This content is machine translated Update Refresher Internal Medicine “Fat kills” – or is it? At the Update Refresher Internal Medicine, the two cardiologists from the Stadtspital Triemli Prof. Dr. med. Franz Eberli and PD Dr. med. David Kurz discussed news and views from current…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronic hepatitis C New drugs are expensive, but cure many patients Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most common causes of advanced liver disease and liver transplantation in Switzerland. For people with chronic HCV infection, however, the situation has improved…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Annual meeting of the neurological society Headaches: sometimes anything but trivial The annual meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society was held in Bern at the end of October 2015. In a series of lectures, various causes of headaches were presented and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated SGML Congress 2016 State of the art in scar therapy and non-ionizing radiation. Speakers from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Korea and Switzerland met again at the Hilton Airport Hotel at the beginning of the year to gather news and views from the field of…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 1st Swiss Symposium on Psychosomatics Fatigue – fate of our time? At the 1st Swiss Symposium for Psychosomatics at the Giesserei in Zurich-Oerlikon, the topic was “Exhaustion, Burnout and the Tired Society”. Are we really getting more and more tired and…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 11th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Bipolar Disorders Comorbidity between bipolar disorder and addiction Addictive behaviors are more common in patients with bipolar disorder than in the general population. Not only the risk for alcohol and tobacco addiction, but also for behavioral addictions such…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated AHA Congress 2015 in Orlando Big News: Do we need to rethink blood pressure targets? The dominant topic at the AHA Congress was the SPRINT trial and its implications for future hypertension treatment. Is it prognostically meaningful to target lower systolic blood pressure values in…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated SGPP - Personalized medicine in psychiatry Expansion of diagnostic spectrum and therapy The more precise the diagnosis, the more successful the therapy. This principle also applies in the field of psychiatry. But the road to a precise diagnosis is still long. Current…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Rapid start of therapy, intensive controls Strong helpers against rheumatoid arthritis At the Update Refresher General Internal Medicine, Michael Andor, MD, Center for Spine Medicine PRODORSO, Zurich, provided information on the current therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The treatment of RA…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Update Refresher General Internal Medicine Tips and tricks for gastroenterological issues At the Update Refresher General Internal Medicine, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for various gastroenterological diseases were discussed. Among other things, the common clinical pictures of chronic constipation and diarrhea were…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer Therapy Strategies to maintain bone health Adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer has adverse effects on bone health. Possible consequences are treatment-induced osteopenia, osteoporosis and fractures. It is known that antiresorptive substances such as bisphosphonates counteract…
