This content is machine translated Medication Abuse Painkillers and sports With increasing hours of sunshine, outdoor sporting activities are also on the rise again. This is also accompanied by an increase in injuries and the subsequent desire for a painkiller.…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated An ancient cultivated plant with medicinal properties Flaxseed – various applications Flaxseeds have a long folk medicine tradition as a stool regulator and for the treatment of irritable bowel and irritable stomach. More recent is its use as a supplier of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Soft tissue sarcomas It gets too “hot” for the cancer cells Possible treatments for soft tissue sarcomas include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Recently, attempts have been made to enhance the effects by exposing the cancer cells to heat – with…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Cancer risk increased after heart transplantation New heart, new cancer? After heart transplantation, it is mandatory to suppress the immune system. There is a risk of rejection of the new organ. However, this also means that degenerated cells can no…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated European study Young oncologists are burned out and exhausted Burnout syndrome is ubiquitous in the medical world. The largest survey ever conducted on the subject raises eyebrows: Two-thirds of all young European oncologists show signs of burnout. What now?
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated ELCC 2018 in Geneva Not “only” live longer, but also better Atezolizumab enables long-term survival for some pretreated lung cancer patients. Alectinib also helps patients live a more tolerable daily life by mitigating disease symptoms over the longer term. These are…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Alternative therapies D-mannose in the prophylaxis of recurrent urinary tract infections Resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobially active substances, e.g. antibiotics, is an increasing problem in the medical care of infectious diseases. Two studies provide insight into the possibility of using D-mannose…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated SWISS eHealth Barometer 2018 New data on the electronic patient dossier document departure The new eHealth Barometer 2018 was presented at the SWISS eHealth Forum in Bern: There is movement in the topic of digitalization of healthcare. The players are networking, the stakeholders…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated DGK 2018 Therapy of HFrEF: Something New, Old and Borrowed An update on modern heart failure therapy was given at the DGK Congress in Mannheim. Where are the ARNIs currently located? What is the procedure for special patient requests? There…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Zurich Review Course in Clinical Cardiology Are mechanical heart valves “out”? It was a long way from the development of the first artificial heart valve in the 1960s to modern biological heart valves made from animal tissue. At least in Europe,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Alcohol consumption Low-risk consumption limits need to be reconsidered How does regular alcohol consumption of more than 100 g/week affect all-cause mortality and the risk of cardiovascular sequelae? A recent study by the University of Cambridge has recorded the drinking…
