Around half of all patients with chronic pain report suffering from several parts of the body.Physicians speak of “multi-site chronic pain” (MCP). With the number of pain locations, the risk of dementia also increases, reports a team led by Yiheng Tu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in the journal”Proceedings of the National Academy […]
That a major hospital reform is necessary – the federal and state governments agree on this. On the other hand, there is disagreement about the “how”. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is getting more and more headwind from the federal states. 3 federal states now even want to have the reform legally examined. At the […]
White Paper to inform, educate, treat: towards a participatory and integrated model of Italian alcology From epidemiological data released by the World Health Organization, alcohol is considered the fifth risk factor for the global disease burden. In the 30 countries of the European Union, 5.5% of all deaths were caused by alcohol, largely from oncological […]
Knowledge The European Commission has approved a tetravalent dengue vaccine (live vaccine, attenuated [TAK-003]) for the prevention of dengue virus (DENV) dengue fever for persons aged ≥ 4& years , regardless of previous exposure to DENV.This is the second dengue fever vaccine to be approved in the European Union, following the approval of a first dengue vaccine […]
The At its meeting in December 2022 a Extension forTadalafil (Adcirca, Eli Lilly) recommended: The indication should be extended to the treatment of pediatric patients 2 years of age and older with pulmonary arterial hypertension, classified as WHO functional classes II and III.Until now, the indication was limited to adult patients. This full text is unfortunately […]
air pollution causes damage to the lungs and vessels; the particulate matter is even deposited. A study in Canada now adds another to the known fatal consequences: With the air pollutants, the number of suicides also increases, reports a team led by brain researcher Paul Villeneuve in “Environmental Research“. The research group first used a […]
Erkenntnis Venous thromboembolism (VTEs) is common in cancer and increases over time. Risk stratification is crucial for weighing the risks and benefits of primary thrombosis prophylaxis. The management of cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) depends specifically on the different points in time in the course of the cancer. The benefit-risk analysis of anticoagulation must be carried out […]
Ministry of Health Influenza, monitoring of the progress of severe and complicated forms confirmed in the laboratory Since the 2009-2010 pandemic season, surveillance of serious and complicated cases of confirmed influenza has been active in Italy, which it is considered appropriate to continue to maintain active also during the 2022-2023 season. The surveillance aims to […]
The At its January 2023 meeting, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted two-_ Extensions recommended in oncology: Darolutamide (Nubeqa, Bayer): In the future, the antiandrogen will also be indicated for the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in combination with docetaxel and androgen deprivation […]
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers in 1802. In it, he asked them to have him examined by his doctor after his death and to publish the result. But the doctor’s notes were never found. The list of Beethoven’s health problems is long. These were known to include his progressive hearing loss, […]