This content is machine translated SGIM Annual Meeting 2013 Osteoporosis – Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations With regard to osteoporotic fractures, Switzerland is one of the high-risk countries together with Sweden and the USA. A 50-year-old Swiss woman has a 51.3% risk of suffering an osteoporotic…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Female genital itching It is not always mushroom! Itching in the genital area is common and severely debilitating. Often the cause is a fungal infection – but by far not always. Sometimes underlying pruritus are noninfectious dermatoses, allergic…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Psychoeducation and psychosomatics Promote skills in dealing with one’s own illness At this year’s Medidays in Zurich, various experts from the fields of psychotherapy and psychosomatics spoke about the potential of this form of therapy, for example in dealing with chronically…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Alzheimer's dementia The practitioner is not only in demand in diagnostics Although dementia is not one of the most common neurological diseases, it is already a relevant problem today and will become much more important due to demographic developments.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Incontinence in old age Therapy combinations lead to success Old bedridden persons in particular often suffer from urinary incontinence in addition to other complaints. The administration of medication can be supplemented with targeted pelvic floor or bladder training. As…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Contraception What are the dangers of the combined pill? At this year’s KHM congress, one of the topics discussed was the problem of cardiovascular risks associated with combined contraceptive pills. Based on the current research situation, PD Dr. med.…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Food supplements Folic acid is a MUST even before pregnancy Around 75 expectant parents in Switzerland are still confronted with the diagnosis of spina bifida every year – too many and unnecessarily, as became clear at a press conference in…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Addiction The national knowledge platform on age and addiction is online The newly created website www.alterundsucht.ch brings together the latest knowledge on alcohol in old age. It is aimed at older people, those close to them and professionals who care for,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Acute diarrhea in children Gelatine Tannat shows fast onset of action Background: In the 1980s, the death rate from acute diarrhea was an estimated 4.6 million people worldwide; the introduction of oral rehydration therapy (ORS [Oral Rehydration Solution]) reduced the number to…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Cervical Cancer Should the Swiss pension program be changed? Cervical carcinoma is in sharp decline in industrialized nations. The cytological cervical smear contributed to this. Nevertheless, cervical smear has been increasingly criticized. With the detection of HPV DNA, an…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Reflux and ulcer Proton pump inhibitors as first-choice therapeutic agents If alarm symptoms are present with reflux symptoms, esophagogastroduodenoscopy should be performed. Therapy is primarily by means of proton pump inhibitors (PPI). Probatory it is justifiable if there are no…
