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Alcohol consumption is responsible for about one in ten cases of cancer in men and one of 33 cancer cases in women in charge. This result is largely based on data from 363.988 male and female EPIC * -Studienteilnehmern from Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. The majority of alcohol-related cancers can be attributed to a consumer who goes beyond the acceptable amount. This for men is two glasses per day and in women at daily a glass of an alcoholic beverage.
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Record a mammoth project: This year looks ISAAC, an internationally unprecedented long-term study on asthma and allergies, to 20 years research back. Two million children and adolescents in 106 countries were investigated since the start 1991. Clear Conclusion: The correct way of life, such as healthy diet and not cigarettes - and their parents - can protect. Surprising: Asthma and allergies are rare in East Germany than in the west. And: is The richer a country is, the greater there the asthma problem.
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Expert appeal: undersupply in Germany blatantly - Remedy through responsible use of solar and targeted supply a safe way
Recent scientific findings point to the special effect of vitamin D or its active form, the calcitriol (vitamin D3), within our most complex organ: the brain. The reported Dirk Lemke of the Median Clinic, a specialist clinic for neurological and orthopedic rehabilitation, Berlin on a recent symposium on "Vitamin D Update 2011" in the Berlin Charité. The conditions for the impact of this vitamin on the central nervous system, according to the expert, are detected. Nervous Protective (neuroprotective) or the immune-altering (immunomodulatory) effects as well as effects on the behavior of cells within the central and peripheral nervous systems are now recognized as largely. Now because the epidemiological and experimental data indicate that vitamin D could play a key role in the prevention of diseases such as multiple sclerosis, depression, dementia, Parkinson's disease or stroke.
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The antidepressant fluoxetine can improve the recovery of stroke patients. Patients are more flexible and thus more independent. "Should these findings corroborate in other studies, this type of treatment could represent a new strategy in order to limit the effects of a stroke," said Professor Dr. med. Martin Grond of the German Society of Neurology. "That would be quite remarkable, because so far the therapeutic window for the use of drugs to a few hours after the insult limited", adds the head physician of district hospital Siegen.
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Charité developed novel methods for food control
The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has now developed a unique measurement method, which allows it within minutes statements, whether the life of a person is healthy or unhealthy. This method will now be tested with the support of the competence networks for optical technologies in the Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded pilot study with 50 pupils. The aim of the study is to investigate whether young people change their lifestyle and eating habits, if the consequences of an unhealthy diet or the effects of the last party with alcohol and nicotine consumption for they are made directly visible. In addition, students should be made closer acquainted with the current possibilities of optical technologies.
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Patients with inflammatory diseases or infections often suffer additionally from tiredness and fatigue, insomnia and even depression. Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University Hospital Erlangen around the physician Prof. Dr. Georg Schett have now figured out what triggers these symptoms. They identified a chemical messenger that controls communication between the immune system and the brain crucial. Their findings, scientists have published in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
For their study, the Erlangen researchers examined patients with rheumatoid arthritis, one of the most serious autoimmune diseases, as well as mice that show a very similar disease due to a genetic defect. Both humans and mice suffer from inflamed joints and the associated severe pain. In many cases there are also tiredness and exhaustion, sleep disorders and depression. It was previously known that these symptoms arise in the central nervous system. However, science has not yet been able to explain how the immune defense and inflammation in the joints affect the nervous system.
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Dangers of misuse, overdose and interactions
In Germany, according to estimates of the Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government is currently addicted to drugs 1,4 1,9 to millions of people. The Reader's Digest devotes his December issue extensively this issue, pointing to the risks and side effects and lists addresses where sufferers get a consultation. Experts like Ernst Pallenbach, specialist pharmacist of Clinical Pharmacy from Villingen-Schwenningen, warn to underestimate the consequences of drug dependence, "If addiction and dependence is mentioned, most people think of drugs or alcohol." Here there current estimates ten times more drug than drug addicts.
What perceive patients as important and right to pain relief, can easily and insidiously cause a dangerous habit. According to experts, five to six percent of the commonly prescribed drugs are addictive, if taken too long. Thus begins the body of painkillers patient after four to six weeks of acclimatization process. As a result, the patient increased the dose or change the drug to obtain the effect.
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The National Care Guideline (NVL) "back pain" is now available in version 1.0 on the Internet for download. The PDF document can be downloaded for free. A print version is planned.
Back pain in Germany cause direct costs of 8,4 billion euros per year. In addition, the indirect costs come by disability and early retirement - back pain takes many years to the statistics of events for medical rehabilitation and disability. Although there are numerous therapeutic services, and some of the treatment options were well studied in recent years. However, it can supply the patient still significantly improve in all areas.
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A new approach in the treatment of bladder infections describe Researchers from the University of Basel. In the current issue of the journal "Journal of Medicinal Chemistry" they represent a promising alternative to conventional antibiotic therapy in prospect. Bladder infections are the most common infections and up to one third of all antibiotics are used to combat it.
UTIs (urinary tract infections) among the most common infectious diseases. These are mainly to bacterial infections that are triggered in at least 80% of cases due to Escherichia coli (E. coli) from the natural, endogenous intestinal flora.
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The volume of prescribed by general practitioners antibiotics has increased by almost 25 percent in the past five years. This emerges from the latest health report of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), in which the prescriptions of the insured at the TK labor force have been analyzed. Thus, each subject received assistance 2009 daily doses of antibiotics in 5,1. 2004 4,1 there were daily doses.
"Particularly in light of the recurring debate about antibiotic resistance, this increase patients and physicians for this issue should again raise awareness," said Thomas Widmann, drug expert at TK. "Antibiotics are - deliberately used -... One of the most important and effective tool in the fight against bacterial infections other hand, an incorrect use exactly the opposite effect is why an accurate risk-benefit balance is when prescribing antibiotics attached"
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Distinguishing criteria and guideline for sudden headache
Mrs. M. is woke up with strong, hitherto unknown headache. She wonders: What should I do? Can I wait until the headache go back, take a headache tablet, or do I look for in a doctor help? Are my headaches dangerous, it is the well-known migraine or a new onset harmless headache? Such questions were affected in particular by the exceptional situation of pain.
In Germany, approximately ten percent of the people suffer in life under such sudden and unknown headache. "To detect life-threatening forms of headache, is the careful survey of medical history by a specialist in the first place," says PD Dr. Martin Marziniak, Senior Physician Department of Neurology, at the University Hospital Münster and member of the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG). Should instrumental tests to be unobtrusive, it can be a primary thunderclap headache with no known cause. "Like never headache" - - As a general rule, at most destruction headaches, unknown, severe or unusually prolonged headache or the presence of additional neurological symptoms, such as neck stiffness, impaired consciousness, hemiplegia or numbness, a doctor should be consulted immediately. Overall, this is about eight percent of all patients by a headache due to symptomatic, potentially life-threatening causes, this can also cause such as a heart attack or a tumor disease trigger headaches.
