Extortion: Former physician must answer for himself before court

Extortion: Former physician must answer for himself before court

A former neurosurgeon and its administrative boss were accused of joint extortion. Between 2004 and 2005 are the two additional costs of some patients of the district hospital Bühl demanded habten, in order to accomplish operations. Both deny the act. The judgement is to fall in the middle of Decembers.

Baden-Baden - a former physician of the district hospital Bühl and the ex administrative boss of the hospital must answer for themselves for Monday because of joint extortion before the regional court Baden-Baden. The 68-jährige neurosurgeon is to have required 2004 and 2005 under reference to allegedly particularly expensive implants donations at a value of 3000 to 5000 euros of patients with painful spinal column illnesses. Other case one is to have placed than Konsiliararzt the active medical profession later operation dates in prospect or the patients to other hospitals have referred. The demanded donations were paid in at least eight cases to the district hospital.

The neurosurgeon denied the reproach of the extortion. Its procedure was “completely normally”, said the German Iranian. Such donations to a hospital with particularly expensive operations are “common” in the USA, where it worked a time long. It wanted to help the hospital financially which is at pressure in this way in Bühl.

Administrative chief is to have known everything

“It did not have, said moral pangs of conscience” the physician, who implemented about 350 operations according to own data for the 70's in the year. The judge asked it whether a compulsion did not lie in it that he is to have said patients, her could only in three years is operated, if they did not pay the donation. Whereupon the accused said: “That was not a compulsion. All 20 kilometers there are someone, similar operations makes nevertheless.” The patients could have gone also into another hospital. The accused - a formerly appreciative specialist for spinal column illnesses - is today no more than physician actively.

From view of the public prosecutor's office extortion is present, because the costs of the necessary implants would have been taken off by the drop lump sums of the legal and private health insurances in each case. The prosecutors assume the 39-jährige former administrative chief, which had signed the appropriate donation receipts, into which punishable practice was inaugurated.

Account fraud in nine cases accused

The accused physician said, it had made the proposal require such donations. The ex administrative boss contradicted that vehemently: It gave, stressed “no request meinerseits to a advertisement of the donations” it. It gave “no arrangements and no act plan”. When it experienced from complaints of patients because of the donations, it forbade to the physician to call further donations in because this no good light throws on the hospital.

It is correct that it signed the donation receipts. “I however always proceeded from content and rich patients, who wanted to do”, said the 39-Jährige to the hospital of something property.

The public prosecutor's office accuses to that neurosurgeons besides in nine cases account fraud and - in connection with three alleged treatment errors - negligent bodily injury. For the process six days of the hearing are set. 21 witnesses and two experts are to be heard. The judgement is expected on 9 December. With extortion threaten up to five year detention

Life with multiple sclerosis

Life with multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a chronically inflammatory Entmarkungserkrankung of the central nervous system. The causes of the incurable illness are not clarified until today. The process can be affected however. Groups of self-helps can help affected to lead a to a large extent normal life.

Duesseldorf - sometimes it is a strange feeling in the legs, extreme tiredness or a visual disturbance. In addition, problems during the emptying of intestine or uncertainties can be when going and standing. Apparently little things - nevertheless it can be meaningful to visit a neurologist: All these symptoms can be first signs for a multiple sclerosis, ms abbreviated. With this chronic inflammation the own immune system attacks the isolating coverings of the nerve cells and their cables in the brain and back Mark and damages it.

A clear diagnosis is however not completely simple, because most symptoms can occur also with other diseases. After a detailed discussion of disease history will the physician from there a neurological investigation would drive through, in order to test, how strongly which nerve function is impaired. In addition also attention and memory tests belong. “Here falls some patients
up that already early signs for the illness give it have. They were taken however frequently not seriously”, explain Hans Peter Hartung, director of the neurological hospital at the University of Duesseldorf and deputy chairmen of the medical adviser of the German multiple Sklerose-company.

Mostly women are concerned

To be supplemented these tests can approximately by an investigation of the back Mark liquid - on the one hand, in order to look for inflammation markers, and on the other hand, in order to exclude other illnesses than a cause of the disturbances. Also a magnetresonanztomographische admission considers Hartung necessary: “Here both current herd of inflammation and vernarbte places of faded away inflammations in the brain can be recognized, even if no disease symptoms are”.

Despite the always far improved methods, then in the year 2001 the ms register introduced to Germany shows, lasts it on the average three and a half years, until a clear diagnosis is placed. Most concerning are then between 20 and 40 years old. Why it meets straight it and why more than twice as frequently gets sick to women like men, is so far still unclear. A genetic assessment seems partial to play a role. Also environmental factors such as viruses are discussed as causers.

Multiple sclerosis arises schubweise

If the suspicion on ms was once confirmed, equal most concerning accept the worst. “Many patients see themselves sitting in the wheelchair, if they hear their diagnosis - the probability for a good process is with appropriate treatment very highly”, calms down Hartung. The ms progresses not necessarily inexorably and continuously, but in most cases arises in thrusts, between which breaks for many years and frequently also a recovery of the symptoms can lie.

The most typical and most well-known complaints are movement disturbances, Spastik and powerlessness in the legs, which limit the mobility of the concerning ever more. Which therapy is used, depends thereby particularly on the development of the illness. Here a process documentation helps.

Since ms is so far not more curable, a therapy is to affect above all the disease process favorably. During an acute thrust in addition usually highly proportioned cortisone is given. Its entzündungshemmende effect is to introduce and accelerate the recovery of the symptoms. With a heavy thrust a blood laundry can be effective.

Inflammations must be contained

On a long-term basis is besides a basis therapy the inflammations to contain and new thrusts prevent or it at least moderate. Usually thereby active substances are used such as beta interferon, which modify the reactions of the immune system in such a way that the attack on the body-own fabric is absorbed. If they do not fasten, a Immunsuppressivum can be used, that the immune system altogether suppressed. Meanwhile also a so-called monoklonarer antibody is available, which can be used after risk use consideration.

For the receipt of the quality of life of the concerning the treatment of the individual symptoms is particularly important beside the basis and to the thrust therapy - finally they are it, which determine the everyday life. With the decision, which therapy is applicable, also the contact can help to a group of self-helps.

Groups of self-helps help

However many, in order to accept their diagnosis and this step go, white Christa Andretta, spokeswoman of a group of self-helps need time concerned for ms-concerned in Aachen, from own experience. “Younger concerning are interested above all in it, how it continues with occupation, training and family, during itself older rather over medicines and therapies exchange”, explain them. Occasionally also lectures are offered, which are to inform new group members.

