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...
12.06.2020 - The first medical topic today: The prevention of stroke, namely, the secondary prevention of stroke, that is, the prevention of a recurrence of stroke—after a first stroke. Several questions were better resolved last year with the help of...
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...
01.02.2020 - Your questions about the new virus from China: Just one day after I’ve uploaded the radio broadcast „The new virus from China” into the archive, the broadcast already has been downloaded by third-party radio stations, and you did send me...
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....
13.01.2020 - This month, we continue with the last three important medical topics from 2018. Next month we will move on to 2019 and discuss the most important medical topics from the year 2019. The first medical news today: The mitral valve of the heart is one...
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...
12.11.2019 - The first medical news today: The artificial pancreas could soon be a reality. Actually, it is not an artificial pancreas. It is closed-loop insulin delivery. To name closed-loop insulin delivery an „artificial pancreas” is an overstatement,...
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...
