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Italian cardiologist Dr. Massimo Mapelli, ponders in this article that “one of the things I don't understand (even as a physician) is the closure of kindergartens during the COVID-19 pandemic”.
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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmid (University of Lübeck, Germany) spoke at the DGIM Congress in the session "Drug therapy approaches - today and in the future", where obesity was a central topic.
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Sex reassingment poses challenges before, during, and after the transition. Patients should be accompanied by at least six medical specialties. This article takes a closer look at dermathological aspects.
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Prof. Nils-Claudius Gellrich, Congress President of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG) explained how computer assistance can help in extensive facial restoration after severe accidents or tumors.
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Evidence base of sport as "medicine" is a core topic at the SMHS 2021 Prof. Dr. Martin Scherer provides deeper insights into this question in an interview format of "3 questions, 3 answers".
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In 1998, Ramón Sampedro ended his life aided by eleven people. By March 2021, the Spanish parliament legalised euthanasia, despite opposition from political parties, the Catholic Church, and some physicians.
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How to effectively convey public health messages in the midst of a pandemic? The challenge is crucial because, despite social fatigue, precautionary measures will have to be continued for months.
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Trying to convince strangers on the web seems futile, whether you are a celebrity or an expert. Worse, it reinforces the beliefs of your interlocutors and they will turn away from you.
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An interview on the Recovery Plan draft with Dr. Michele Usuelli, a neonatologist, who has been studying the hospital-territory relationship in detail for three years.
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Promoting the creation of a modern and digitally oriented Italian NHS, able to improve the quality of care and the response to the health needs of citizens.
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Athletes suspected of doping, risk their careers due to unintentional contamination. Hair analysis is a complex but reliable technique separating real from fake, explains Prof. Pascal Kintz in an interview.
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Dr. Papadopoulou addresses the biopsychosocial model of health provision, interdisciplinary collaboration and the promotion of physical exercise as part of disease prevention and treatment.
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Planned investments include building and modernising the Italian National Health Service, both technologically and organisationally.
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A research team from Marburg wants to better assign people with COPD to specific groups and thus enable them to receive customised personalised treatment.
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The latest version of the "Recovery Plan" allocates approximately € 20 billion to the "healthcare mission". The central point of the project is to strengthen and redesign territorial healthcare.
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Rising cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in parallel to the wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) variant. The African region, Afghanistan and Pakistan are particularly affected.
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According to a study recently published in the European Respiratory Journal, wearing a protective mask only has a modest effect on healthy people’s ability to perform vigorous exercise.
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Even young patients should react to the first signs of high blood pressure with lifestyle changes and medication if necessary.
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Many are worried about the possible dangers of surgeries, therapies and diagnostics being cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schellong explains in an interview which health policy improvement potentials the pandemic is currently revealing.
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The 127th DGIM Congress is making the COVID-19 pandemic into a thematic and organisational priority, given its historic implications for medicine, society and its lessons for the future.
