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112RESCUE is a new event set up to highlight all aspects of rescue, fire safety and public safety activities

Impulse Control Disorders are a recently recognized diagnostic category. Disorders such as pathological gambling, pyromania, kleptomania, and intermittent explosive disorder have only been diagnosed with DSM III (American Psychiatric…

De Quervain syndrome – also known as stenosing tenosynovitis – is an inflammatory process affecting the synovial sheath of the extensor brevis and abductor pollicis longus tendons

Pyelonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidney and renal pelvis that can be acute or chronic. The disease is often associated with a more or less extensive infection of the organ parenchyma

The cardiac pacemaker is a tiny small device which, surgically implanted, is capable of correcting heart rhythm disturbances; intervenes when it perceives that the heart is beating too fast, too slow or there is a discontinuous beat

Women suffering from bladder prolapse may complain of various symptoms ranging from a feeling of discomfort in the pelvic area after standing for a long time, to bladder dysfunction such as urinary incontinence or difficulty emptying the…

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of adulthood, caused by the loss of spinal, bulbar and cortical motor neurons, which leads to paralysis of voluntary muscles up to and including respiratory…

Rheumatisms, or rheumatic diseases, are pathologies characterized by a local or generalized inflammatory state mainly affecting joints, ligaments, tendons, bones, muscles; rarely, the inflammation can extend and also affect the internal…

Brugada syndrome is a disease that most commonly affects young males in adulthood. The genetic defect is in proteins that control the entry of sodium into the cardiac cell

The once-used term 'sexual perversion' or 'sexual deviation' has been replaced by the scientific term 'paraphilia' from the Greek 'filìa' (attraction) and 'para' (deviation), i.e. attraction to abnormal or bizarre sexual behaviour