Morbus Addison

Abstract. Addison’s disease is a primary adrenocortical insufficiency with a deficiency in corticosteroids and mineralocorticoids. The most common cause for a primary adrenocortical insufficiency in Western populations is an autoimmune ...

Meat Consumption and Cancer Risk – Should One Still Eat Meat?

Abstract.About 110 g of meat are consumed daily in Switzerland, including more than 40 g of processed meat. High consumption of red meat, in particular processed meat, was categorized as ...

Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding – a Tale about Red and Black Tarry Stools

Abstract. Gastrointestinal bleeding is frequently encountered in the emergency department as well as in an outpatient setting. Clinical presentation is heterogeneous and depends on ...

Patients with Active Implanted Medical Devices – Electromagnetic Fields at the Workplace

Abstract. Active implanted medical devices become less and less susceptible to electromagnetic fields in the normal environment. At the work place however, there may ...

Marathon Running Does Not Prevent Diabetes

Abstract. We report the case of a 64-year-old marathon runner with 990 successfully finished marathons. He was diagnosed and treated as diabetes mellitus type 2. However, there was no reduction of blood glucose ...