• New drugs against obesity

    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.

  • Dermatology and transwomen: Some recommendations

    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.

  • Fiction no more: Computer-assisted oral and maxillofacial surgery

    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.

  • Sport as a medicine?

    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".

  • The faces and laws behind the euthanasia debate in Spain

    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.

  • Celebrities, experts, and convincing on social networks (Part 2)

    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.

  • Celebrities, experts, and convincing on social networks (Part 1)

    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.

  • Recovery Plan, a healthcare mission (part 4)

    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.

  • Recovery Plan, a healthcare mission (part 3)

    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.

  • Doping: When an athlete is saved by a “hair's breadth”

    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.

  • The role of the EFSMA (Dr. Theodora Papadopoulou)

    Dr. Papadopoulou addresses the biopsychosocial model of health provision, interdisciplinary collaboration and the promotion of physical exercise as part of disease prevention and treatment.

  • Recovery Plan, a healthcare mission (part 2)

    Planned investments include building and modernising the Italian National Health Service, both technologically and organisationally.

  • Better COPD treatment through artificial intelligence?

    A research team from Marburg wants to better assign people with COPD to specific groups and thus enable them to receive customised personalised treatment.

  • Recovery Plan, a healthcare mission (part 1)

    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.

  • Global Outbreak Update: Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2)

    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.

  • Masks and exercise

    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.

  • High blood pressure damages brain earlier than previously thought

    Even young patients should react to the first signs of high blood pressure with lifestyle changes and medication if necessary.

  • Internal Medicine: Out of the hamster wheel!

    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.

  • The German Internal Medicine Congress: digital for the first time

    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.

  • Medical lessons from the COVID-19 crisis

    Redirecting or closed wards for COVID-19 patients treatment, postponed elective surgeries, and schedules for absolutely necessary treatments. Could these measures be a model for post-pandemic healthcare?

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