Overview - Current Debates in Medicine

The wheel keeps turning - in medicine, too. The point in time when all experts without exception agree on certain theories will hardly ever be reached. Therefore, debates keep arising - which is a good thing. The new series at MEDICA.de is concerned with the most current controversies in medicine.

Multiple Sclerosis: New Approaches

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The illness may cause severe disabilities in youngish people. Why? Scientists do not know. Multiple sclerosis is a mysterious neurological disease and the search for new therapeutic approaches is an urgent issue. Now, attention has been drawn towards worms. Multiple Sclerosis: New Approaches - Click here for our part VI of the series: Multiple Sklerosis - New Approaches

Decubitus: The Unknown

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It hits people that lie in hospitals, nursing homes or at home. Nobody knows how many exactly suffer from a bedsore but experts estimate that the costs sum up to many millions of Euros. However, it is possible to prevent a decubitus - not always, though.

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Stroke: Care with Stumbling Blocks

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A stroke is like a bolt from the blue. Many times the consequence is a lifelong disability. Research into prevention and rehabilitation of the disease makes progress but the results reach the patients in clinical everyday life only slowly.

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Gender in Medicine: The Slight Difference

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In everyday life people keep being concerned with the apparently big difference between men and women. However, only slowly sex and gender start being of great importance in medicine bringing advantages for all patients – male or female.

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Cancer Screening: Little Certainty with Risks

Screenings for cervical, breast, colorectal and skin cancer are all part of public health insurance in Germany, millions of healthy people go routinely to the doctor. Despite the fact, that the benefit for most measures has not yet been proven. Even worse: Most patients do not get proper information about the risks.

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Vaccination: The Controversial Prick

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The opinions regarding vaccinations are very different: They cover a wide spectrum reaching from people totally opposing vaccines to those advocating them in any situation. However, who is right? A guideline could be true to the motto: As much as necessary, as little as possible.

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