This content is machine translated 25th EADV Congress in Vienna Progress in melanoma treatment: more success with combination therapies Just a few years ago, metastatic melanoma was rapidly fatal – but today the disease responds frequently and long-term to new drug therapies. Experts reported on advances in melanoma therapy…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Sentinel function of the P-glycoprotein The ABCB1 test for optimizing therapy with antidepressants Overcoming the blood-brain barrier is an important prerequisite for the efficacy of antidepressants. The essential component of the blood-brain barrier is the P-glycoprotein, which is encoded by the ABCB1 gene…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dermatology training week in Munich There will be no change in skin cancer screening in Germany In Germany, the number of skin cancer cases has been increasing for many years. The incidence is currently over 200,000 per year, including approximately 20,000 malignant melanomas. The number of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated National Psoriasis Day 2016 Current systemic treatments and Swiss guidelines The revolution in systemic psoriasis therapy began with the introduction of anti-TNF treatment after the turn of the millennium. Since then, the chain of further new psoriasis drug launches has…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Stroke patients should be treated in the stroke unit Stroke unit or stroke team? Question: Do stroke patients benefit from treatment in a monitored stroke unit compared with initial care in an intensive care unit with care by a mobile stroke team?
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Functional lesional neurosurgery for tremor. Thalamotomy with focused ultrasound as a therapy for essential tremor. Purpose: Does thalamotomy using MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) significantly improve tremor in patients with previously refractory essential tremor (ET) compared with sham treatment, and does the side effect profile justify…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Hope through rituximab? Purpose: Does immunomodulatory therapy with rituximab (Mabthera®) lead to sustained symptom improvement in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)?
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated ECTRIMS Hot Topic Session The role of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in MS. In recent years, impressive results have been published on autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple sclerosis. In a pro-con debate at the 32nd Congress of the European…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy for gastrointestinal complaints Herbal preparations from different traditions lead to success The following article presents two completely different herbal preparations, both of which have documented efficacy in functional dyspepsia. One comes from Western phytotherapy and corresponds to the way of thinking…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Medidays Zurich 2016 Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia – how to treat? At Medidays Zurich 2016, the advanced training for general internal medicine in practice and hospital, Alzheimer’s dementia was a topic: its pathology is very complex and a causal therapy is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated A call to action was made at the European Congress of Cardiologists Prevention of obesity in children Childhood and adolescent obesity is the precursor to cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adulthood. About one third of all children and adolescents in the USA are affected, and about 10%…
