18.03.2022 - Heart failure is difficult to treat. However, empagliflozin, a tablet originally intended for patients with type 2 diabetes, also helped patients with heart failure, regardless of whether they had type 2 diabetes or not. Yet, empagliflozin has not...
18.02.2022 - Three clinical studies were carried out in patients with shoulder pain and/or immobility. Simplified, all patients were randomised to an invasive treatment or physiotherapy. The result: Physiotherapy was as effective as any other therapy,...
21.12.2021 - Great vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed at breath-taking speed, and they all are very effective. However, the most effective against the omicron variant seems to be a third shot (a booster shot) of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine (I give...
12.12.2021 - The lack of the arts and culture could damage our society for years to come in ways we cannot imagine yet. We could become brutalized (if I may use this word) as a society, as a whole. Please inform all of your friends and relatives who have not...
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...
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...
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...
19.02.2021 - Answers to the following questions: 1) What is a vaccination? 2) Will the coming two vaccines against COVID-19 not change my genetic substance, will they not be built in into my genes? 3) Is the fast development of these vaccines not questionable?...
16.10.2020 - The first medical news today: Many average-risk adults undergo screening with colonoscopy to prevent colon or rectal cancer. Some who undergo screening are found to have colon or rectal cancer and are treated immediately. However, some who undergo...
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...
