Health

A frequent ailment that can affect everyone, from professional runners to... ambulance workers, also due to the 'wrong' shoes

Broken or cracked ribs: a blow to the chest during a football match with friends or a walk in the mountains, but also a fall during housework; then pain in the ribs and shortness of breath

When patients with acute stroke symptoms are treated on a mobile stroke unit (MSU) and receive anti-clot medication faster, they have less disability at 90 days, reported a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by…

Broken heart syndrome, a life-threatening condition whose symptoms mimic a heart attack, is on the upswing, according to new research that shows the sharpest increases among women 50 and older

Diabetes, or diabetes mellitus, is a chronic condition caused by an individual's inability to produce his or her daily requirement of insulin, a hormone from the pancreas that regulates the level of sugar (glucose, which is a kind of fuel…

Paediatrics, childhood tumours: a team of researchers from the Sapienza University of Rome have succeeded in demonstrating the efficacy of two drugs for the suppression of MYCN tumour cells, the origin of neuroblastoma and childhood…

In Italy, 23% of women over 40 and 14% of men over 60 suffer from osteoporosis; it affects an estimated 5,000,000 Italians, 80% of whom are post-menopausal women

In the last year there has been a boom in the number of minors entering emergency rooms for neuropsychiatric reasons

Tenolysis is a surgical procedure that aims to free the tendons from surrounding adhesions in order to restore their gliding and thus digital movement. Physiotherapy may be used prior to surgery to remove these adhesions and restore…

The importance of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: over 400,000 people in Europe suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest every year, 60,000 in Italy alone