Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide - more common even than heart attacks. In most cases, the cause is long-term cigarette smoking. In the first few years, people notice ... Read More

Prof. Dr. Helgo Magnussen, Head of the Department of Pneumology at the Stephansplatz Hospital, and his research group at the Pneumological Research Institute at the LungenClinc Grosshansdorf have published an important paper on the role of inhaled cortisone ... Continue reading

How are digital ulcerations treated? The basic treatment of digital ulcerations includes regular local wound care, dressing exchange and pain management. Digital ulcerations are at risk of infection. Therefore, antibiotic administration is often necessary. Until 2008, there were ... Read more

What are digital ulcerations? Digital ulcerations are very painful and difficult to heal open wounds mostly on fingers and toes that leave scars. The ulcers impair the patients in the ... Read more

Breast cancer surgery is becoming increasingly gentle: breast-conserving surgery can be performed in more than 80% of women. And through the so-called "sentinel lymph node" technique, it is usually possible to avoid ... Read more

Often the diagnosis comes only when it is too late: after a heart attack or sudden cardiac death. Doctors from the German Heart Foundation complain that the number of people with the genetically hereditary and ... Read more

Cod liver oil used to be available because our grandparents and great-grandparents knew that children without adequate vitamin D intake were at risk of developing a bone disease called rickets. Particularly at risk were those children who ... Read More

A disease with many faces Systemic lupus erythematosus (also known as butterfly lupus) is a relapsing chronic inflammatory systemic or autoimmune disease and belongs to the group of collagenoses. Due to the wide range of symptoms and ... Read more

There is no single and clear symptom for SLE. Each lupus patient has an individual pattern of symptoms. This makes it difficult to recognize the disease. Almost always, patients feel ... Read More

Diseases with multiple and variable manifestations always bring difficulties in making a reliable and rapid diagnosis. Systemic lupus erythematosus is not easy to diagnose. Often, the disease begins insidiously and resembles other diseases due to a variety of symptoms. ... Read more