This content is machine translated Skin Cancer Congress Research projects with exciting implications The 24th German Skin Cancer Congress took place in Frankfurt am Main from September 11-13, 2014. In the following, some interesting casuistics, cohort, retro- and prospective studies from different German…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer and stroke Retrospective study offers little hope for stroke patients with cancer The aim of a new study was to find out how often and in what way recurrent thromboembolic events present after acute ischemic stroke. This only involved stroke patients who…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer patients with diabetes Metformin against cancer? There is increasing evidence from epidemiological studies and scientific research that metformin may have an antitumor effect. However, whether the drug improves survival in cancer patients with diabetes remains unclear…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated New insights into Alzheimer's diagnostics Nose and eyes offer diagnostically promising possibilities Important advances are emerging in Alzheimer’s diagnostics. Soon, low-cost eye and smell tests could be included in early diagnosis. Several studies on this were presented at the AAIC Congress in Copenhagen.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Chronic renal failure, dialysis and kidney transplantation “Diabesity – a new epidemic? From May 31 to June 3, 2014, the 51st Congress of the “European Renal Association” and the “European Dialysis and Transplant Association” (ERA-EDTA) was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Intracerebral hemorrhage and stroke Nursing home residents do not benefit from occupational therapy after stroke Two lectures at the 23rd European Stroke Conference in Nice were dedicated to the topic of stroke. On the one hand, it was about effective prophylaxis. How can intracerebral hemorrhage…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Acute stroke Is blood pressure therapy useful? Updates on the Scandinavian Candesartan Acute Stroke Trial (SCAST) were presented at this year’s European Stroke Conference in Nice. The results come in part from a long-term follow-up presented by…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis The need for new therapeutic options is great Recently, a large multinational study investigated the impact of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) on the lives of people with the condition. This showed that various areas of the disease…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hodgkin's lymphoma Does brentuximab vedotin have curative potential in a subset of affected individuals? New results from a phase II study presented at the ASH Congress in New Orleans offer hope for patients with refractory or relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma: Approximately 10% of participants in…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronic lymphocytic leukemia Not only ibrutinib attracts attention For patients with refractory or relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia, several agents are currently under investigation that show promising results. At the EHA Congress in Milan, the main focus was on…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated ARUBA study Drug therapy continues to perform better A new extrapolation on the ARUBA trial shows that the benefit of simple drug therapy over intervention in patients with asymptomatic arteriovenous malformations may last much longer than originally thought.
