This content is machine translated Rare diseases Building trust and fostering resilience It usually takes a long time before an adequate diagnosis of a rare disease is made. After all, it is not only primary care physicians who lack specific knowledge about…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Successful therapy of pAVD with EGb 761®. Clinical studies document the efficacy of Ginkgo biloba extract Peripheral arterial disease (PAVD) often occurs as a result of atherosclerosis, with varying prevalence depending on age. Men are more commonly affected than women [1], and in two-thirds of all…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mamma Screening Between statistics and casuistry Once again, a health policy bombshell has burst in the Sunday press. The Swiss Medical Board questions systematic breast screening. As was to be expected, the tsunami of outrage arrived…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Diabetes mellitus First Google medical product in development How can one monitor one’s own blood glucose level without great effort and without interpretational difficulties in the evaluation? This is the question that many researchers worldwide are asking themselves…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Sport as medicine What about the evidence? Actually, it is widely known that sport has a positive effect on our health and can also help with diseases. Nevertheless, this is still too little lectured at the decisive…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy against allergic rhinitis Efficacy of butterbur extract Ze 339 repeatedly proven In medicine, too, coincidence sometimes helps: employees of a pharmaceutical company took a butterbur preparation from their company for headaches and as a result suddenly noticed much fewer hay fever…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Dementia National Dementia Strategy 2014-2017 The National Dementia Strategy aims to support those affected by dementia and to implement measures to improve the individual’s quality of life. Patients and families should have access to high-quality…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated That was 2013 News and views around the heart Welcome, dear readers, to the first issue of CARDIOVASC magazine in the new year.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer organizations present results of comprehensive evaluation Excellent marks for the promotion of Swiss cancer research The Swiss Cancer Research Foundation and the Swiss Cancer League do an excellent job in promoting Swiss cancer research. They support research projects of excellent quality, resulting in many significant…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated New series Sports medicine, quo vadis? Sports medicine is becoming increasingly important in family practice, but there is usually a lack of appropriate basic training. In order to close this knowledge gap, Dr. med. Peter Jenoure,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Welcome to the new year! 2014 has begun In the new year, decisions will be made in Switzerland that will affect our healthcare system. For example, the Federal Council’s counter-proposal to the family doctor initiative and the single…