Representative survey on flu now in HEALTHY LIVING

Vaccination against swine flu is especially a good deal for the pharmaceutical industry: This believe 71 percent of Germans. Only 25 percent consider vaccination medically advisable. These are figures from a representative exclusive survey, which gave the health magazine HEALTHY LIVING for its current issue (issue 01 / 2010 currently commercially) in order and for which the institution 1037 people aged 18 interviewed Gewis in November to 65 years.

When asked "What are you doing about the flu?" 66 percent of men and 55 percent of women said they were not taking any special protective measures against possible infection. Only eight percent of all respondents (ten percent of women) wash their hands frequently as an effective flu protection - but 30 percent regularly take the overestimated and ineffective vitamin C.

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Study of a New Zealand doctoral award-winner

A first developed in New Zealand method could help physicians better diagnose stomach problems, such as chronic indigestion.

Peng You, doctoral candidate at the Bioengineering Institute at The University of Auckland has used for his study, in conventional electrodes to measure the electrical activity of the stomach, the Top Student Award at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference in Minnesota, USA won. In the process of flexible electrodes are placed on the stomach surface of patients who undergo surgery to open the abdomen. The electrodes cover approximately seventy percent of the stomach top.

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What disease caused by whom and in what healthcare facility which costs? Why health care costs of women exceed those of men by almost 36 billion euros? In what diseases the highest costs are in the elderly due and how in children and adolescents? Medical expenses are the subject of 48. Issue of health reporting (GBE), it comprises around 30 pages. The new GBE booklet "medical expenses" concludes a three-part number of economic considerations of health services under the Federal Health Monitoring System. Earlier, the GBE booklets 45 (expenditure and financing of health care) and 46 appeared (healthcare workers).

In 2006 the German economy caused by diseases direct costs totaling approximately 236 billion euros. It is all about the cost of the purpose of ambulatory and (partly) inpatient care provided diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or nursing services. This also includes the so related consumption of drugs and supplies, and the use of denture services.

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Obesity, malnutrition and diabetes - What does this mean for the liver?

The liver is a storage and metabolic organ of our body. It ensures that, among other carbohydrates and proteins are converted into fat. If they entrusted with too much responsibilities, then can develop a condition called fatty liver quickly. "Previously it was believed that only alcohol abuse a fatty liver may develop," says Prof. Dr. Peter Galle, board member of the food service industry Liga eV occasion of 10. German Liver Day (November 20. 2009).

Meanwhile it is clear that poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise can also provide for the development of fatty liver. It can then cirrhosis and liver cancer occur. Fatty liver affects a large part of the population, with estimates ranging from ten to 30 percent. Previously went Experts assume that only a small proportion of them develop a fatty liver inflammation, which can lead to complications such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. "Today, we estimate that approximately five to 15 percent of fatty liver patients in Germany, that up to three million people are suffering from a fatty liver inflammation," said Prof. Galle. The non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLE) describes a disease spectrum that fatty liver (steatosis hepatitis), the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fatty liver cirrhosis includes.

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New drugs for chronic hepatitis C in registration

Liver diseases are often underestimated and often go unnoticed. The vast majority of those affected unaware of a possible disease because a diseased liver does not hurt and late shows relatively non-specific symptoms. Poor diet, obesity and fatty liver so often count today as a major cause of liver inflammation. However, alcohol abuse, and infection with hepatitis-viruses are responsible for a large part of diseases.

play a smaller role autoimmune liver disease, genetic disorders such as hemochromatosis, side effects of drugs or other infections of the liver, for example, by bacteria. The therapeutic possibilities of various liver diseases are constantly updated with the partially completely new approaches. "Currently, there are two new drugs against chronic hepatitis C virus infection in the phase III of the approval process," said Prof. Dr. Michael P. Manns, CEO of Deutsche Liver Foundation, on the occasion of 10. German Liver Day, of the 20. November 2009 takes place. These are HCV protease inhibitors, which reduce the replication of the hepatitis C virus via a specific inhibition of HCV protease. Many studies with these new drugs show that the viral infection is healed more common in shorter duration of therapy.

