This content is machine translated Allergology What has happened in diagnostics and therapy? Allergies are an everyday topic in family practice. Until the beginning of this millennium, it was assumed that about one third of the western population suffers from an allergy, be…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Allergic diseases Symptomatic therapy is fast and well effective The treatment of allergic diseases, regardless of the triggering source resp. of the agent, is based on three principles: avoidance, symptomatic treatment, and allergen-specific treatments such as specific immunotherapy. Most…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy against allergic rhinitis Efficacy of butterbur extract Ze 339 repeatedly proven In medicine, too, coincidence sometimes helps: employees of a pharmaceutical company took a butterbur preparation from their company for headaches and as a result suddenly noticed much fewer hay fever…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated On the occasion of the European Antibiotics Day New algorithm helps distinguish viral and bacterial sore throats Mr. and Mrs. Swiss swallow sore throat medicines for several million Swiss francs every year. They often treat the pain with antibiotics, even though up to 80% of sore throats…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Highlights of the 8th Dermato-Allergological Course of the SGDV What’s new in diagnostics and therapy? In Basel, experts from various fields of dermatology and allergology discussed, among other things, the innovations in the classification and therapy of urticaria, modern testing methods in the field of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Pediatric dermatology Genetics does not replace the clinical view The large number of already known genetic causes of dermatological diseases could lead to the conclusion that in the future diagnoses will be made by genetic analysis alone. However, the…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated HER2-positive breast cancer and lymphoma New applications and antibodies The antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab emtansine, T-DM1 (Kadcyla®), is composed of the antibody trastuzumab and the chemotherapeutic agent DM1 and is currently being investigated for the treatment of HER2-positive cancers. It…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Juvenile idiopathic arthritis Aggressive combination therapy leads to faster disease inactivity Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), also called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, is a collective term for several forms of arthritis, all of which involve chronic long-term joint inflammation. This inflammation begins in…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Apremilast PDE4 inhibition in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. The PDE-4 inhibitor apremilast was discussed as a potential option in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis at this year’s ACR Congress in San Diego. Promising results show good efficacy both…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Psoriatic Arthritis Therapeutic options and results There are increasing signs of success in the treatment not only of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but also of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). At the ACR Congress in San Diego, researchers were…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Fibromyalgia Pregabalin concurrently with antidepressants? In the treatment of fibromyalgia, pregabalin may also be used during concurrent therapy with antidepressants. This is shown by new research findings presented at this year’s ACR Congress in San…
