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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE & WELLNESS

Hypertension: A “silent killer”

When do we say that a person suffers from high blood pressure or arterial hypertension? Blood pressure is the pressure that our blood exerts on the heart and blood vessels or more generally on our cir...

Melanoma: everything we need to know

Melanoma is a malignant skin tumor, the most dangerous and the most deadly. It originates from melanocytes, the cells that produce melanin, and appears on the skin, while in rare cases it can appear i...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome or More Simply “Spastic Colitis..”

Irritable bowel syndrome is a disease entity characterized by chronic abdominal pain and disturbances in bowel habits, without any organic cause having been identified. It is the most common disease o...

Bronchial Asthma

What is bronchial asthma? Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. It is a reaction of the airways to various triggers, such as various allergens, cold air, smoke, pollution, ex...

Lung cancer screening

The prevention of lung cancer through screening follows the established standards of prevention of other malignancies, such as breast cancer and colon cancer. The logic of screening is based on early ...

Pneumonia: Everything we need to know

Pneumonia is the respiratory infection with the highest mortality rate worldwide, as in 2019 alone, 2.5 million deaths due to pneumonia were recorded, of which 672,000 were children. In Greece, approx...

The importance of prevention and early treatment of colon cancer

Colorectal cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in both men and women. And although our studies show that mortality has been falling in the last 20 years due to improved treatment regimens, colorectal...

New drugs against obesity

Obesity is associated with serious comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, cardiovascular diseases, increased risk of malignancies, while significantly reducing the duration and quality o...