This content is machine translated Healthcare system Primary care top – administrative effort flop In an international comparison, Switzerland is ahead of the game: in a survey on primary care, the healthcare system scored first place. However, administrative tasks are increasing. This is a…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Colon Cancer Three cheers for the therapy The prognosis of patients with colon cancer harboring a mutation in the BRAF-V600 gene is markedly poor. If the therapy does not work, the probability of survival is only four…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Advanced bladder cancer Prolonged progression-free survival with combination therapy Preliminary study results suggest that the addition of immunotherapy to conventional chemotherapy may improve progression-free survival in patients with advanced bladder cancer. Is a paradigm shift on the horizon?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Stroke Secondary Prevention Ticagrelor as add-on leads to significant risk reduction Results from the Phase III THALES trial show that ticagrelor, when taken concomitantly with aspirin, produces a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in stroke recurrences compared with aspirin treatment…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Excellent science Best Abstracts: the most important research results at a glance There is hardly any other discipline in which such great and rapid progress has been made as in oncology and hematology. As the studies honored as Best Abstracts demonstrate, immune…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Stroke Neuroprotection in focus More than three quarters of all strokes are caused by an occlusion or narrowing of a blood vessel supplying the brain. This results in a reduced supply of oxygen and…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Small cell lung carcinoma Combined therapy with checkpoint inhibitors is effective Advances in the treatment of small cell lung cancer have been scarce in recent years. Results of second studies now demonstrate a survival advantage for the combination of chemotherapy with…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Make the tumor shine?! Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rather rare tumor entity in Europe, which is often only detected at an advanced stage. With combined radiochemotherapy, the chances of cure are good in non-metastatic…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Rhinovirus infection Fight off acute respiratory infections naturally through immune stimulation Colds are caused by rhinoviruses in 70% of cases. Typically, the disease lasts 10 to 14 days and numerous treatment options are not very effective. Patients with asthma or COPD…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Asbestosis Even without plaques, asbestos may be the culprit The fact that pneumological diseases can be caused by work-related factors is often overlooked during the anamnesis in clinical and practical everyday life. Especially in the case of asbestos cancer,…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Swiss general practitioner system More efficiency thanks to eHealth A large proportion of physicians surveyed in Switzerland in 2019 rate healthcare here as good or very good. This is shown by the results of the Commonwealth Fund’s (CWF) annual…