Otherwise one meets once in the month for playing, meal or simply for talking. “With the time one speaks however more rarely about the illness, but enjoys rather the society”, says Andretta. Because the illness has also a social component: Ms patients live frequently very in an isolated manner and have sometimes also no more possibility of attaching contacts. Andretta stresses: “A group of self-helps can offer at least a small alternation.” (strip packing)

Trade paper loads for conference with health experts

Trade paper loads for conference with health experts

The health funds is decided thing, but satisfaction does not prevail. Above all fear the hospitals that finances for a sufficient supply will not be sufficient. Experts from the health service meet to 24. and 25 November in Berlin, in order to discuss the prospects of the health fund and the future of the health service.

Frankfurt/Berlin - also after the decided standard rate of the health insurance fees further planning uncertainty exists for the health insurance companies. “The speculative household list is to be answered for from the policy to and can as respectable be designated”, does not say the chairman of the board of the German employee health insurance scheme (DAK) Herbert Reb. “The government makes the health insurance company executive committees in times, in which everything of the bank and financial crisis speaks, speculators.”

Experts meet in Berlin

Also Rolf Hober, chairman of the general local health insurance company (compulsory health insurance scheme) Baden-Wuerttemberg pflichtet it. “Federal health minister Ulla Schmidt explained to determine the rate of contribution in such a way 2009 that the expenditures of the cashes are covered to 100 per cent. With a rate of contribution from 15,5 per cent would mean that, which go back, explain intended additional costs of the health insurance companies for the hospital sector clearly” Hober.

Whether the prospects are actually so dark and the uniform rate of contribution on health insurance companies and Leistungserbringer will have which effects, discusses experts on the trade paper conference of this year of 24. until 25 November in Berlin. Beside the Secretary of State of the Federal Ministry for health, Klaus Theo Schröder, among other things Norbert Klusen, chairman of the board of the technicians health insurance company, which chairmen of the board of the under health insurance Federal union, Andreas's Köhler, Rolf Hober and Herbert of Reb lectures to hold, become.

Excursion in the deep sleep: Sleep-change with children

Excursion in the deep sleep
Excursion in the deep sleep: Sleep-change with children

At least each tenth child under 15 years sleep-changes. That is the result of a study of the technicians health insurance company. imedo explains, how small sleep transducers come reliably by the night.

Patients are right to participation with choice of the Reha hospital

Patients are right to participation with choice of the Reha hospital

The problem is well-known: who requests a cure with a legal health insurance company, this gets often only once rejected. The reasons for the refusal are however simply too expensive variously, in most cases a cure the cashes. In a court decision it was now decided that the patient has quite a say with the selection of his Reha hospital

Darmstadt - legally has requirement on a clinical rehablitation patient-insured, if their state of health requires this. With the selection of the hospital the cash must consider the special needs and desires of the insured one, how the Hessian national social court decided in Darmstadt.

The plaintiff obstructed to 80 per cent had requested a cure in a specialized clinic for naturopathy and holistic medicine in the year 2000. The cash rejected the request, although the insured one had been already treated some years before in the same hospital with good success. Thereupon the insured one decided to a Reha treatment at the own expense and complained at the same time against the negative reply.

Cash must pay cure also retroactively

While the social court rejected the complaint, the national social court gave right to the plaintiff. Like that the stationary treatment was also promising in the case of the insured one necessarily and after statement of the treating physicians. The cash must the cure in addition also retroactively pay, since the plaintiff waited for first the decision of the insurance and only afterwards for treatment at the own expense decided. Up to a final judicial decision the insured one did not have to postpone the cure treatment, how the national social court judged.

Child protection by “culture of the Miteinanders”

Child protection by “culture of the Miteinanders”

Lea Sophie, Kevin, Dennis, Michelle - one connects these names with child abusing, abuse and neglects. Much was demanded after these cases. Some was already reached. With the symposium “the threatened child” in Coburg became clear: a co-operation of all is important to the protection of children.

Coburg - family Secretary of State Melanie Huml (CSU) demanded a “culture of the Miteinanders” to the protection of children from abusing and neglect. “Parents must be supported with signs by excessive demand in time”, said Huml on Saturday with the symposium “the threatened child” of the clinical center in Coburg.

Common acting of all participants is locally necessary. Child and juvenile welfare service, health range, school, police and law would have to pull together on a strand. The establishment of social early warning systems is of central importance in this connection.

Measures to the protection

The municipalities were supported starting from 2009 during the mechanism by so-called coordinating child protection places financially by the Free State. They are to bundle concerned occupational groups and institutions according to Huml the authority of all with children and guarantee an intensified exchange.

Further improvements were reached after the words of the Secretary of State by legal initiatives. So early recognition investigations are obligating for May. Besides the report obligation was legally embodied by physicians and midwives to youth welfare offices, if they determine clear reference points for an endangerment of the child well-being. (strip packing)

Fever with the child: Antibiotics not always necessarily

Fever with the child: Antibiotics not always necessarily

If the child is ill and even fever has, many parents are in concern and seize often too fast to antibiotics. This is not attached however always

Weimar - antibiotics are valid in many families as a kind general-purpose weapon against illnesses. Frequently a therapy with these medicines is however not at all necessary. “Fever alone is still no cause for a treatment with antibiotics”, says Monika Niehaus, child and youth lady doctor in Weimar. It guesses/advises to be waiting with unclear symptoms only once before one gives antibiotics to the child. Possibly the complaints of alone again fade away. However this step should be co-ordinated in principle with the family doctor.

With bacterial infections antibiotic employment is indicated

Not to hesitate one should according to Niehaus with clearly bacterial infection, for example with an Streptokokken angina. “With such Infekten children react usually very well to antibiotics”, say the Medizinerin. Parents, which partout here an antibiotic employment rejects, die the risk that their child suffers heavy kidney or heart illnesses as consequence of the infection

Laser attack on goal keeper Vander could have gone into the eye

Laser attack on goal keeper Vander could have gone into the eye

With the League play Panathinaikos Athens against Werder Bremen threatened champions on Wednesday of the arbitrators with an abort, because that had been dazzled of Bremen goal keeper Christian Vander repetitive with a laser pointer. This action was not only high-grade unsportlich, but for Vander also serious health consequences could.

Duesseldorf - laser gains straight in the eye medicine ever more significance. With laser beams opticians Netzhautkrankheiten can heal or treat defective visions. And one continues to work ever on new applications.

