This content is machine translated World Health Organization 75 years in the service of health WHO has been working to strengthen people’s health and well-being for 75 years. This includes giving as many people as possible good access to quality health care, and preventing and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Tuberculosis COVID-19 risk – or also opportunity? In 2015, the WHO set a goal to eliminate tuberculosis by 2035. Already, the milestones by 2020 – including a 35% reduction in mortality and 0% catastrophic costs for families…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Medical technology innovations Digital health platform and “high tech” diagnostic systems During the corona pandemic, demand for “digital health” services increased significantly. Interactive and straightforward access to healthcare meets a current need. However, in order to ensure the necessary medical care…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Tuberculosis The new WHO recommendations for rapid diagnosis and treatment In 2018, approximately 10 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.45 million died. An increasingly major challenge is the care of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), for whom the two main…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Nephrology Kidney and analgesics – recommendations for practice Pain management in patients with severe chronic kidney disease is no trivial matter due to limiting factors. Not only potential side effects can make the use of the painkillers also…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Myelodysplastic syndromes WHO classification and use of “next-generation” sequencing With the aging of society, MDS diseases are also on the rise. However, developments in molecular diagnostics and new therapies will also change management for older patients. A multidisciplinary approach…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Update and outlook Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers The clinical presentation of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is mostly nonspecific (flu-like syndrome) and difficult to distinguish from other common infectious diseases. For risk assessment, the case definition of the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Infectiology Ebola worldwide – Ebola and Switzerland According to the WHO, more than 10,000 people have now been infected with Ebola – about half of them died from the virus. The number of unreported cases is far…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Substitution-assisted treatment for opioid dependence in Switzerland Advanced pharmacotherapy options Substitution for substance dependence is the medically prescribed replacement of a dependence-producing substance with a less harmful drug with the same or similar mechanism of action. The combination of substitution…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Medicinal pain therapy Consider the pain mechanism, not just the pain intensity 115 years ago, the first synthetically produced analgesic came onto the market in a shelf-stable form. This was acetylsalicylic acid, which is still in use today. In the meantime, many…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Allergology What has happened in diagnostics and therapy? Allergies are an everyday topic in family practice. Until the beginning of this millennium, it was assumed that about one third of the western population suffers from an allergy, be…
