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…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Shoulder pain in practice Is it a “frozen shoulder”? A workshop at Medidays in Zurich dealt with the topic of shoulder pain. How can the most common clinical pictures be diagnosed and, above all, differentiated by means of history,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Age skin The old skin is prone to skin diseases The external application of plant leaves on the skin in the form of dressings that promote healing is very old as a basic principle. According to Oliver Das, MD, Zurich,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Diseases of the prostate What is the potential of phytotherapy? At the 29th Swiss Annual Conference on Phytotherapy in Winterthur, the question was posed as to what possibilities phytotherapeutic approaches offer in the therapy of benign prostate syndrome, prostatitis or…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated New insights into Alzheimer's diagnostics Nose and eyes offer diagnostically promising possibilities Important advances are emerging in Alzheimer’s diagnostics. Soon, low-cost eye and smell tests could be included in early diagnosis. Several studies on this were presented at the AAIC Congress in Copenhagen.…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Stroke Symposium at the Inselspital Bern Still many unknowns in the management of cerebral hemorrhage On August 21, 2014, a stroke symposium was held at the Inselspital in Bern, organized by the University Department of Neurology. The first presentations focused on the structure and certification of…
