App improves medication adherence for cardiac stent patients

According to a recent study, a tablet app helped heart patients with drug-eluting stents take their medications correctly. The researchers found that patients in the intervention group examined had a 10 percent higher medication use outcome than patients in the control group.

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Nasal polyposis: symptoms and treatment

Nasal polyps are small, noncancerous, teardrop-shaped cell proliferations that develop on the nasal and sinus mucosa. The characteristic symptoms of nasal polyposis are due to the progressive growth of these

Chromotherapy: the importance of colors for a person’s mental and physical well-being

Colors have always been a part of all people’s lives. Some fascinate us, such as those that artists pour onto their canvases in the creation of their masterpieces, others frighten

Vaginal candidiasis

Vaginal candidiasis infection is a fungal infection that causes irritation, discharge, and intense itching of the vagina and vulva; it is also called vaginal candidiasis and usually every woman has been affected at least a few times in her lifetime.

The use of the cannabis plant for medicinal purposes.

For centuries and especially in some latitudes, cannabis, understood as a medicinal and healing herb has been an effective remedy. In recent years many people use it to reduce symptoms and treat many diseases.

Time change: the effects on the gut

The transition from daylight saving time to daylight saving time and vice versa causes some transient discomfort for many people, especially in terms of resynchronization of sleep-wake rhythms and mealtimes,

Two nocturnal enemies: insomnia and scorching heat

Insomnia is already in itself a significant disorder that alters in people the sphere of habits, family relationships, and even the psychological sphere with considerable influence on mood and emotions.

Dental abscess: treatment and remedies

Have you noticed that you have a dental abscess? In this article you will find out what it is specifically, what causes this problem and what remedies you can use

Blocked carotid arteries: when to intervene?

Obstruction of the carotid arteries (they carry blood and oxygen to the brain) can be treated with medication or by resorting to surgery. Tips for “cleaning” the vessels and preventing

How to protect wounds?

If wounds are present protect yourself from infection by wearing latex gloves. If these are not available, use layers of gauze pads or a plastic garment. To figure out where

Great physicians of antiquity: Galen

Galen, (he was born in Pergamon in 129 A.D. ,and died in 201) devoted his life to the knowledge and dissemination of Medicine in the Greek world, passing on his knowledge until the beginning of the Renaissance.

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Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the Western world. In the United States it affects about three million people; in Italy, an estimated 600-700 thousand people

Heart failure

Heart failure corresponds to a condition in which the heart is unable to receive and/or pump blood with sufficient force to the lungs and the rest of the body, due

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans is a vascular disease that affects the arteries, especially those in the legs, preventing the muscles and tissues from receiving adequate blood supply, resulting in symptoms of

Myocardial infarction

Acute myocardial infarction, which affects about 100,000 people in Italy each year, corresponds to the death of a part of the heart muscle due to an interruption in the supply

Coronaropathy

The term coronary artery disease refers to chronic “distress” of the coronary arteries, the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle, in most cases brought about by atherosclerotic pathology

Aortic aneurysm

An aortic aneurysm refers to permanent dilatation of a well-defined segment of the aorta, the largest artery in the body that receives blood directly from the left ventricle and distributes

Ventricular hypertrophy

Ventricular hypertrophy is a condition characterized by thickening and a loss of elasticity of the walls of the left ventricle (i.e., the left lower chamber of the heart), which thus

Mitral valve repair

Repair of an insufficient/deteriorated mitral valve can be done: Removing the malfunctioning segments of the valve leaflets; implanting “synthetic cords” (which replace the broken or “stretched” natural ones of the

Blow to the heart

A “heart murmur” is not in itself a pathology , but merely a signal that the blood inside the heart is flowing too fast or in a “disordered” manner, producing

Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a pathological process that leads to the progressive formation of localized deposits composed mainly of fat and cholesterol and platelets (atheromas or atherosclerotic plaques) within the walls of

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