This content is machine translated Sports Medicine Hot Topics for Practice Sport is good for your health, but can too much sport even make you sick? Prof. Dr. Johann Scher, Chief Physician and Head of the University Center for Prevention and…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Diabetes mellitus Focus on research, focus on care At the first hybrid annual meeting of the German Diabetes Association, this year everything revolved around the motto “Hand in hand to the goal – simple.better.measurable”. Around 7000 participants learned…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Head and neck tumors New prognostic models and biomarkers in focus of development Malignant tumors in the head and/or neck area always pose challenges for experts. Immunotherapy can now be used to treat a wide range of cancers, but the response rate often…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Non-melanocytic skin cancer Risk stratification as a basis for targeted intervention Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common skin cancer after basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and the third most common skin tumor is malignant melanoma. The etiology of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Personalized therapy in RA Targeting instead of MTX for all “It is more important to know which person has a disease than to know which disease a person has” – this sentence is attributed to Hippocrates, which means that the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cardiomyopathy From risk to therapy – imaging in individual risk management When we talk about cardiomyopathy, we can be talking about different clinical pictures with different causes and symptoms. The actual cause may be genetic, acquired, or a mixture of both.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Wound Management Case reports of unusual wound infections Changing environmental conditions such as global warming are playing a role in the genesis of new, previously largely unknown infections. Thanks to state-of-the-art routine and specialized microbiological diagnostics such as…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Atrial fibrillation Screening procedures and interventions in pregnancy put to the test Atrial fibrillation remains a common condition that increases with age. Nevertheless, the diagnosis is not infrequently due to chance. Guidelines therefore advocate opportunistic screening starting at age 65. Could this…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Interventional cardiology Current therapeutic standard of complex coronary stenoses If there is a narrowing of one or more coronary arteries, it is called coronary stenosis. The cause is usually atherosclerosis in coronary heart disease. But what to do when…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Type 2 diabetes - update for the family doctor Aim for multifactorial rather than glucocentric treatment With regard to cardiac and renal protection, it is increasingly recommended to combine metformin initially with an SGLT-2 inhibitor or a GLP-1 receptor agonist. In contrast, sulfonylureas and DPP-4 inhibitors…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Test procedure Breast cancer early detection using biomarkers – where do we stand? Early detection of breast cancer still offers the best chance of cure. Mammography is the benchmark for screening, but is subject to technical, logistical, and diagnostic limitations. For this reason,…
