This content is machine translated Functional gastrointestinal disorders Women and men of all ages benefit from the peppermint/caraway oil combination After Madisch et al. provided convincing evidence for a proprietary combination of peppermint and caraway oil for functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) in a meta-analysis, Storr et al. recently conducted a...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Schizophrenia Advantages of depot supply in daily practice Adherence can be a challenge for patients with severe mental disorders. The majority of people with schizophrenia do not take their medication as prescribed. However, the fact is that a…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Community-acquired pneumonia Prospective study in primary care Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases with high mortality and morbidity worldwide. In a study in France, clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with radiologically confirmed...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Uncontrolled type 2 diabetes Empagliflozin as an effective addition to triple therapies In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), a balanced glucose concentration is mainly achieved through drug therapies. If blood glucose control remains poor despite a triple combination of oral hypoglycaemic...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Epilepsy What to do if the therapy does not work? Around 60 million people worldwide are affected by epilepsy, the third most common neurological disorder. Up to 70% of patients can be effectively helped with initial therapy management and their…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – polycystic liver disease Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is characterized by multiple, usually progressively increasing cysts of the liver. It is the most common extrarenal manifestation of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). The...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Rare diseases Wolfram syndrome The term “DIDMOAD” syndrome – an acronym for the characteristic symptoms – serves as an alternative name for this autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease, which was first described in 1938: Diabetes...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Journal Club CVD: Update on risk factors and prevention Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has a high prevalence worldwide and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Several secondary analyses have been published in the past two years. While Magnussen et...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – panniculitis Panniculitis can be classified as lobular or septal, depending on the main site of inflammation in the fat. In mesenteric panniculitis, magnetic resonance imaging is the method of choice to…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Rare diseases Syringomyelia – multiple symptoms make diagnosis difficult Syringomyelia is a rare disease that develops due to a disturbance of cerebrospinal fluid flow (CSF) and is often due to obstruction of the subarachnoid space of the spinal column.…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer Management of locally advanced NSCLC – where are we heading? Lung cancer is the second most common and deadliest type of cancer worldwide. Clinically, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common pathologic form of lung cancer; approximately one-third…
