Health

Toxic shock syndrome is a clinical condition characterised by the rapid onset of fever, skin rash, low blood pressure and muscle pain

Wound infections are generally referred to as surgical wounds. Wounds are never sterile, but in most cases they do not become infected because the immune system is able to effectively eliminate contaminants

No vax and paediatric admissions are the main features of this pandemic phase: in one week, the number of children under 18 admitted for Covid rose from 45 to 66. Overall, bed occupancy increased by 13.7% in seven days

Intestinal obstruction is a complex syndrome characterised by the intestinal transit of faeces and gas being blocked. The most frequent forms in paediatric age are mechanical in nature

The Transesophageal Echocardiogram uses ultrasound to visualise and study the heart. It can be performed on children, but hospitalisation is necessary as anaesthesia is also required

Back pain: when crises recur over time and become recurrent in the months following the first manifestation, it becomes advisable to consult a specialist: treating back pathologies is very complex and it is necessary to relate to someone…

Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by the sum of several factors, particularly in western countries. These include, on the one hand, the progressive ageing of the population, poor eating habits and the consequent increase in the number…

Gastric bypass is a hormonal restrictive intervention. In other words, it acts on the digestive tract by reducing the production of certain hormones responsible for hunger and increasing the production of others that increase the sense of…

Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder of the gastrointestinal system in the absence of any other specific pathology causing the symptoms.the symptoms can be different, as well as the causes

Sometimes it’s worth wondering if the things we hear, see and feel are quite as we thought they were. Dr Alan Garner has a look at your senses when you get into the chest and wonders whether it’s all as straight forward as we like to think?…