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.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 1st Baden Breast Symposium 2014 Developments in the field of plastic reconstructive breast surgery At 7. and November 8, 2014, the 1st Baden Breast Symposium took place at the Women’s Clinic of the Cantonal Hospital Baden. The focus of the conference, which was organized…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronically ill patients Psychological comorbidities – recognize, ask, act Treatments for chronic diseases, most of which are complex, account for a large share of primary care consultations and total health care costs. “Chronic disease management” poses complex challenges for…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated EMUC Congress 2014 Active surveillance and androgen deprivation in prostate cancer. At the EMUC Congress in Lisbon, two sessions highlighted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in prostate cancer. One was the benefits and effects of Active Surveillance, and the other was a…
View Post 16 min This content is machine translated Practical aspects of vitamin D supplementation Effectively prevent falls and fractures By definition, vitamins are substances that the human organism cannot produce itself, but which it needs to live and which must therefore be supplied. However, the precursors of vitamin D…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Music and humor in medicine The art of healing That medicine and art are very close to each other is an old wisdom. It is not for nothing that one speaks of “healing art”. Conversely, the comforting effect of…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Esophageal cancer in Switzerland A rare but dangerous tumor In the treatment of esophageal cancer, it is necessary to pay attention to a sufficiently high caloric intake from the first day of treatment. In locally advanced esophageal cancer, neoadjuvant…