But laser has also its negative sides. With him one cannot only heal but also injure eyes with difficulty. Straight ones in the past months accumulate themselves the messages over purposeful attacks with laser pointers bespielsweise on pilots or completely up-to-date on the Keeper of Werder Bremen, Christian Vander. Peter Hering, director of the institute for laser medicine at the University of Duesseldorf, explained on-line” opposite “world: “The green laser pointers are ten times stronger than red and have a stronger glare than the sun.” With a Techno party in Russia several visitors suffered heavy eye injuries with a Lasershow. At the latest since then it might be certain that laser pointers are not toys. “Everyone, which deals with such an equipment, should be conscious the Gefahrenpotenzials, which assumes that, warns” stronghold Helbig, director of the university University of Regensburg. Therefore the professional association of the opticians guesses/advises to careful and responsible handling lasers.

Irreversible damage possible

“Laser light meets it the retina, can in simple cases to a glare of the sensory cells without structural damage come, which after minutes again “Helbig the first symptoms improves, explains. „Most humans know this phenomenon also from other bright sources of light.” In addition, during stronger or longer effect of the laser light on the retina an irreversible fabric damage could arise. “The described loss of seeing, how we know it after glare, does not regress again completely. This can lead to the lasting loss of central seeing and the read ability “, makes clear the expert. Laser beams proceed almost parallel from the source of light. Strong bundling makes high irradiancy possible, which can damage above all the retina of the eye.

Also light emitting diodes (LED), which ever more frequently for flashlights or than Fahrrad-Beleuchtung are used, can be perhaps just as dangerous for the eyes as laser beams. Also with them from there careful handling should be maintained. Both, LED and lasers, should be never directed toward the eyes. If a laser beam should meet nevertheless once in the eye, the eyes should be closed and the head from the jet be turned. Lasers and LED should be never regarded at the radiation source with magnifying glasses or other optical instruments.

Above all be valid it to avoid laser damage to the eye says refuge Helbig. „Visual disturbances after exposure of the eye with a laser arise if nevertheless, should visit one immediately an optician. He can try a treatment also highly proportioned Cortison, in order to keep the permanent damage as small as possible. “

Amy Winehouse obviously suicide-endangers

Amy Winehouse obviously suicide-endangers

It would be beautifully, if one could say, in the life of the Amy Winehouse goes off it on and, but it unfortunately goes obviously only downward. World-wide bets run around its death date, it excited further attention with crashes and catastrophic appearances. Friends of the singer let announce now that Amy carries with serious suicide thoughts.

London - Amy Winehouse threatened allegedly to take itself with a measurer the life. She sees no more sense to live further. According to reports sit down it a measurer to the chest. It should be possessed by the idea of early death. When you rejected an early dismissal momentarily for 27 months arrested husband Blake falling the civil, the condition of the singer was to have still further worsened. Already in the last weeks there were again and again statements of friends, after whom their circle of friends in a kind guard becomes detached, so that Amy Winehouse alone at home is not. The 25-year old feels imprisoned for own data “in a nightmare”.

Live nearly, Love hard, the Young

“A friend of the singer told DAILY star” to the English newspaper that she wishes herself death. “Your feelings rev up. It is either the whole time on drugs or suicide-endangered, as soon as it hears somewhat, it does not please.” It has the wrong friends and is absolutely fascinated by the former singer of the “Sex Pistols”, Sid Vicious, that the slogan “Live nearly, Love hard, which had preached Young”. “No fear of death has you and believes, that is their regulation”, describes the friend.

Scientology offers custom-made withdrawal program

As if this all enough would not be bad, betrayed an acquaintance of Amy Winehouse the English sheet “Sunday Mirror” that the Scientology sect had obviously taken up contact to it. Their a “custom-made withdrawal program” would have been offered, for which Amy would not have to go into a hospital. According to data of the “Sunday Mirror” think it “seriously concerning” accepting the offer. The dislike of the singer in relation to Entzugseinrichtungen is at the latest since its hit “Rehab” no more secret.

Wrong diagnoses with food allergies

Wrong diagnoses with food allergies

Unreasonable test procedures, did not specialize physicians: Allergies are not recognized at all often wrongly or. Many humans falsely proceed from a food incompatibility, however actually suffer from other things. Each third adult suffers according to estimate of experts at a Allgerie, only each tenth is however correctly recognized.

Erfurt - food allergies are very frequently wrongly diagnosed according to estimate by experts. “There is a number of unreasonable test procedures through not specialized physicians, who cost, criticized patients much suffering and money” the president for Wednesday of the German congress of allergy meeting in Erfurt, Thomas's fox. Many humans believed to react allergisch to certain food or additives. However only about two to three per cent of the adults and four per cent of the children at a genuine food incompatibility would actually suffer.

Peanut allergy particularly dangerously

The search for the causes is difficult and requires often correct detective work. Bio resonance tests or magnetism are however unsuitable for it, said fox. It warned of one-sided diets due to procedures, which were unsuitable for the diagnosis of food allergies. At the same time the danger of these allergies may not be underestimated. If the concerning would not avoid the allergy causes, this could end mortally, warned fox.

The peanut allergy is most dangerous, said the first chairman of the society for Pädiatri Allergologie and environmental medicine, Albrecht Bufe. “Peanut all genes are very aggressive and can lead fast to a life-threatening anaphylaktischen shock.” They are taken up according to Bufe both over the mouth mucous membranes and over the respiratory system. Particularly with children are peanut allergies on the advance. Allergies would generally begin mostly at the childhood age.

Asthma and hay cold far spread

According to Bufe suffer up to seven per cent of the 5 - to 15-Jährigen in Germany at Neurodermitis, up to twelve per cent at asthma and up to 15 per cent would have hay cold. For their specializedmedical supply however straight once 460 Kinder-und of youth physicians with allergologischer further training would be available.

With allergies the immune system arranges itself inadvertently against harmless substances such as Pollen or dust, which estimates it as dangerous. In the opinion of experts each third adult at an allergy in the meantime already suffers. Thereby the breath way allergies are most frequent. According to estimations of the specialists only about each tenth Allergiker is correctly therapiert. In Erfurt those still exchange approximately 1000 participants of the congress up to Saturday new scientific realizations. The conference is organized together for the third time by the three allergologischen specialized companies. (DPA)

Organ donation becomes the state affair

Organ donation becomes the state affair

Last year the number of the organ donors lay in Germany on the highest conditions since beginning of the organ donation. The numbers for this year are less pleasing. 12,000 humans wait in Germany for a donor organ. Many humans die, because no organ can be arranged for them. The Federal Government wants to create remedy with a large action.

