well that small objects and pieces of food can easily get lodged in the throat

Heinz Friedrich Rudolf Prechtl (6 July 1927 Vienna, 3 July 2014 Graz) was an Austrian researcher, physician, zoologist and anthropologist

Trauma is currently one of the most serious public health problems worldwide: in industrialised countries, it is the leading cause of death in the under-40 age group and the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer

Internal haemorrhage (internal hemorrhage or 'internal bleeding') in medicine refers to a type of haemorrhage in which blood, leaking from a blood vessel or from the heart, pours out and may accumulate inside the body

When the number of beneficial bacteria in our intestinal flora decreases, the normal balance of 'good' and 'bad' bacteria in the gut is altered and eubiosis gives way to 'dysbiosis' (also known as dysbacteriosis)