Parkinson’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, slowly progressive, that mainly involves the areas of the brain related to movement and balance. The symptoms of the disease are both at motor and at cognitive level, for example tremble, rigidity, bradykinesia,…
About 125 million people worldwide suffer from psoriasis. The symptoms that characterize this disease may be more or less severe ranging from itch to lesions such as erythematous papules and plaques of different sizes, scurfy scales on the skin, general…
This is the real story of Darek Fidyka, a Polish fireman stabbed in 2010 while he was doing his job. Since that time, when he got the spinal cord injured and remained paralyzed from the waist down, he thought he…
One of the most studied branches of applied science is nanotechnology, which has the aim to design and create devices on a dimensional scale below the nanometer (billionth of a meter). Nanotechnology applies to agriculture, cosmetics, optics and aerospace industry,…
The alarm is never quite persuasive, it cannot convince you to abandon the warm, comfortable bed to face a hard day of work. Every morning, when it rings, the action is simple: you just reach out and it’s done. It…
The Zika virus is an RNA virus, member of the Flaviviridae family, which was found for the first time in Africa in 1947, when it was isolated from a primate (who was in Uganda in the Zika forest, hence the…
Vision is a delicate and complex sense often subject to deterioration due to genetic diseases and external factors that often lead to blindness. Ray Flynn, 80, had completely lost his central vision because of a serious disease, macular degeneration. In…
387 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, a chronic disease of which a complete therapy still doesn’t exist. However, it can be controlled by paying strict and constant attention to diet and by injecting insulin, even though the injections can…
A spinal paralysis can be caused by physical trauma such as falls, gunshots, car accidents or sport injuries, but it can also have non-traumatic causes such as insufficient blood flow, infections or pressure caused by a tumor. Specifically, an injury…
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