Berlin - “morning knew I not, comes the liver or comes death”, tells Peter Hellriegel. It is 44 years old, father of three children and it got before two years a donor organ. 12,000 humans are similarly as it before two years, it live with the uncertainty and wait for donor organs. Many of them will die. Either because they are taken aufrung their bad general state promptly by the waiting list or because it to for a long time for a donor organ to wait to have. In the Federal Republic only about 4000 donor organs are available.

Only each sixth has a donor document of identification

According to a current IPSOS inquiry two thirds of the Germans would be ready to donate after their dying organs but only each sixth actually possesses a donor document of identification. That is to now change. In October ten million donor documents of identification as supplement in the magazines “pharmacies Umschau” and “baby and family to be found will have”.

“That is one of the largest actions for the increase of the organ PEND readiness, which gave, says it in Germany so far” to federal health minister Ulla Schmidt. “More than four million humans visit daily one of the 21,500 pharmacies, which are with their niedrigschwelligem health offer an ideal place for prevention and health clearing-up”, add the president of the federal pharmacy chamber, Magdalene Linz.

Reasons for restraint are different

The reasons for the low donor numbers are different. On the one hand many potential donors felt not sufficiently enlightened, and on the other hand the readiness is too small on the part of the hospitals with the foundation to co-operate, says the executive committee of the foundation Organtransplantation (DSO), Thomas Beck. According to its data daily three humans die, because they waited in vain for donor organ.

New medicine Inhalator: more cheaply and more efficiently

New medicine Inhalator: more cheaply and more efficiently

Who is dependent on a regular medicine income and must these possibly even squirt itself, in more near future will be able to draw a deep breath. In an exemplary, specializedspreading co-operation scientists in Israel invented a Medikamenteninhalator, which is based on the turbine technology of airplanes.

Tel Aviv - straight line in the medicine becomes the co-operation of the most diverse fields of activity ever more importantly. But that once specialists for jets would make an invention gemeisam with the medical profession it would so probably have expected, nobody. Thus happen in Israel. There a Medikamenteninhalator was invented, which is substantially more favorably in the production and more efficient in the active substance delivery than past products on the market, for example asthma sprays. Ian Solomon, managing director of the company Aespironics, explained for this that Inhalatoren can do many more, than working only against asthma, one can fill as well as each medicine into a Inhalator. “Even if pills are very common, are not them not really the most effective Medikantenform”, say Solomon. “You must go through the digestive tract and through the entire body to arrive usually over at completely different place.” If the medicine would come however from a Inhalator, it would go to the place, at which it was used.

Inhalator instead of syringe or pill

In order to deliver the filled in medicine from the Inhalator again, the company avails itself of the turbine technology from aviation. A tiny, turbine activated by the inhalation digs the active substance particles off inside the Inhalators and blows it into a breathing air. The dose depends thus on the respiratory volume. The particles will with air directly into the lung brought, of where out they are directly into the bloodstream advisablely and very fast at the place, at which they are needed. Since that can be filled the Inhalator with almost any medicine, in the future protective inoculations or diabetes injections could be inhaled. Vaccination campaigns could be substantially more largely put on due to the favorable manufacturing costs, also the fear of syringes would be past.

After the first test phases are final now and are announced in the effect way a patent, resuming tests are to be started for the end of this yearly. In approximately three years Aespironics counts on the introduction on the market.

European Union study: German seniors have early age complaints

European Union study: German seniors have early age complaints

The German seniors cut European Union widths off in the health comparison badly. Older humans in this country have the few free and years beyond the 50. The Danes live on average eleven years healthier and more freely and than the Germans. The study also pointed out, which factors are responsible for it.

London - in European Union widths the comparison to the health of humans at the age lie German men and women in the rear centre zone. Thus itself German 50-jährige men and women on average can on further in each case 13.5 recovers and free and years to make happy, while there is with the front runner Denmark approximately 24 years, as a European researcher team found out around Carol Jagger of the university in Leicester. In the direct comparison with the large and densely populated European Union member states France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain cut off Germany at the so-called “healthy years of life over 50 ″ even most badly. Their results present the researchers in the specialist journal “The Lancet”.

All 25 European Union countries evaluated

The scientists gathered population and health statistics as well as economic characteristic data in their work such as gross domestic product, expenditures for health, unemployment and education conditions from the 25 European Union member states from the year 2005. From this no trend can be read off over the years, but found the researchers unexpected differences between the individual countries as well as the group of the 15 old European Union countries (under it Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark) and the ten in the year 2004 joined predominantly eastern countries (under it Poland, the three Baltic States of, Hungary, Czech Republic).

On the average the 25 European Union countries could 50-jährige European men and women expect to live up to an age of 67,6 and/or 69.1 years without physical restriction healthy. The healthy years of life over 50 varied however clearly from approximately nine years with Estonians to scarcely 24 years with Danes. The Germans lay with healthy 63.5 years in the rear centre zone. Czechs, Greeks and Poland remain longer healthy and fit on average. As expected humans in the 15 old European Union countries on average cut off better than inhabitants of the entry countries. However the results overlapped themselves: Polish men and women have a smaller life expectancy over 50 as the Germans, them can however over more healthy years about 50 be pleased than their western neighbours.

Gross domestic product as substantial factor

As substantial measured variables on the healthy years over 50 the researchers constituted the gross domestic product per head and proportionately to it the expenditures for health and care at the age. So the span of the happy years can be increased around one year, if the portion of the health and expenditures for care for older ones of the gross domestic product rises around a per cent.

With men longer unemployment reduced the health conditions. Altogether a higher education affected itself positively, as the researchers report. According to the so-called Lisbon strategy of the European commission are up to the year 2010 approximately 50 per cent of the 55 - until 64-Jährigen conditions of employment find. Based on the health status of humans in some European Union countries this goal seems at present not attainable, determines the researchers.

Education delays outbreak of Alzheimer's

Education delays outbreak of Alzheimer's

Is Alzheimer's an illness of the education-far layers? , Who works more with its hands than with its head, rather is a risk candidate for dementia in the age? Italian scientists investigated exactly this question.

Milan - humans with more education and mentally fastidious activities could be better from the memory loss, which precedes the Alzheimerkrankheit, protected. This states a study, which was published now in the magazine “Neurology”.

