18.09.2020 - The first medical topic today: The American cholesterol guideline, the joint guideline of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, has been updated in 2019. The new version of the guideline still says that patients at...
14.08.2020 - The first medical topic today: Three clinical studies published in 2019 led to the conclusion either open-heart surgery or minimally invasive heart surgery will be used more often in the future in patients with aortic stenosis. The minimally...
17.07.2020 - The first medical topic today: Patients with atrial fibrillation frequently also have coronary artery disease. In the treatment of such patients for their atrial fibrillation: Less is more. The conclusion from a large clinical study is that...
15.05.2020 - The first medical topic today: Are as-needed inhaled steroids effective for mild asthma? Yes, two clinical studies from 2019 show that. The second medical news today: Artificially sweetened drinks are potentially dangerous. Researchers linked them...
11.04.2020 - Today, I shall try to make a better prognosis for the new virus. How should this new prognosis look like? What should you prepare for? I think you should prepare for the worst of all realistic scenarios. Most of the information for this...
12.03.2020 - This month, we move away from the year 2018, to the most important medical topics from the year 2019. The first medical news today: Several guidelines for bacterial pneumonia have been updated. There was one change in vaccines. Only a specific...
29.01.2020 - What do we know today, the day of the recording of this broadcast, January 28, 2020, about the new virus from China? Should we be concerned? According to current knowledge: The new coronavirus is to be taken seriously. You should keep up-to-date....
09.12.2019 - The first medical news today: Precision medicine = Personalised medicine. Personalised medicine is admittedly a misleading name, because personalised medicine (as mentioned, the same as precision medicine) actually only means that genetic tests...
16.10.2019 - The first medical news today: Nutritional goals in intensive care units: The results of two very large clinical studies from 2018 indicate that efforts in intensive care units to achieve what has been called “full enteral nutrition” for...
12.09.2019 - The first medical news today: Three clinical studies from 2018 taken together suggest that the delayed initiation of renal replacement therapy in intensive care units is better after all and that the additional infusion of a sodium bicarbonate...
15.08.2019 - The first medical news today: For inpatients who are treated either in an emergency room of a hospital or in an intensive care unit and who need fluid as an infusion, the Ringer’s lactate solution is the better choice, compared with the 0.9%...
19.07.2019 - The first medical news today: Perhaps, you already are familiar with the term “Venous thromboembolism,” especially in connection with “Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)” and “Pulmonary embolism (PE).” The American guideline for the...
14.06.2019 - – The first medical news today: Not low-carb diet or no-carb diet, but a moderate intake of carbs seems to be the best choice. 15 428 participants of both sexes were observed for 25 years. A moderate intake of carbohydrates was the best...
16.05.2019 - The first important medical topic from 2018 today: SGLT-2 inhibitors have proven themselves for type 2 diabetes. A meta-analysis was published in 2018. The first approval of this drug class was quick, with surrogate endpoints. Therefore, it was...
