19.11.2021 - Blood in the urine that is visible only under a microscope is called microscopic haematuria. In an updated guideline, patients with microscopic haematuria are classified into three risk categories for cancer of the urinary tract. The most...
15.10.2021 - It is important that if you had been labelled as “Allergic to penicillin” in the past but, today, you no longer have penicillin allergy that this is recognised. This is called penicillin allergy de-labelling. Penicillin skin testing is the...
17.09.2021 - Back pain: The effect of physical therapy against back pain is real but marginal. The effect of surgery against back pain is real but we do not know if the effect lasts long-term. Atrial fibrillation: A large clinical study, “EAST-AF,” showed...
21.07.2021 - Die Künstlerin Vilija Vitkutė, der Performerin Malgorzata Sus, der Bodypainter Johannes Stötter und Alex Barendregt, der Veranstalter des World Bodypainting Festivals sprechen über Bodypainting, Camouflage, Tierillusion und die Schönheit der...
15.07.2021 - Each one of us knows physical pain, i.e., pain in the body. When medical doctors are confronted with patients experiencing physical pain, they also face a problem: How to measure pain? Pain is not measurable objectively. Therefore, patients...
18.06.2021 - Gout is an inflammation of the joints (arthritis). Gout is caused by hyperuricaemia, i.e., too much uric acid in the blood. Gout is clinically characterised by acute gout attacks (sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness, and tenderness...
12.05.2021 - Coronary artery disease is caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels of the heart. There is the so-called “stable” coronary artery disease, i.e., no symptoms occur during physical rest. A large and important clinical study, the ISCHEMIA...
16.04.2021 - Why are we sceptical about vaccines? Why are we specifically sceptical about the vaccine of AstraZeneca? Governments need to remember that not only their citizens but also, they have difficulty seeing the bigger picture. We have our PSYCHOLOGY...
10.02.2021 - Gea in talk with Sandra Jensen from the Styrian NGO ISOP (Innovative Sozialprojekte), department manager for school social work
21.10.2020 - Die Schriftstellerin, Hochschullehrerin, Menschenrechtsaktivistin Frau Dr.in. Ishraga Mustafa Hamid hat Heute, in Würdigung ihrer grossen Leistungen das goldene Verdienstzeichen des Landes Wien erhalten.
18.10.2020 - Das war doch so eine ganz spezielle Power - im aufrecht rebellischen Gitarrenrock der 90er Jahre - Power im Sinn von Lebensfreude, Zuversicht und Extase. Warum ist die heute so selten?
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...
21.07.2020 - backflash4ward – Das generationsübergreifenden Musikradio mit Paul Sandhofer und seinem Vater Gerald Schlattl Vater und Sohn philosophieren über die Themen, welche Männer eben über die Generationen so verbindet: Fußball,...