This content is machine translated Chronic inflammatory bowel disease The therapy goal is the control of the disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to relapsing or continuous inflammatory diseases of the intestine. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis belong to this group of forms. “Don’t be afraid of guidelines,”…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Type 2 diabetes therapy Three steps to the goal Firstly, lifestyle measures, secondly metformin, thirdly individualization – according to Prof. Marc Donath, MD, Basel, Switzerland, this is how type 2 diabetics are treated today. Depending on the individual situation,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Questionable financial incentives Swiss surgeons want to prevent abuse with charter The Swiss Surgeons (Swiss Society of Surgery [SGC]), represented by its President Prof. Dr. med. Ralph Alexander Schmid and Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Hubert Steinke, called for a charter…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Multimorbidity The main task of the family doctor is to prioritize Whereas comorbidity focuses on one index disease, multimorbidity has several chronic diseases coexisting at the same time, and the difficulty is to figure out which one is the main problem…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 4th Swiss Forum for Mood and Anxiety Disorders SGAD treatment recommendations for obsessive-compulsive disorder and PTSD. At this year’s Swiss Forum for Mood and Anxiety Disorders of the Swiss Society for Anxiety and Depression (SGAD), Prof. Martin E. Keck, MD, Oetwil am See, presented for the first…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Targeting: Focus on continuing education for family physicians At the third JHaS conference on April 20, 2013, at the Thun Congress Center, prospective family physicians were shown the cornerstones of their professional future prospects through multifaceted lectures, in-depth…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Diabetes during pregnancy Which preparation helps? Almost 9% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes. Recently, new diagnostic criteria have become available. Both insulin and oral antidiabetic agents are available for therapy. At the DIP symposium (The7th…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Genomic tests New options in breast cancer treatment A panel on the effect of the Oncotype DX® genomic test on breast cancer was held in Zurich on March 13 with representatives from various European countries. The event was…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Award ceremony 22nd Pfizer Research Prize 2013 awarded The Pfizer Research Prize, endowed with a total of CHF 105,000, was awarded on February 7, 2013 in Zurich to nine outstanding papers in basic and clinical research in various…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Treatment for resistant hypertension using renal denervation Diabetics could benefit from reduction of sympathetic tone About ten percent of treated hypertensives have high blood pressure that cannot be adequately controlled despite combinations of three or more antihypertensives. These patients may be helped by interrupting sympathetic…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Individual diabetes therapy Patients’ living conditions too seldom a topic of discussion with doctors Individual therapy for type 2 diabetes is now widely recommended. However, if one looks at the extent to which patients’ personal circumstances are discussed in doctor-patient conversations, deficits are apparent,…
