This content is machine translated Opportunities and challenges of herbal medicine Phytotherapy in the fight against parasitic diseases Modern medicine faces numerous challenges in the 21st century. One of the biggest is the increasing resistance of pathogens to conventional medicines, especially antibiotics and antiparasitics. Against this backdrop, herbal…
View Post 13 min This content is machine translated Tropical vectors Is a spread to Europe conceivable in times of climate change? In the context of anthropogenic climate change and global warming, questions are often raised about the resulting potential for tropical vectors (and the diseases they transmit) to spread due to…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated More than malaria prophylaxis Travel advice for patients with chronic diseases With careful preparation, well-adjusted and instructed patients with chronic diseases can take vacations in exotic countries. Taking into account interactions and contraindications for the individual disease and therapy, travel medicine…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Infectiology The dangerous disease travels home with At the fourth JHaS congress in Thun, Niklaus Labhardt, MD, Liestal, spoke about travel souvenirs in family practice. In particular, he addressed dengue fever, which is on the rise worldwide…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Travel medicine The world is increasingly becoming a village – also for pathogens More and more people are traveling around the world and between several countries, sometimes bringing diseases home with them, which poses a considerable challenge to the family doctor. He must…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Travel medicine Practice of travel medicine consultation Travel is steadily increasing worldwide: while there were 150 million tourist arrivals in 1970, this number rose to over 940 million in 2010 [1]. On average, each Swiss person took…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Tuberculosis, HIV and tropical diseases Infectious diseases that also affect Switzerland(er) Worldwide, around 53 million people die of tuberculosis, HIV and malaria within a year. The inhabitants of tropical and poor countries are particularly affected. But even the rich Switzerland is…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Travel medicine Do you know which vaccinations are necessary and which are recommended? Not all vaccinations that are recommended are really necessary and useful for every patient. A detailed review of vaccinations for travel has recently been published [1]; this article characterizes the…