The researchers examined 242 patients with assumed Alzheimer's as well as 144 recover and 72 patients with memory disturbances, who go beyond the forgetfulness usual for the age and are called amnestische MCI (mildly cognitive impairment). 21 of these aMCI persons developed late Alzheimer's. The memory and the cognitive abilities of the test persons were tested. In addition they determined by means of Gehirnscans, into as far the brain by the Alzheimerkrankheit were damaged already.

Buffer by education

Result of the study was that with test persons with the same memory status those, which were formed or implemented a fastidious job exhibited damaged brain structures less in Alzheimer's. “Our theory is that education and mentally fastidious jobs bring, say a buffer or a cognitive reserve out against the effects of dementia” study authoress Valentina Garibotto. “Your brains are able to compensate damage and continue to work.” But give it to two possible explanations: “The brain could become stronger by education and fastidious occupation.” It would quite be in addition, conceivable that genetic advantages make higher training and the later activity in mentally responding occupations for some humans possible and cause a higher functional reserve at the same time.

With simple Gehirnjogging one will thus not be able to stop Alzheimer's. Training could delay the outbreak of the illness at best.

Rotato Express, an automated vegetable peeler

Rotato Express, an automated vegetable peeler

Potato Express is a delicate-looking kitchen apparatus that, accustomed a vegetable to embrace, strips it of its skin.

Rotato Express automatically peels potatoes, fruits and added vegetables in seconds. Puts an end to blubbery peels and waste. Simply skewer potato on basal fasten and lower the top spike. Then, advance the button to alpha case - automatically stops if complete. Derma peels off in one connected piece. Ultra safe architecture with no charge to authority or blow while peeling

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If baby teethes: no panic

If baby teethes: no panic

For many young parents teething the small ones is the worst time. The children cry and cry, some get excursions or even fever. Reason for uneasiness does not exist generally however. Also, if straight around this phase many legends climb

Hamburg - adults cannot imagine a life without teeth no more. But for small children, who came so far toothless completely marvelously by the life, the bulky Beißer is only once annoying. Violent teething problems, as they are afraid by many parents, are nevertheless a rare exception. “Teething is a completely natural physiological procedure, which only sometimes accompanies with easy Befindlichkeitsstörungen. Otherwise the process is completely normal and no reason for excitement”, says Hans Ulrich Neumann, Kinder- and Jugendarzt from Hamburg.

The teething problem one high-swing often unnecessarily. As soon as an infant without obvious reason is jerky or fever has, parents attributed to the increasing teeth and strove to fight the evil. “Generally the light complaints pass when teething however from alone and the child need only little more attention and welfare service”, say Neumann.

Only fever is really suspicious

When teething grow out of the tooth slowly from the jaw, whereby the above gums stretch themselves and tear. “In this phase the children are often jerky and feel in the place, in which the tooth breaks through, a printing pain”, say Neumann. Against these problems a Betäubungssalbe can help, with which one rubs the gums in careful. Also the well-known biting rings would feel many children in this time as relief. “By the counter-pressure on the gums the foreign body feeling is a little reduced, which results to Neumann from the increasing tooth”, explains. Also wood or a hard crust could serve as biting object.

Sometimes milk tooth growth is accompanied also by Wundsein. “It is because of the fact that provoking from the mouth range further-carries by the digesting system, so that also the skin at the Po explains attractive reacted”, Neumann. Normal Wundsalben can alleviate these symptoms. “A child in the teething phase gets however suddenly high fever, is not that certainly because of the fact that it gets, says straight its first teeth” Neumann. Perhaps one should let the true cause for the increased temperature clarify from there from a physician. (strip packing)

After Armtransplantation: Healing runs “amazingly well”

After Armtransplantation: Healing runs “amazingly well”

With a tragic industrial accident farmer lost Karl notices from the Allgäu both arms. In the July of this yearly it the arms of an organ donor were transplanted. Now it stepped for the first time before the press, in order to present its new arms: “I do not give it.”

Munich - with a transplant of two complete arms the clinical center has on the right of the Isar DOES Munich on 26 July new ground entered: Karl notice, a 54-jährigen farmer, who had lost both arms on height of the upper arms with an industrial accident before six years, in a 15-stündigen operation of two complete arms were transplanted. The hospital line communicated that was never before humans a so large quantity of strange fabric one would have transplanted. At the operation approximately a 40-köpfiges team was involved.

A special clinical challenge was that it concerns with the transplants fabric, which consists of different components such as skin and marrow. Therefore was and is particularly large the danger of a repulsion. With a therapy, which combines the standards of the medicamentous treatment after an organ as well as after a Knochenmarkstransplantation, the medical profession try now to work against. After so far however no defence reactions were proven, the dosage of the immunsuppressiven therapy could be already gradually reduced.

Eight hours of training daily

A further goal of the treatment is it to promote the structure of the nerves and to prevent a dismantling of the musculature. But the patient must complete daily an eight-hour program with patient gymnastic and electrical stimulation of the musculature. He is assistance of a special therapy “to learn” that he has again arms. Whether the regeneration of the nerves has success, can be said at the earliest in one and a half to two years, since nerves only about a millimeter grow on the day into the transplant. In addition, the physicians are optimistic here: The patient reports already of a first „Kribbeln “in the upper arm underneath the scars. The healing runs “amazingly well”, reported on Wednesday the treating physicians as well as notices before the press. If it runs further so well, it can in four to six weeks will home dismiss.

“I give it no longer ago”

There do not notice its both arms yet alone to carry can, is dependent it on a particularly designed stretcher rack. Thus it can move however already relatively freely, reported themselves the 54jährige. It can open doors already independently and serve also the light switch or a remote maintenance for the television set. With Umblättern of the newspaper and when eating he is however still dependent on assistance. He cannot introduce himself any longer, without being its new arms, said the man: “I give it no longer ago”. Karl notice after a television broadcast with the desire for a transplant to the clinical center had come closer, after it had not gotten along in the years after its accident with different artificial prostheses.

Shop window illness: hurting legs as the first symptom

Shop window illness: hurting legs as the first symptom

Many humans know the problem: after longer distances the feet and they hurt must set itself. Ber of the so-called shop window illness is that different. Here pain in the calves and legs from Arterienverengungen, which are bearable by frequent stopping only, results. Therefore pain in the legs should not be ignored, them is considered as the first symptom

Berlin - who must continue in the pedestrian precinct before each business, did not succumb inevitably to the purchase craze. A fifth over 65-Jährigen in Germany suffers approximately from the so-called
Shop window illness: The containers in the legs are narrowed that it comes to blood circulation disturbances and by the oxygen deficiency to pain, like professor Karl-Ludwig trained, the container medical profession in such a manner
and president of the German society for Angiologie (DGA), describes.

