This content is machine translated 25th EADV Congress in Vienna Progress in melanoma treatment: more success with combination therapies Just a few years ago, metastatic melanoma was rapidly fatal – but today the disease responds frequently and long-term to new drug therapies. Experts reported on advances in melanoma therapy…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dermatology training week in Munich There will be no change in skin cancer screening in Germany In Germany, the number of skin cancer cases has been increasing for many years. The incidence is currently over 200,000 per year, including approximately 20,000 malignant melanomas. The number of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated National Psoriasis Day 2016 Current systemic treatments and Swiss guidelines The revolution in systemic psoriasis therapy began with the introduction of anti-TNF treatment after the turn of the millennium. Since then, the chain of further new psoriasis drug launches has…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated SGBS Symposium Bipolar 2016 in Zurich Grasping the complexity of bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder has many faces. These are clinically relevant because they influence response to drug and psychosocial treatments. When bipolar disorder is actually present, how it is differentiated from other…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated SGAMPSP 14th Annual Meeting Pharmacotherapy: Optimize benefits, minimize risks The SGAMSP Annual Meeting in Liestal focused on the psychological and physical factors in the course of the disease. Particularly in polymorbid patients treated with psychotropic and somatic medications, there…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ECTRIMS Hot Topic Session The role of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in MS. In recent years, impressive results have been published on autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple sclerosis. In a pro-con debate at the 32nd Congress of the European…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Medidays Zurich 2016 Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia – how to treat? At Medidays Zurich 2016, the advanced training for general internal medicine in practice and hospital, Alzheimer’s dementia was a topic: its pathology is very complex and a causal therapy is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated A call to action was made at the European Congress of Cardiologists Prevention of obesity in children Childhood and adolescent obesity is the precursor to cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adulthood. About one third of all children and adolescents in the USA are affected, and about 10%…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 26th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection In which patients is orthostatic hypotension to be expected? The ESH annual meeting also addressed orthostatic hypotension and how to become aware of the phenomenon in everyday practice. In an update to a study presented at last year’s Congress,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Collagenoses at EULAR 2016 New disease-modifying therapeutic approaches in systemic sclerosis. At the EULAR congress in London, one of the topics was the treatment of collagenoses and in particular early diffuse systemic sclerosis. New approaches that have the potential to act…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Update atopic dermatitis 2016 An adapted 4-step therapy scheme is recommended Based on new research findings, atopic dermatitis is increasingly proving to be a heterogeneous disease with a very complex pathogenesis. Great attention has recently been paid to interactions between skin…
