This content is machine translated St. Gallen Breast Cancer Conference Endocrine therapy helps prevent breast cancer Breast cancer can be prevented in healthy women with medication. Studies prove the effectiveness. In some countries, endocrine therapy is approved for this indication. However, acceptance of chemoprevention is generally…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Cardiology Update 2017, Davos Update on atherosclerosis and primary drug prevention. Traditionally held every two years in Davos, Cardiology Update has become one of the most important European cardiology congresses. This year’s topics included the role of inflammation in atherosclerosis and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated AAD Conference in Orlando Psoriasis – head-to-head comparison with clear winner Psoriasis therapy has made great progress in recent years. This is due on the one hand to immunological research into the pathogenesis and the recognition of the systemic nature of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 24th Doctors' Forum, Davos Acute abdomen This year, the Davos Medical Forum once again offered a wealth of practice-relevant topics for primary care providers. The varied program included presentations on common diseases as well as specific…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated East Switzerland Emergency Symposium, St. Gallen Drug interactions – when does it get dangerous? Drug interactions can end dangerously. Family physicians in particular have a lot to do with multimorbid elderly patients. Interactions of the most common drugs should therefore be known.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stroke Therapy “Patients benefit from intervention through the vascular system” At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Cerebrovascular Society SHG, Prof. Jan Gralla, MD, from Inselspital Bern, Switzerland, spoke on “New Approaches in the Intra-arterial Treatment of Acute Stroke.”…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ACTRIMS Forum 2017 in Orlando B-cell-directed therapy under the microscope – what can we expect? At the ACTRIMS Forum 2017, B-cell depletion and thus the recently published results from the ORATORIO study in the New England Journal of Medicine were also on everyone’s lips. Not…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Allergo Update 2017, Berlin Food allergies are often lost, contact allergies remain Allergies are among the most widespread diseases. Most of those affected suffer from hay fever, pollen asthma and contact allergies. In early childhood, apart from atopic eczema, food allergies are…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 56th Continuing Medical Education Course, Davos “State of the art” in cardiovascular prevention and depression. Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading causes of illness and death in Switzerland as well. In turn, atherosclerosis is the most important cause of these diseases. It begins in adolescence or…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Tumor Treating Fields (TTF) What’s the story with the new process? At the 21st meeting of the Society For Neuro-Oncology, presentations included a phase III trial of Tumor Treating Fields (TTF) treatment in newly diagnosed glioblastoma. From ESMO ASIA come results…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ESMO in Copenhagen and Singapore Immunotherapy puts lung cancer experts in turmoil Pembrolizumab returned to the international stage of lung cancer therapy with a thunderclap during the presentation of the KEYNOTE 024 trial at the 2016 ESMO Congress in Copenhagen. Lectures on…