This content is machine translated Herbal medicines help with various complaints Phytotherapy in geriatrics One might assume that diseases in old age can only be treated with synthetic drugs, since the typical diseases in this last stage of life are often considerable and have…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated The power of blood Can we improve our performance with our own blood? Regardless of faith and ideology, man has always attributed a special meaning to blood: it stands simultaneously for life and death, for good and evil, for purity and profanation, for…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Hypertension and heart failure The small vessels play the decisive role Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for the development of heart failure. At the same time, hypertension is strongly involved in the development of atherosclerosis and thus…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated VZI Symposium 2017 What helps against menopausal symptoms? At the symposium of the Association of General and Specialized Internists Zurich (VZI), KD Stephanie von Orelli, MD, gave an overview of the current diagnostic and therapeutic standard in women…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Care of epilepsy patients An EMU for the Epilepsy Center of Eastern Switzerland The Epilepsy Center of the Clinic for Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen offers comprehensive medical care for epilepsy patients in Eastern Switzerland. Long-term EEGs can now also be…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Large tumor - large access? The keyhole concept in minimally invasive neurosurgery Case report: The 56-year-old patient had been suffering from headache and nausea and increasing psychomotor slowing for three months. Clinically, he presented with left facial nerve mouth branch weakness, left…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Sport in the growing age A child is not a miniature adult Whether structured, organized and performance-oriented sport is a positive thing already in childhood is today judged very controversially (keyword: early specialization vs. general training). The fact is that in many…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated A feasibility study Psilocybin for the treatment of refractory depression. Purpose: Psilocybin is an indole alkaloid belonging to the tryptamine group, which acts as a serotonin receptor agonist in the brain. Psilocybin produces a hallucinogenic high and is very similar…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Many studies document the effectiveness Hawthorn against heart failure Various species of the plant genus Crataegus, hawthorn, have been used since ancient times to treat heart failure. There are many clinical studies documenting the efficacy of standardized hawthorn extracts.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Smoking and mental disorders Nicotine dependence in psychiatric disorders. Nicotine dependence is among the most common comorbid disorders in patients with psychiatric disorders. Evidence-based pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic smoking cessation programs (REPs) are also effective in patients with psychiatric disorders.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Therapy of varicose veins Choice of the optimal treatment Varicose vein surgery with saphenous vein stripping remains an important part of the treatment spectrum for varicose vein disease and is preferable to endovenous procedures for some forms of varicose…
