This content is machine translated Invasive symptomatic therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Early diaphragmatic stimulation in ALS harms Purpose: Can early diaphragmatic pacing in ALS delay the need for noninvasive ventilation?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Parkinson's disease BRIVARACT II study on opicapone Purpose: A large proportion of patients with Mb. Parkinson’s disease experiences fluctuations in the effect of levodopa therapy during the course of the disease.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Alcohol dependence High-Dose Baclofen Treatment Purpose: Few medications are approved for the treatment of alcohol dependence. Is drug therapy with baclofen in the high-dose range a suitable alternative?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Efficacy analysis vortioxetine Major depression and anxiety symptoms Background: Anxiety disorders are a common comorbidity of depression. A comorbidity of depression and anxiety is more difficult to treat than depression alone.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stroke Therapy “Patients benefit from intervention through the vascular system” At the 20th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Cerebrovascular Society SHG, Prof. Jan Gralla, MD, from Inselspital Bern, Switzerland, spoke on “New Approaches in the Intra-arterial Treatment of Acute Stroke.”…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ACTRIMS Forum 2017 in Orlando B-cell-directed therapy under the microscope – what can we expect? At the ACTRIMS Forum 2017, B-cell depletion and thus the recently published results from the ORATORIO study in the New England Journal of Medicine were also on everyone’s lips. Not…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Herbal medicines for headaches A rather difficult indication for phytotherapy Besides the strongest analgesic, morphine, other herbal analgesics are not doing very well. It is true that there are medicinal plants with analgesic potential. However, various difficulties make it almost…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Advanced NET of the midgut Radiopeptide therapy successful in disease progression Patients with advanced, progressive somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the midgut may benefit from so-called peptide-mediated radioreceptor therapy (PRRT), according to a publication in the New England Journal of…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Tumor Treating Fields (TTF) What’s the story with the new process? At the 21st meeting of the Society For Neuro-Oncology, presentations included a phase III trial of Tumor Treating Fields (TTF) treatment in newly diagnosed glioblastoma. From ESMO ASIA come results…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ESMO in Copenhagen and Singapore Immunotherapy puts lung cancer experts in turmoil Pembrolizumab returned to the international stage of lung cancer therapy with a thunderclap during the presentation of the KEYNOTE 024 trial at the 2016 ESMO Congress in Copenhagen. Lectures on…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ASH 2016 in San Diego Multiple Myeloma Review As every year, the ASH Congress took place in the busy pre-Christmas season. This time, experts from hematology and oncology met in San Diego. Multiple myeloma was again an important…
