This content is machine translated Update Refresher Internal Medicine “Fat kills” – or is it? At the Update Refresher Internal Medicine, the two cardiologists from the Stadtspital Triemli Prof. Dr. med. Franz Eberli and PD Dr. med. David Kurz discussed news and views from current…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Folk medicine lore and some clinical studies What can herbal medicines do for diabetes? Diabetes type 2 is not necessarily one of the diseases for which one expects a treatment possibility with herbal preparations. However, there are a number of medicinal plants of western…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated AHA Congress 2015 in Orlando Big News: Do we need to rethink blood pressure targets? The dominant topic at the AHA Congress was the SPRINT trial and its implications for future hypertension treatment. Is it prognostically meaningful to target lower systolic blood pressure values in…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Modern concept of coronary surgery Improving the gold standard Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with heart-lung machine is the gold standard of myocardial revascularization. The results of off-pump surgery and percutaneous intervention (PCI) should be measured against this. Bypass…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Recurrent depressive disorder Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy instead of antidepressants? Research question: Is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) superior to maintenance therapy with antidepressant medication in terms of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness?
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Treatment of multiple sclerosis relapse Oral versus intravenous steroids Purpose: The COPOUSEP study, published in the Lancet, investigates whether oral administration of high-dose methylprednisolone is inferior to intravenous administration.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Treatment of pain in Parkinson's disease How does sustained-release oxycodone/naloxone perform? Purpose: This multicenter randomized controlled trial investigates the efficacy of sustained-release oxycodone/naloxone on severe pain in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated BPH and urological carcinoma Urologic surgery in the very elderly: why not? When does it? Age is not a contraindication to urological surgery. In frail elderly patients, joint management between urologists, anesthesiologists, and geriatricians is recommended. In patients with renal cell carcinoma who are not…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mental disorders as causal systems Post-traumatic stress disorder from a network perspective. Purpose: An important goal of McNally and colleagues’ study is to characterize the symptom structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using network analyses among survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Rapid start of therapy, intensive controls Strong helpers against rheumatoid arthritis At the Update Refresher General Internal Medicine, Michael Andor, MD, Center for Spine Medicine PRODORSO, Zurich, provided information on the current therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The treatment of RA…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Panacea or fashion trend? Cannabis in the symptomatic treatment of multiple sclerosis. For the past year, patients with multiple sclerosis in Switzerland have been able to be prescribed Sativex®, a spray containing delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), without prior special authorization. THC…
