Traumatic Brain Injury as a Public Health Issue: Epidemiology, Prognostic Factors and Useful Data from Forensic Practice.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major public health problem, being a leading cause of disability and mortality among young people in developed countries. Head trauma occurs across all age groups, each experiencing consistently high rates of mortality and disability. This review aims to present an overview of TBI epidemiology and its socioeconomic impact, alongside data valuable for prevention, clinical management, and research efforts.

Moral Strangers, Markets and Secular Bioethics according to H. T. Engelhardt.

H.T. Engelhardt's reflections on bioethics show his vision of a correlation between liberalism and biopolitics expressed in the person as a proprietary conception of the body, the result of a link between liberal thought and the free market economic system.

Medico-legal considerations in immediate loading implantology: risks, responsibilities, and best practices.

The field of immediate loading implantology has grown rapidly, offering quicker solutions for prosthetic rehabilitation. However, the complexity of this technique raises significant medico-legal concerns regarding patient safety, treatment planning, and professional liability. These issues are particularly relevant in elective procedures where failure could lead to litigation.

Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013 laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation: medico-legal and legal-comparative study.

This paper is a scientific contribution on basic safety standards, related to protection against hazards arising from exposure to ionizing radiation: medico-legal issues resulting from the research of the University of Campania and the study conducted by the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology are reported.

COVID-19 Risk Management: a Survey among Italian physicians.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant global impact on public health. The increasing demand for intensive care and the closure of several health facilities has led to a reduction in the assistance of non-COVID patients. In our study, we investigated what changes health professionals have experienced in their professional activities and how they coped with them.