Smokes is main factor of risk

Affected are usually calves, Gesäß or thighs, depending on where the containers are narrowed. Frequently the pain diminishes, if the concerning remain standing, from there the name shop window illness.
Main factor of risk is trained according to smoking for many years. Untreatedly serious container catches threaten. Also Plaques in the Gefäßwänden can break, direction heart and lung walk and one
lethal Embolie release.

Therapieren leaves itself the shop window illness according to data of trained among other things with going training and blood circulation-promoting medicines. Beyond that container narrowings can by ultrasonic
to be uncovered and operationally with a balloon be extended. (strip packing)

More illnesses under work

More illnesses under work

The illnesses under the work increase in opinions of the Medizinerin Monika Rieger ever more. But will become treated not for occupational diseases also as these. Employers and employees can proceed preventively against it.

T5ubingen - ways of the increase of workconditioned illnesses the industrial union metal in Baden-Wuerttemberg demanded better conditions of work for persons employed. “Work does not have to make ill, but we find frequently unfavorable conditions of work those make ill”, said the IG-Metall district leader Jörg Hofmann at a trade conference of the trade union in flax field EN genuine things. Hofmann criticized that many employers too little health promotion and - prevention operate.

In opinion of the of Tübingen Medizinerin Monika Rieger in the past years workcaused illnesses in Germany increased clearly. With questionings it has the impression gotten that increases humans psychological or physical disturbances by certain stress factors on the job have, said the kommissarische chief of the institute for work and social medicine at the university University of T5ubingen.

Back pain and mouse arms are not everything

“Many psychological illnesses have their origin in the work”, said Rieger. These causes let themselves however only very heavy proofs. Besides muskulös skeletttale illnesses would arise such as back pain or mouse arms. Not all of these diseases are taken up also into the list of the occupational illnesses. Because the accident insurances are responsible for occupational illnesses, must be proven this perfectly as diseases caused by the work.

The Romans would have already recognized already connections between illnesses and certain work, explained Rieger. Nowadays the field of the work illnesses became many more complex however, since also the working sphere became more varied. Often employer would prevent in the meantime preventively illnesses. “Those have also no desire that their employees are ill. Finally they are the economic goods of the enterprise”, said the Medizinerin.

Employers and employees can prevent

Hofmann criticized that only 29 per cent of the enterprises in Baden-Wuerttemberg convert since 1996 the legally prescribed endangerment evaluation. With this “helpful instrument” operational measures let themselves derive. “In the consequence can be arranged efficient health promotion, further training, work organization and personnel employment”, said Hofmann.

In the core go it around it, how work must be changed, in order to be able to exercise it over years to become permanently ill without wearing and. In this connection give it above all to needs for action by the increase of stress-conditioned illnesses. “Hecticness, operating pressure, achievement compression and Mobbing make and many high-level personnel ill see idle too”, criticized Hofmann.

In addition, according to Rieger employees themselves can prevent preventively an illness, in which they optimize for instance the ergonomics on the job. “Desk, mouse and light should be ideally adjusted”, say those to expert. In the long run work could have also positive effects: “Also stop gives you. It is not thus always valid the principle: Work makes ill”, said Rieger. (strip packing)

Wieczorek Zeul: Mother number of deaths is too high

Wieczorek Zeul: Mother number of deaths is too high

In a Milleniumserklärung the governments of the United Nations had set themselves it in the year 2000 to the goal of reducing the mother number of deaths in relation to the conditions of 1990 world-wide by two thirds. By the fulfillment of this goal one is however still far, as the current report of population of world reveals

Berlin - Minister of Development Heidemarie Wieczorek Zeul (SPD) deplores those continuously high number of deaths of becoming mothers in many parts of the world. That more than one half million women at complications die annually with pregnancy or birth, a “scandal” is, said the minister on Wednesday with the conception of the UNFPA Weltbevölkerungsberichts of the United Nations in Berlin. Were allotted to 99 per cent of these deaths to the developing countries. The risk of a woman not to survive the birth is higher regardless of international agreements like the Millenniumsziele also today still in Africa 300 times than in Europe.

Mother number of deaths sank around less than a per cent

According to the report the mother number of deaths in the period of 1990 to 2005 sank around less than a per cent annually. However 5.5 per cent per year would be necessary, in order to reach the Millenniumsziel to lower this number until 2015 around 75 per cent.

The representative of the UN-Bevölkerungsfonds UNFPA, Bettina Maas, said, the number of the women, who annually carried injuries or other damages off” with the birth “, lies with 10 to 15 million even still more highly. The lowering of the mother number of deaths and the avoidance of injuries depended crucially on a better health supply. In addition counted an emergency birth assistance just like the entrance to family planning services. The presence of a trained birth aide reduces the risk of complications clearly, said Maas.

200 million women would prevent, if they could

The manager of the German foundation world population, Renate Bähr, referred besides to collections, according to which with appropriate offers world-wide 200 million women would prevent. She criticized that family planning and sexual clearing-up would not find in many places yet the necessary attention.

The UNPFA co-operates according to own data with government and non-governmental organizations in 154 countries and made last means available at a value of more than 245 million US Dollar in the year.

More illnesses under work

More illnesses under work

The illnesses under the work increase in opinions of the Medizinerin Monika Rieger ever more. But will become treated not for occupational diseases also as these. Employers and employees can proceed preventively against it.

T5ubingen - ways of the increase of workconditioned illnesses the industrial union metal in Baden-Wuerttemberg demanded better conditions of work for persons employed. “Work does not have to make ill, but we find frequently unfavorable conditions of work those make ill”, said the IG-Metall district leader Jörg Hofmann at a trade conference of the trade union in flax field EN genuine things. Hofmann criticized that many employers too little health promotion and - prevention operate.

In opinion of the of Tübingen Medizinerin Monika Rieger in the past years workcaused illnesses in Germany increased clearly. With questionings it has the impression gotten that increases humans psychological or physical disturbances by certain stress factors on the job have, said the kommissarische chief of the institute for work and social medicine at the university University of T5ubingen.

Back pain and mouse arms are not everything

“Many psychological illnesses have their origin in the work”, said Rieger. These causes let themselves however only very heavy proofs. Besides muskulös skeletttale illnesses would arise such as back pain or mouse arms. Not all of these diseases are taken up also into the list of the occupational illnesses. Because the accident insurances are responsible for occupational illnesses, must be proven this perfectly as diseases caused by the work.