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The German MILLER Prize and 10.000 euros go to Greifswald

Since 1908 by the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine ( ) awarded in honor of the pioneer of dentistry, Professor Willoughby Dayton Miller (1853-1907), goes this year to a Greifswald research group.

On the occasion of the German dentist-day in Munich the price in early November was Dr. Careen Spring Man and Prof. Thomas Kocher transferred to the Working Group of Greifswald dental clinic with the pharmacologist Prof. Peter Meisel and dental professionals in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz honored. The scientists from the University Dental Clinic Greifswald convinced the panel of experts with their research results on relations between the population coverage with magnesium and dental health.

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Viruses in the environment hardly survivable

The fact that the new flu - originally known as swine flu - has nothing to do with pigs and hence will not be transmitted through pork, is now known. But can be transmitted through food flu viruses when they are processed by infected persons and not heated before consumption? The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) assesses this risk as very low. Indirect transmission of the virus from an infected person through a food to another person is unlikely. The stability of the influenza viruses in the environment and on food depends on the strain of the virus, but it is considered by BfR as low. However, currently there are no valid data on the stability of the H1N1 virus on foods and oral infectious dose.

The route of infection via contaminated food is unusual and has not been described for the new influenza H1N1, the BfR. a case was described for the "bird flu" H5N1 wherein in Asia two men had apparently infected by eating contaminated duck blood. In this case, the ducks were ill themselves.

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Individual therapy and dosage required.

The importance of intestinal flora in certain diseases has been discovered about the year 1900. Likewise, the use of living microorganisms that can be used promote health in humans in the treatment of certain diseases. These so-called probiotics but studied only since the 80-ies the principles of evidence-based medicine and evaluated, more recently, in critically ill patients in intensive care units. In total, there are eight direct studies on the effect of probiotics in seriously ill patients.

The results vary, three studies assessing the use of positive, balanced three and two negative. "Certain Probiotikastämme such as Lactobacillus strains can have a positive impact on selected diseases and patients," said Prof. Dr. Stephan C. Bischoff, Director of the Institute of Nutrition of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, for a conference of the German Society for nutritional medicine (DGEM) in Swabia Irsee. Thus, the use, for example, in acute, infectious diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease is (ulcerative colitis), quite irritable bowel syndrome, in infants with severe intestinal inflammation and antibiotic-associated diarrhea sense. Meta-analyzes, which have more than 1.000 patients included had, confirms this. It was important to specifically look where probiotics are effective and they do not use a flat rate. So on the other hand, the use in critically ill patients and patients should be assessed much more critical in an ICU, as these people often the intestine as a whole is so damaged that probiotics there more harm than help.

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The bacterial toxin botulinum toxin A - better known as "Botox" - can help patients who suffer from chronic migraine. As experts reported today at the annual meeting of the German Society of Neurology in Nürnberg, two large studies have shown that the injection of small amounts of botulinum toxin in the head, face, and neck muscles leads to a significant improvement of the disease.

Known and often smiled at as a wrinkle tightener for aging film stars and constantly grinning managers, the bacterial toxin botulinum toxin A ("Botox") may have a new career as a drug against chronic migraines: A study with almost 1400 European and North American patients has shown that injections with the toxin reduced the number of headache days within four weeks significantly more than the injection of an ineffective sham substance (placebo).

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Endurance sports like running, swimming and cycling keep the brain fit. As experts reported at the annual meeting of the German Society of Neurology in Nuremberg, has a large number of recent studies that physical activity may even protect against Alzheimer's disease, so as depression and strokes

"Every adult should be physically active for at least 30 minutes a day," advises neurology professor and successful triathlete Barbara Tettenborn. With this comparatively small amount of effort, the risk of a stroke could be reduced by a quarter, reported the chief physician at the Department of Neurology at the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital and associate professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

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Animal foods come most when it comes to vitamins probably not just the first to mind. But just in meat, fish and eggs infected a representative who plays an important role for the brain power especially for the elderly.

"This is the age" often is the profane diagnosis when in the elderly, the memory is running low, the ability to learn decreases or simply adamant keep seniors on old beliefs and allow any new changes. But not always have cognitive limitations necessarily an evil of the aging process. A frequently overlooked cause or contributing cause are usually low Vitamin B12 plasma levels of older people.

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