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…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Alzheimer Congress in Toronto Neuropsychiatric symptoms as precursors of dementia In July, the Alzheimer’s Association held its first international congress (AAIC 2016). More than 5000 experts and researchers from 70 countries gathered in Toronto to share news and study results…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 98th Annual Meeting of the SGDV Lesions of the oral mucosa and new technologies for topical therapies. This year’s congress of the Swiss Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SGDV) took place in Geneva at the end of August. Apart from the key lectures on important topics and…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated "Time is brain" also applies to MS Treatment as early as possible improves prognosis in multiple sclerosis In recent years, the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has changed dramatically: Various new agents have come onto the market that improve the prognosis of many MS patients and enhance…
