19 октября, 2020

Highly Processed Foods Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk

A High total consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPF) is associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This emerges from a large-scale analysis, which showed, however, that this risk only applies to some of these foods. The study by Dr. Zhangling Chen (Erasmus MC Rotterdam) and colleagues was recently published in the journal […]

12 октября, 2020

What concerns doctors and health workers worldwide – dengue fever in Europe, outbreak of cholera and poliomyelitis in Africa

We at the Medscape Professional Network would like to work with you on important and share clinically relevant contributions from different countries around the world in recent weeks. EUROPA France Shortage of doctors: In an article published this week in Le Monde , warns  Professor Antoine  Pelissolo , Head of the Department of Psychiatry am  […]

7 октября, 2020

Resignation letters and GPT Chat: a possible challenge?

The debate of these first months of 2023 has been stimulated by the performance of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) program (Generative Pretrained Transformer). The program automatically creates texts based on written instructions and is freely accessible via a web portal created by the developer, OpenAI.  ChatGPT uses a technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human […]

6 октября, 2020

Pain physician complains about supply deficits, KV boss about practice losses

In the opinion of the German Society for Pain Medicine, the care of pain patients in Germany still needs to be optimized. “The claim of the provider company German Society for Pain Medicine is to improve care concretely,” said Dr. Johannes Horlemann, Kevelaer, President of German Society for Pain Medicine at the Pain and Palliative […]

2 октября, 2020

Epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases

Epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases ARS Report November 2022 At the time this Report on the Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Tuscany is published, almost three years have passed since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began. The path that has characterized the evolution of the virus in this period of time seems to be under control, mainly […]

2 октября, 2020

Trouble falling asleep at night?

A study that measured the sleep patterns of University of Washington students revealed some surprises about how and when our bodies tell us to sleep, and illustrates the importance of getting out during the day, even when it’s cloudy. Daytime light exposure is a strong predictor of seasonal variation in college students’ sleep and circadian […]

18 сентября, 2020

Important Information Note on Imbruvica (ibrutinib)

AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco Note Important on (ibrutinib) Ibrutinib increases the risk of severe and fatal cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure. Patients of advanced age, with ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) performance status ≥ 2 or cardiac comorbidities, may have an increased risk of cardiac events, including sudden fatal cardiac events. Before initiating treatment […]

3 сентября, 2020

Stendhal syndrome: When beauty overwhelms

“For beauty is nothing but the terrible beginning, which we are still enduring,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke. Perhaps he was a little too optimistic, since again and again people seem to find beauty – especially in excess – difficult to bear: at the sight of it, they suffer a breakdown. In science and popular culture, […]