This content is machine translated COPD and comorbidities Exacerbation frequency is associated with cardiopulmonary disease burden Exacerbation severity and frequency are crucial for the prognosis of COPD, but also appear to have a major impact on the course of comorbidities. There is a growing body of...…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated IBD and SARS-CoV-2 Vulnerable at the mercy of others While COVID-19 mRNA vaccines induce a robust systemic immune response in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), little is known about their efficacy in the mucosal immune system. Researchers have...…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) Best possible serotype coverage in the respective age group The disease burden of pneumococcal infections is highest in <5-year-old children and ≥65-year-old adults, as well as in the presence of certain comorbidities and in immunocompromised individuals. In Switzerland, there...…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Rare pulmonary syndromes Yellow nail and Swyer-James syndrome Yellow nail syndrome (YNS) is a rare disease associated with yellowing of the nails, pulmonary manifestations and lymphoedema. A clinical examination and examination of the fingernails can provide valuable information...… CME-Test
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Vaccinations against viral respiratory infections Influenza, Covid-19 and RSV – Update 2025 The Swiss Vaccination Plan 2025 recommends passive immunization of infants with a monoclonal antibody or vaccination of pregnant women with a recombinant vaccine against RSV. RSV vaccination should also be...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated COPD exacerbations Fast therapy initiation is not much better than expected Studies have shown that the immediate initiation of inhaled triple therapy with a single inhaler immediately after a COPD exacerbation achieves better therapeutic effects than delayed initiation. However, Canadian scientists...…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Lung cancer with EGFR mutation New perspectives in first-line therapy At this year’s IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2025) in Barcelona, a poster on the FLAURA2 study was presented, which presented new data on combination therapy with osimertinib...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Acute sinusitis: real-world study on first-line therapy Focusing on a rational therapeutic approach beyond antibiotics A retrospective cohort study published in 2024 analyzed data from patients with acute sinusitis in routine care. On the one hand, it was found that over 70% of patients received...…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated COPD therapy Drug therapy – Update 2025 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD) is a chronic inflammatory multisystem disease caused primarily by inhaled noxious substances in combination with environmental factors and genetic predispositions. The presence of such...… CME-Test
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dyspnea – thoracic lymphoma The spectrum of possible causes of lymph node swelling is broad and includes numerous acute and chronic diseases, including lymphoproliferative diseases and malignancies. In more than half of the cases,...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Interstitial lung diseases Artificial intelligence improves ILD diagnosis The diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) can be difficult, especially in the early stages when pulmonary function tests (PFTs) show only minor changes. To improve the effectiveness of early...…
