This content is machine translated Hypertension and heart failure The small vessels play the decisive role Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for the development of heart failure. At the same time, hypertension is strongly involved in the development of atherosclerosis and thus…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated VZI Symposium 2017 What helps against menopausal symptoms? At the symposium of the Association of General and Specialized Internists Zurich (VZI), KD Stephanie von Orelli, MD, gave an overview of the current diagnostic and therapeutic standard in women…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Care of epilepsy patients An EMU for the Epilepsy Center of Eastern Switzerland The Epilepsy Center of the Clinic for Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen offers comprehensive medical care for epilepsy patients in Eastern Switzerland. Long-term EEGs can now also be…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Diabetes Update Refresher The screening method should be simple To diagnose diabetes, there are several methods with certain advantages and disadvantages. Given that today one in two adults with diabetes remains undiagnosed, screening is strongly recommended for individuals 40…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Rehabilitation for MOH “What’s that headache doing to me?” Frequent, regular use of analgesics often has the paradoxical effect of inducing chronic headache. Prof. Peter Sandor, MD, gave a presentation on this topic at the SGKN Congress in Basel…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated DGHO Congress, Leipzig New treatment options for renal cell carcinoma and multiple myeloma Guidelines are intended to help introduce uniform standards with recommendations based on evidence-based data for diagnostics, therapy and follow-up care. At the annual meeting of the German, Austrian, and Swiss…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated CDK4/6 inhibitors New class of drugs for breast cancer Adding the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to letrozole improved progression-free survival in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer, researchers reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated General Internal Medicine Update Refresher Psychiatry and pneumology in focus Psychiatric emergencies with states of agitation, burnout, ADHD in adulthood, chronic cough, sleep apnea – experts brought the participants of the continuing education event “General Internal Medicine Update Refresher” up…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Search for causes obesity How brain and adipose tissue communicate By bringing together research fields that were previously pursued independently, such as neuroscience, metabolism and diabetology, and psychology, knowledge is also growing for diseases as complex as human obesity. Dr.…
View Post 4 min 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…
