Is it OK to breastfeed with a fever? Scientists say it's not a case of "can", but "must". During an infection, the milk is even more rich in antibodies and white corpuscles, both of which are essential in developing the baby's immune system. The only time when the mother shouldn't breastfeed is if the fever is making her feel weak.

Bruises can be the result of that classic bang to the knee, foot or muscle, and are one of the most common orthopedic injuries of day-to-day life. Also known as contusions, they can often be associated with hematomas, which is reddening of the skin caused by blood collecting in the area of the body where the blow was sustained.

Burns are not only caused by heat. Corrosive chemicals such as caustic soda and hydrochloric acid, and also sunshine, can also burn the skin. Their severity depends on the size of the injury, which part of the body is affected, and how it is caused.

Deaths due to heart attack are declining. But not among young people, who are consuming growing amounts of cocaine. The white powder is the most vasoconstrictive of all drugs, and some scientists say it can permanently change the anatomy of the brain.

As there aren't any existing studies to support colonic irrigation, it's been consigned to the area of alternative medicine, but its importance is fundamental to the health of our whole body.

25% of girls with diabetes between 13-18 who use insulin therapy suffer from diabulimia. It's an eating disorder that's been renamed "slimming with diabetes", sometimes with serious consequences. The term diabulimia merges the words "diabetes" and "bulimia", and is linked to the fear of taking insulin because of the worry of putting on weight.

What do disinfectants used for preventing wound infections contain? There are 2 main solutions on offer by chemical science: sodium hypochlorite, the first modern disinfectant used during the First World War, and hydrogen peroxide.

For ten years, from 2004 to 2014, donor conception, a type of assisted fertilization using gametes from a third-party donor, was banned in Italy under law no. 40. Today it is allowed, provided certain requirements are met.

Time passes, habits and lifestyles change, but biological ageing never stops. In women, fertility declines and eventually ends after the age of 45. Things aren't much better for men.