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Physicians in the US criticize the excessive use of implantable defibrillators in cardiac patients. Those expensive machines would be implanted too often in patients not having been examined for them. The result: Hardly any medical benefit and poor cost effectiveness.
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New results provided by researchers from Basel/Switzerland give new hope to physicians: The diagnostic identification of the activation status of the body's own interferon system in liver biopsies enable prognoses about the chances of success of therapy and applied antiviral drugs. The discovery of the researchers: The more active the genes, the lower the chances.
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Parents no longer have to drop everything and run whenever their child hurts in day care. In simple cases the computer with internet connection and camera provides first aid. The system does not only function in case of a sore throat but also demonstrably with a low budget in healthcare.
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The Hungarian pharmacologist Nikolaus Jancso was one of the first to isolate Capsaicin the hot substance from chili and paprika to experiment with it. He set the basis for Capsaicin research with it in medicine at the University of Graz/Austria among others. But lately the pain therapy with the chilli extract sustains bitter setbacks.
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