This content is machine translated Muscle injuries Despite good prognosis, muscle injuries should be taken seriously Muscles play a very important role in the whole organism with 40-50% of the total body weight and their (besides mechanical) somewhat less known metabolic functions. In sports, probably with…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Light skin cancer What is the risk of a second tumor? Patients with basal cell carcinoma or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma often develop non-melanocytic skin cancer again in the follow-up period. The aim of a US study was to determine the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Sports injuries, illnesses and fatalities Is top-level sport healthy at all? The fact that regular balanced physical activity – i.e. sport – has innumerable positive health effects may be regarded as well known. It was also convincingly shown that the effort…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Benign thyroid nodules What diagnostic and preventive steps are indicated? Benign small nodules in the thyroid gland are common. Since the (mostly incidental) detection of such asymptomatic nodules has also increased in recent years, the question arises as to how…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Depression Different preparations with good effect A number of St. John’s wort preparations are registered in Switzerland, which do not differ significantly in composition. Only a minority of them are allowed to be used in the…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stomach cancer One-third fewer cases of disease through eradication? Approximately 90% of all gastric cancer cases are associated with Helicobacter pylori infections. Eradication of these pathogens in healthy asymptomatic individuals or in the general population appears to reduce the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Vulnerable body sites in sports traumatology The sportsman and his Achilles heel If one had to define a particular weak point in the athlete, a so-called locus minoris resistentiae, then the heel and the Achilles tendon attached to it would certainly be…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated How does the immunochemical test perform in colorectal cancer screening? Mortality reduction is seen earlier than with guaiac-based assays Screening programs using the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) for early detection of colorectal cancer are known to result in a reduction in disease-specific mortality. Testing methods based on…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Book tip Modern aviation medicine Since the first attempts several hundred years ago, aviation has developed into a rapidly advancing field of activity, which today has not only become extremely complex in terms of technology,…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer Three-dimensional tumor models as a prognostic tool Using so-called spheroid models of breast tumors, German researchers have been able to predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with great accuracy. This method is based on the “replication” of…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Young cancer patients Intensive treatment until death A cross-sectional study from California shows: Young patients with cancer receive very intensive medical care (chemotherapy, hospitalizations, emergency room or intensive care unit admissions) in the last months and even…
