Tag: Medicine
Air rescue: everything for a life
Many take it for granted that the rescue helicopter will come in the event of a mountain or swimming accident. But behind the missions there is enormous logistics and the…
Medicine: Die less badly – knowledge
To die is not nice. That is clear, and medicine as a research and treatment discipline is doing everything to postpone the finiteness of human beings at least a little.…
The Eternal Virus: Why Covid-19 Could Be a Historic Moment – Culture
from Andrian Kreye Every now and then it’s just a small gesture that shows how social debates shift. For example, the fact that the decisive text on the long-term strategy…
Michael Winterhoff: "This is not a correct diagnosis, but a vulgar analytical assessment"
The psychiatrist Michael Winterhoff is said to have sedated children with medication for years. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Renate Schepker explains what is problematic about his diagnoses and treatment methods…
Animal experiments: EU enforces stricter rules in Germany – knowledge
Cables on the head of a monkey, mice in a labyrinth or rats with a syringe: such images of animal experiments hardly leave anyone untouched. So recently in Tübingen: Researchers…
Medical fallacies: if questionable treatments last a long time – health
Medicine has a long history of trial and error – questionable treatment methods persist to this day. But not only doctors, also patients find it difficult to part with beloved…
Medicine: mistakes in medicine
Medicine has a long history of trial and error – questionable treatment methods persist to this day. But not only doctors, also patients find it difficult to part with beloved…
How Long Covid Patients Can Be Helped – Health
from Berit Uhlmann Much is still not understood and some of the complaints that Covid patients go through weeks to months after their acute phase of illness are still puzzling.…
How long Covid patients can be helped – knowledge
Of Berit Uhlmann Much is still not understood and some are puzzling about the complaints that Covid patients go through weeks to months after their acute phase of illness. Now…
“New”, “disaster medicine”, caregivers facing the ravages of the delta variant
“Sixteen deaths in a weekend for 400,000 inhabitants, it is unprecedented … and dramatic”, breathes Yvan, liberal nurse in Guadeloupe. For two weeks, the Overseas region has suffered a wave…