This content is machine translated Multimorbidity The main task of the family doctor is to prioritize Whereas comorbidity focuses on one index disease, multimorbidity has several chronic diseases coexisting at the same time, and the difficulty is to figure out which one is the main problem…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Travel medicine Do you know which vaccinations are necessary and which are recommended? Not all vaccinations that are recommended are really necessary and useful for every patient. A detailed review of vaccinations for travel has recently been published [1]; this article characterizes the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated To the point Quo vadis medicus… Apparently, the working conditions at the hospitals have massively deteriorated for the young residents. For many, the 50-hour week is at the limit of what is feasible. The work involved…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Targeting: Focus on continuing education for family physicians At the third JHaS conference on April 20, 2013, at the Thun Congress Center, prospective family physicians were shown the cornerstones of their professional future prospects through multifaceted lectures, in-depth…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Study meeting Sport and statins In the Lancet, American authors published the results of a study in which more than 10,000 male patients, former veterans, with a diagnosis of dyslipidemia were examined. These subjects, with…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated How to treat diabetes? This is how the music of the future sounds Some new drugs and new techniques are expected to improve glycemic control in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. In addition to proper medication selection, a patient-centered approach is essential.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Diabetes “Better care for patients thanks to personalized therapy” Prof. Oliver Schnell, MD, is concerned that more and more people are developing diabetes, which is associated with high morbidity and a reduced quality of life. The diabetologist from Munich…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated To the point Freedom of choice After the Zurich electorate approved the initiative “Yes to freedom of choice in obtaining medicines” on November 30, 2008, residents of the cities of Zurich and Winterthur have finally been…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Award ceremony 22nd Pfizer Research Prize 2013 awarded The Pfizer Research Prize, endowed with a total of CHF 105,000, was awarded on February 7, 2013 in Zurich to nine outstanding papers in basic and clinical research in various…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Instrument preparation The nuts and bolts of practice hygiene In the primary care practice, safety goals established by law must be achieved when using medical devices. The dipl. Hygiene consultant Sibylle Scheibler-Bivi explains what is important.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated To the point Lie detector brand family doctor For a few weeks now, our patients have been coughing and blowing their nose in the waiting room again. Viral infections are “in vogue”. The typical flu patients are giving…