The Romans would have already recognized already connections between illnesses and certain work, explained Rieger. Nowadays the field of the work illnesses became many more complex however, since also the working sphere became more varied. Often employer would prevent in the meantime preventively illnesses. “Those have also no desire that their employees are ill. Finally they are the economic goods of the enterprise”, said the Medizinerin.

Employers and employees can prevent

Hofmann criticized that only 29 per cent of the enterprises in Baden-Wuerttemberg convert since 1996 the legally prescribed endangerment evaluation. With this “helpful instrument” operational measures let themselves derive. “In the consequence can be arranged efficient health promotion, further training, work organization and personnel employment”, said Hofmann.

In the core go it around it, how work must be changed, in order to be able to exercise it over years to become permanently ill without wearing and. In this connection give it above all to needs for action by the increase of stress-conditioned illnesses. “Hecticness, operating pressure, achievement compression and Mobbing make and many high-level personnel ill see idle too”, criticized Hofmann.

In addition, according to Rieger employees themselves can prevent preventively an illness, in which they optimize for instance the ergonomics on the job. “Desk, mouse and light should be ideally adjusted”, say those to expert. In the long run work could have also positive effects: “Also stop gives you. It is not thus always valid the principle: Work makes ill”, said Rieger. (strip packing)

Lack of sleep by Internet and television

Lack of sleep by Internet and television

About lack of sleep primarily young people complain. To this result an inquiry comes on behalf the technicians health insurance company. The younger the asked persons were, the more tiredly were them, because they rather drove themselves out the time with other things. In the coming days further results of the study are presented with imedo

Hamburg - lack of sleep is a problem of young people. That resulted in the Forsa inquiry on behalf the technicians health insurance company (TK). More than half under 35-Jährigen does not get according to own estimates enough sleep, between 36 and 55 years suffers each third under lack of sleep. Schlaffresser are televisions, Internet and books. Nearly two thirds indicated that they would do without the television, in order to win more time for sleeping, four of ten asked on the Internet and computer games. The resolutions are however not converted.

In the week each fifth goes under 35 years only to midnight to bed, between 36 and 55 is it each seventh, with which is over 55-Jährigen it only each respected asked one.

More is less

While the one become early awake and are fast fit, the night owls come only heavily from the feathers/springs. “In which rhythm the internal clock ticks, is in our genes”, says psychologist Inga Margraf. Chronobiologen assume night owls and early larks are represented often directly in the population. Only few can align their routine of the day after the internal clock. Each second under 35 years and more than each third between 36 and 55 years indicated to suffer from lack of sleep.

This internal clock is an answer of the evolution to the change of day and night. It is pre-programmed genetic and steers, when we are awake and when we sleep. Many bodily functions depend on it: Blood pressure, intestine movement and Körpertemperatur. The usual routines of the day come to meet the early risers, night owls suffer under it and torment themselves often laboriously from the bed.

“The internal clock can not be adjusted”, says Inga Margraf, but one can do it also few cheats outwits. In the morning should be taken into account with more time, in order to become correctly awake. A short walk makes and the daylight awake restrains the production of the sleep hormone melatonin. Additionally cold showers and morning gymnastic help.

Night people should get accustomed also to go not too late to bed. Who gets along under the week with little sleep, early in the morning torments themselves from the bed and but on weekend always long out-slept, provides for one minijet-lay in the body. In addition they should get accustomed to a firm rhythm and these also on weekend and in the vacation maintained.

Much sleep is not inevitably better. Only one third of humans, who sleep less than six hours, indicated, to have sleep problems. From the persons, who sleep longer than eight hours, each second complained about sleep problems.

Chronic headache changes the brain

Chronic headache changes the brain

The early treatment of regular headache is important. Not only that they release concerning of their suffering, they lead during a long period to changes in the brain. Eight million humans are in this country concerned.

Hamburg - chronic headache, which persists over years, usually leads to provable changes in the brain. Contrary to the migraine, which diminishes at the age, from there many patients chronic headache become never more loose, said medicine professor Hans-Christoph servant of the University of Duisburg-Essen. In order to avoid the emergence of chronic headache, humans, who suffer occasionally from headache, must be treated promptly.

Health insurance companies recognize risk patients

Servant is also speaker of the German headache consortium - a project to the investigation of chronic headache, in which eight university hospitals are involved in Germany. Approximately eight million humans suffer servants according to from chronic headache and migraine.

The health insurance companies can recognize promptly so-called risk patients on the basis of false days by the job and prescriptions for medicines, said servants. Who takes for example many pain killers, is rather endangered to get chronic headache. Also a centrifuge trauma after an accident can lead to it. This showed a study at 18.000 humans. An integrated supply - for instance physicians and psychologists work more closely together - can the number of the false days on the job halve, reported servants. (DPA)

Meningokokken: Pupil dies at brain skin inflammation

Meningokokken: Pupil dies at brain skin inflammation

Yesterday afternoon died in Berlin a 18-jährige pupil at a brain skin inflammation. It was in the context of an education journey with its class in Berlin and few days ago the first disease symptoms had only exhibited.

Berlin - the pupil from Switzerland had be with her class because of an education journey in Berlin. When the girl exhibited the first disease symptoms, the teacher with it furht into the hospital. There the female patient was immediately intensive-medically treated, yet the life of the young woman could not be saved.

Above all children and young people affected

Brain skin inflammations can be caused by viruses and bacteria. A rare, but particularly heavy form is the Meningokokken Meningitis transferred by droplets. By this above all children concerned under five years, in addition, young people are. The number of deaths rate with an Meningokokken illness amounts to five to ten per cent.

Germany far last year 439 cases of an Meningokokken infection were announced. In this year there was according to data of the Robert Koch Institute so far 381 cases. Most cases are announced from South Germany. The death of Swiss pupil is the first Meningokokken death in Berlin in this year.

Pregnancy: Meal for two can harm the baby

Pregnancy: Meal for two can harm the baby

“You are more pregnant, you must for two eat now! ”: Surely each pregnant woman hears this well meant advice once. But this advice is not wrong only, it can for the unborn be even dangerous.

Frankfurt/Main - against the wide-spread opinion pregnant women are not to eat by any means for two. A constant food abundance can even harm the baby, because thus its hormone sensors in the brain are wrongly calibrated. The director/conductor of the department explains metabolic disturbances at the Dr. of Hauner child hospital Munich, Berthold Koletzko, in the pharmacy magazine “baby and family”: The unborn ones paid then high quantities of insulin and would accept the abundance as normal.

