This content is machine translated Drug interactions Refresher – Do’s and dont’s at a glance Patients would make the title of this post more authoritative: Do my physicians safely protect me from avoidable risks due to inappropriate combination of drugs? This illustrates the standard to… CME-Test
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Therapy-refractory focal epilepsy New add-on antiepileptic drug significantly reduces seizure frequency For the treatment of focal epilepsy that cannot be adequately controlled despite previous therapy with at least two anticonvulsants, a new add-on therapy has recently become available for adults –…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Brain diseases Supply strategies discussed on an interdisciplinary basis Representatives from neurology, psychiatry and pharmacy met for the first time at the Berlin Brain Summit for an interdisciplinary summit on brain diseases. The aim of the inter-professional exchange was…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Chronic urticaria New guideline – Management of urticaria up-to-date At the beginning of 2022, the new urticaria guideline of the German Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology and the German Dermatological Society was published. Second-generation antihistamines and omalizumab as…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary Case Management If symptoms are nonspecific, also consider multiple chemical sensitivity Multiple Chemical Sensitivity” (MCS) is a subjectively experienced increased sensitivity to chemicals from the environment. Affected persons react with a variety of non-specific complaints. The level of suffering can be…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Systemic lupus erythematosus Biologics will continue to establish themselves It is already foreseeable that biologics will also become more important in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Data were presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2021…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Cardiovascular diseases New innovative treatment options Rising life expectancy worldwide is accompanied by an increasing medical need for effective treatments for cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure (HF). Now, new innovative drugs…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Rheumatic diseases Modern management of axial spondyloarthritis For patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), in whom therapy with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was not effective, several active agents from the substance classes of biologics and JAK inhibitors are available…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Skin cancer diagnostics Study on AI-assisted melanoma detection. Early detection of malignant melanoma is of critical prognostic importance. To improve sensitivity and specificity, a variety of other noninvasive diagnostic methods are now available in addition to sequential digital…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Parkinson's therapy Studies on α-synuclein-binding antibodies disappointed Parkinson’s disease is a chronically progressive, neurodegenerative disease that, if left untreated, can quickly lead to a severely diminished quality of life due to its motor symptoms. Currently, there are…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated No stent for stroke and intracranial stenosis? New data does not justify general exclusion TIA and stroke patients with advanced intracranial stenoses should generally not be stented – according to a 2016 G-BA decision. A recent randomized trial [1] shows: clinically stable patients do…
