This content is machine translated Guidelines on arterial hypertension What is the best current therapy? The suspected diagnosis of arterial hypertension should be confirmed with ambulatory blood pressure self-monitoring or (better) by 24h blood pressure monitoring. In young patients, negative family history, stage 2 or…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Toxic, allergic or irritant? Eczema as an occupational disease In recent years, occupational dermatoses accounted for about 20% of recognized occupational diseases in Switzerland. This makes dermatoses the second most common recognized occupational disease after noise-induced hearing loss and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Depression in dementia Cognitive impairment is also common in depression Depression is the most common accompanying symptom of dementia and often the first to announce the onset of cognitive decline. The differential diagnosis of depression and dementia is difficult, and…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Carotid stimulation Update on the current state of research The carotid stimulator is a device that electrically activates the baroreflex mechanism. As a result, sympathetic tone is attenuated and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is dampened, causing a reduction in blood…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated National Concept Rare Diseases Breathing life into a concept The “National Concept for Rare Diseases” from the FOPH has been available since September 2014. This is a milestone in view of the great challenges and everyday situations of those…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Swiss Family Docs - Infectiology Use antibiotics in a targeted and restrained manner At the Swiss Family Docs Congress, Prof. Rainer Weber, MD, Director of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Zurich, provided information on infectious disease topics in a well-attended…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated News in the Swiss Vaccination Plan Getting the timing right and protecting vulnerable groups At Medidays in Zurich, Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Berger from the University Children’s Hospital showed the innovations that have taken place in the Swiss vaccination schedule in recent years. In…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Hodgkin's lymphoma Avoiding unnecessary chemotherapy cycles and radiation with PET? At the annual meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO), various questions regarding the care of patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma were controversially discussed.What…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Congress for Holistic Pain Therapy Giving competition to the pain in the head At the 1st Swiss Congress for Holistic Pain Therapy, the focus was for once on topics other than drugs, interventions and control of side effects with regard to pain. Experts…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Gastric Cancer HER2 inhibition may also prolong survival in gastric cancer A new molecular genetic classification of gastric cancer into four subtypes was recently proposed as part of the Cancer Genome Atlas project, which identifies all gene defects in all known…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated 4th Basel Dementia Forum A lot has happened In Basel, an update on diagnostics and therapy was given at this year’s Dementia Forum. The two experts Prof. Dr. phil. Andreas U. Monsch and Prof. Dr. med. Reto W.…
