Abstract. Alcohol consumption is widely spread in Switzerland. Only a small part of the population is completely abstinent, approximately 250 000 persons are addicted to alcohol. The damage ...

Abstract. The Swiss Society for General and Internal Medicine prescribes 30 hours of self-study to its members. How do they practice this? In our survey we found that ...

Abstract. Background: Efficacy of oral treatment in infants and young children with acute pyelonephritis has recently been shown. No systematic data regarding the frequency of ...

Abstract. Low back pain is frequent and in approximately 90 % of cases no specific underlying disease can be identified. A simplistic biomechanical explanatory approach leads to ...

Abstract. It is possible to treat lateral sided malleolar fractures conservatively with a cast or a walker of the low extremity. The precondition for this treatment is the ...

Abstract. Hoarding is a behavior characterized by excessive accumulation and failure to discard large amounts of objects. It is associated with different psychopathological mechanisms. The behavior occurs in connection with ...