This content is machine translated Glioblastoma and brain metastases Immune system can be harnessed A study at the ESMO Symposium in Geneva shows: Brain metastases have dense concentrations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, i.e., an immune-active environment. Second, both primary and secondary brain carcinomas cause high…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology What does the zebrafish do better than us? In the course of the 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) in Berlin, a press conference was held to discuss the extent to which modern dialysis…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Cholesterol Management Impressive results of PCSK9 inhibitors Cholesterol management was the subject of discussion at the Prevention Summit at the University Hospital Zurich. The new lipid guidelines from the AHA/ACC are generating a lot of criticism. This…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Skin Cancer Congress Research projects with exciting implications The 24th German Skin Cancer Congress took place in Frankfurt am Main from September 11-13, 2014. In the following, some interesting casuistics, cohort, retro- and prospective studies from different German…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Update Oncology at Medidays Cancer screening, lymphoma and multiple myeloma As part of Medidays, the week-long internal medicine training program of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), one afternoon was also devoted to various oncology topics. In multiple myeloma and diffuse…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated First Swiss Cancer Congress A sign of growing togetherness A network is only as sustainable as its individual nodes and connections. The oncology scene in Switzerland is aware of this and the idea of better networking is not new.…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Auto-inflammatory diseases in childhood Recurrent episodes of fever as the main symptom Auto-inflammatory diseases are characterized by an increased systemic inflammatory response and are mediated by cells of the innate immune system. Children and adolescents are particularly affected. Typical for these altogether…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Interactions with drugs Most interactions are known and therefore avoidable What happens when two or more medications are taken at the same time? The answer is: there may be an increase or decrease in drug effects. In some cases this…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Therapy of chronic recurrent pyoderma Erysipelas and boils carry a high risk of recurrence At the 96th Annual Meeting of the SGDV in Basel, one of the topics was bacterial skin infections. Antibiotics remain first-line treatment options for both erysipelas and furunculosis. Beyond that,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Acute myeloid leukemia Treatment options for non-intensively treatable patients. At the EHA Congress in Milan, experts discussed treatment options for patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Elderly patients in particular continue to have a poor prognosis under intensive chemotherapy. Allogeneic…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Pain management When the warning function is missing, but the pain remains At the EULAR congress in Paris, the question of what types of pain there are and how chronic, long-lasting pain can be treated was addressed. While normal acute pain is…
