You may be surprised to learn that all the windows in our practice rooms are closed – even in summer and during pandemic periods.
For decades, oxygen has been given to heart attack patients as standard. However, this is not strictly necessary – and may even end up being detrimental to patients.
Asthmatics and patients with cardiac insufficiency are particularly at risk, but small children, senior citizens, pregnant women and the immunocompromised should also prepare themselves for the current wave of influenza with a vaccination.
For a long time, it was assumed that being slim protected against diabetes. According to new findings, however, around one in five people who are slim have a significantly increased risk of developing the disease.
Europeans and especially Germans like to follow many cultural developments in the USA with a certain delay.
After a few steps comes the pain – patients with window shattering are severely limited in their range of motion and quality of life. Resting, however, does not help.
It is not only in this country that the temperatures are gradually getting warmer; faraway places are also beckoning as holiday destinations. But travel vaccinations are indispensable for unadulterated holiday enjoyment. Because vaccinations are the most effective protection against pathogens.
If Germans were asked to guess which illness accounts for the most hospital admissions in this country – the answers would probably range from cancer to heart attacks and strokes to back problems.
The nutritional and related cardiological processes in the human body are far from being fully deciphered.
In 2014, around 25 percent more strokes were recorded among 20-64 year olds than two decades earlier. This trend is likely to continue. But everyone can effectively reduce their personal risk.