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...
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...
09.04.2021 - Hier geht es – mal wieder – um den weiblichen Körper. Immer wieder stoßen wir bei diesem Thema auf zwei Probleme. Wir wissen zu wenig, weil man nicht darüber spricht oder wir glauben zu wissen, aber es ist Quatsch. Ein Beispiel für solche...
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...
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....
