This content is machine translated Mepolizumab as an add-on therapeutic for severe CRSwNP. Symptomatic improvement with good tolerability Approximately 2-4% of the general population is affected by chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) [1]. Treatment options were very limited for a long time, but since the approval of…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Asthma therapy The mild bronchial asthma Bronchial asthma is a heterogeneous, multifactorial disease characterized by chronic airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Not only the symptomatology, but also the airway obstruction is variable in time course and…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Chemo in hospice? Systems therapies for metastatic NSCLC in poor general health. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the cancer with the highest mortality worldwide, with two-thirds of cases detected only at locally advanced or metastatic stages. Unfortunately, recommendations for patients with… CME-Test
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Lung cancer New approach to predicting the response of immunotherapies At Tübingen University Hospital, a preclinical study led by Dr. Clemens Hinterleitner and Prof. Dr. Lars Zender, Medical Director of Medical Oncology and Pneumology, led to extremely promising results. The…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Glimmer of hope in the pandemic Protein ZAP inhibits proliferation of SARS-CoV-2 by 20-fold Scientists at the Würzburg-based Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig demonstrate for the first time how ZAP, a protein…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Relvar Ellipta improves asthma control [1]. Asthma control is and remains the non-negotiable therapeutic goal Today, fluticasone furoate is the most potent inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) with the highest therapeutic index available to date [2,3]. It is a component of Relvar Ellipta along with vilanterol. Daley-Yates…
This content is machine translated Podcast Prevention and therapy of respiratory diseases Especially in times of the Corona pandemic, we have learned that prevention is the best therapy of any respiratory infection, because prevention measures do not only apply in the case… CME-Test
This content is machine translated Video Prevention and therapy of respiratory diseases Especially in times of the Corona pandemic, we have learned that prevention is the best therapy of any respiratory infection, because prevention measures do not only apply in the case…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated A portrait of malignant pleural mesothelioma A disease at its peak Exposure to asbestos until 1990 is taking its toll – including the still-increasing number of malignant pleural mesotheliomas in Switzerland. The life expectancy of those affected is extremely low at…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Respiratory Vitamin D brings small benefit In 2017, a meta-analysis of data from 25 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of vitamin D supplementation for the prevention of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) found a protective effect of this…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer The role of adjuvant EGFR TKIs. Over the past several years, tyrosine kinase inhibitors directed against EGFR have gained acceptance as first-line treatment for advanced NSCLC with EGFR mutation. However, their role in adjuvant therapy of…
