This content is machine translated Dementia Risky sport football!? Is the mortality rate caused by neurodegenerative diseases actually increased in professional football players? This was the conclusion of a retrospective cohort study recently published in The New England Journal.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Psychooncology Strengthen doctor-patient relationship The diagnosis of “cancer” catches most people unprepared and leaves behind uncertainties and fears. A gentle conversation adapted to the person affected can strengthen the doctor-patient relationship in the long…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Update vaccination schedule 2019 Pneumococcal vaccination newly recommended as basic vaccination As part of a 2019 revision of the Swiss vaccination schedule, pneumococcal vaccination for under-5s was added to the list of basic vaccinations. This reassessment is based on an evaluation…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Measles vaccination Dealing with vaccination skepticism The topic of vaccination skepticism has become the focus of media and health policy in connection with an increase in measles cases in recent months. In debates about vaccinations, different…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Tumor-associated thromboembolism Oral anticoagulation with NOAKs? Tumor-associated thromboembolism can have fatal consequences. Therefore, effective anticoagulation is indicated in the acute situation and as recurrence prophylaxis. Currently, heparins are recommended. Can NOAKs also be used?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Juvenile Oncology Keeping an eye on the late effects Even if children survive a malignancy, they are still at risk. Late effects resulting from therapy should not be taken lightly.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy against erectile dysfunction Medicinal plants with some efficacy It was almost a sensation when the Pfizer company launched sildenafil, originally intended as an active ingredient for coronary heart disease, as a drug for erectile dysfunction in 1998. Sildenafil…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune diseases Fatigue in Lupus and Co. A recent study shows that not only lupus erythematosus is characterized by fatigue symptoms, but also other autoimmune diseases with cutaneous involvement.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Antidepressants New therapeutic options through particles of the HI virus? Researchers use a molecule from the HI virus to introduce an antidepressant protein directly into nerve cells. The therapeutic effect in the mouse model is significantly faster and stronger than…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Bacterial meningitis Central nervous system survival strategy of pneumococci identified. Meningitis caused by pneumococcus accounts for approximately 0.6% of all deaths worldwide, placing it in the top ten list of infections worldwide. An international research team has now gained important…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Psoriasis Psoriatics are more often mentally ill That there is a positive correlation between psoriasis and depression has been known for some time. As a recent epidemiological study from Denmark shows, other mental disorders also have higher…
