Health

The United Arab Emirates has sent another aircraft to Ukraine with humanitarian aid and ambulances: 50 tonnes of humanitarian cargo arrived in Warsaw and the ambulances were fully equipped with medical equipment

A Mental Health First Aider, especially in the workplace acts as a point of contact for those with mental health problems, providing support and guidance to health professionals

Schizophrenia is characterised by psychosis (loss of contact with reality), hallucinations (false perceptions), delusions (false beliefs), disorganised speech and behaviour, flattened affectivity (reduced emotional displays), cognitive…

Focal shock waves, introduced into medicine in the early 1990s to treat kidney stones (urological lithotripsy), have also been used for more than a decade to treat many musculoskeletal disorders (mainly tendons and bone)

Retrosternal burning is a disorder that manifests itself in an inflamed sensation posterior to the sternum, the bone located in the anterior chest wall between the two clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs and articulated with it

Movement disorders are neurological diseases that lead to malfunctions in voluntary muscles, procedural learning, automatisms and the cognitive and emotional spheres

A laparocele is a hernia that forms over a scar resulting from surgery.  The term comes from the Greek words laparo (abdomen) and kele (hernia) and is, in fact, a hernia that forms over the scar from abdominal surgery

Early supplemental parenteral nutrition (E-SPN) reduces the risk of infections in hospitalized patients recovering from major abdominal surgery, researchers in China have found

Smoking, alcohol, papillomavirus and poor oral hygiene are among the main causes of oral cancer

Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV): this Concise Critical Appraisal highlights an article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine that sought to determine the association between invasive mechanical ventilation—a known predictor of adverse…