Diet before the pregnancy, meanwhile normally nourish

“This small Nimmersatts develops with high probability later predominance”, makes Koletzko clear. Thus the children would already carry the risk for subsequent illnesses such as hypertension, increase of the blood fats, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in itself. Women, who anyway already fought with predominance, should decrease if possible before a planned pregnancy. While the baby grows up, diets are taboo.

Chocolate is healthy

Chocolate is healthy

From because of Na is unhealthy. Italian researchers found out that chocolate the cardiovascular system comes to property. However the sweet may be enjoyed only in small quantities, so that it is also actually favorable for the health.

Berlin - to two bits chocolate on the day one may good conscience naschen. 6.7 gram of the sweet are optimal, in order to protect the cardiovascular system - however then only if it concerns not around milk chocolate, but a dark variant, as Italian researchers found out.

Derived the scientists this number from a statistic investigation of well 2000 healthy volunteers, with those them the chocolate consumption with the quantity of the inflammation markers

in the blood compared. High values of these protein molecules are considered as factor of risk for diseases such as Arteriosklerose, cardiac infarct or apoplexy. A moderate consumption of chocolate accompanies against it with clearly lower inflammation values, reports Romina di Giuseppe of the catholic university in Campobasso and its team in the technical periodical “journal OF Nutrition”.

A half bar of dark chocolate is ideal

Basis of the evaluation was the data base of the Moli sani project, a collection of medical and general information about altogether 25,000 volunteer from the Italian region Molise, which was to help to identify genetic and other factors of risk for cardiovascular diseases and cancer. From this data collection the researchers for their current study selected 824 participants, those regularly dark chocolate consumed, as well as 1317 comparison pro gangs, which consumed no chocolate only very rarely or. Additionally by all participants blood tests were inferred and tested on the so-called C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein molecule, which the body forms as reaction to chronic or acute inflammations.

Above all the test persons with a consumption of for instance a half board of dark chocolate per week - according to 6.7 gram per day - exhibited remarkably low CRP values, as the evaluation showed.
More or less chocolate let the positive effect disappear however. The connection remained existing also if the researchers considered the influence of other factors like other nourishing habits or physical movement.

As responsible for the health-promoting effects of dark chocolate are considered the Antioxidantien, particularly Flavonoide contained in the cocoa and other Polyphenole. They can make the aggressive so-called free radicals among other things developing with inflammation reactions innocuous and protect thus the bio molecules of the body - and therefore also the organs - against damage by these reactive connections. (strip packing)

Danger by medicines run off

Danger by medicines run off

Hausapotheken are often wild Sammelsurien. A remainder cough mixture from the last winter, a few pain tablets of the blind intestinal operation and each quantity unopened vitamin preparations drängeln itself there closely to close - and all are according to packing print for months no longer durable. But that can become very dangerous.

Berlin - “one may take medicines, whose expiration date was already exceeded, in no more case”, warns Ursula Sellerberg of the Federal union of German pharmacist federations (ABDA). Only within the durability phase guarantee the manufacturer for the effectiveness and compatibility of the drugs. “After it dismantling materials can form in the medicines. These lead to the fact that the medicine works, does not explain no longer correctly or no more” the Pharmazeutin. Sometimes the changed ingredients are even injurious to health.

One should destroy medicines run off immediately from there. “Most pharmacies take old drugs back behaviourless and dispose of them appropiately.” Alternatively one can do it also into that
Domestic refuse give. “One should make certain however that the medicines are well hidden, so that other adult and also children do not come on the idea her from the garbage pail to fish and take”, say Sellerberg. Best one knocks the packings separately into something newsprint. Into the discharge or into the toilet one may however never tilt medicines. “The ingredients can arrive over drains into the groundwater and pollute it”, say Sellerberg.

Storage in the bedroom ideally

If one did not need still unopened medicines at home to lie, those one, one must dispose of also these. Pharmacists may not take it back or conversions. “Pharmacists must guarantee
_ can, that the medicine, which they sell, perfect store. If the means had left the pharmacy, they cannot give this warranty any longer”, explain Sellerberg.

So that drugs spoil not prematurely, one should keep them in principle for drying, protected from light and at a constant temperature between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius. “The bathroom or the kitchen own itself not as stores for medicines, there it there often very warmly and also damp will can”, says Sellerberg. Ideal storage areas are however the bedroom or the corridor. (strip packing)

Depressions increase the risk for Frühgeburten

Depressions increase the risk for Frühgeburten

Pregnant ones, which suffer from depression, are exposed to a higher risk of Frühgeburten. A study with scarcely 800 women pointed the danger out of easy and heavy depressions during the pregnancy.

Oakland - depressions during the pregnancy increase a study in the magazine “humanly Reproduction” according to the risk of Frühgeburten. The authors assume a neuroendocrine damage of the Plazenta as causes. The study decreases/goes back to an inquiry among 791 members of the health insurance company emperor permanent one. The women had been interviewt during the tenth pregnancy week. Director of studies De-Kun left of the research department of emperor permanent one with the exit of the pregnancy set their answers in relationship.

Heavy depressions double the risk

Result: Pregnant ones with an easy depression were more frequent to 60 per cent before the 37. Week relieved. With women with heavier depressions the risk was even more than doubled. Furthermore the researcher found out that a low level of education, an earlier Fertilitätsprobleme as well as adiposity and stress events on the early birth risk strengthen the negative effects of the depression.

Stress could be in opinion of left the common denominator of these factors. For the epidemiologist it is quite conceivable that the neuroendocrine consequences of stress events damage the Plazenta.

Internet Sex makes depressive

Internet Sex makes depressive

Who wants to realize its sexual needs over Internet sites, can avail itself of a large offer. In the virtual world the fantasy no borders are set and ever more humans become the Internet case of craze. Which so far does not admit was - the users of the relevant Internet sites are exposed to a high depression risk. Particularly under students the numbers are alarming

Sydney - humans, who use Sexseiten in the Internet very intensively, risk their psychological health. To this result comes a current investigation, which researchers of the Swinburne University OF Technology accomplished in Australia. Therefore visitors from Erotik sides in the Web exhibit “alarming high rates” at depressions, anxieties and stress. The search for sexual satisfaction in the Internet becomes for many within shortest time proper the craze. This leads to the fact that concerning spend finally more than twelve hours per week on Pornoseiten, platforms for Sex contacts, in Erotik chat or with Webcam offers. According to study the majority of the concerning is male and had a higher education degree.

Above all educated humans affected

“In Germany clearly on-line Sexsucht is most strongly pronounced”, determines the Gabriele Farke, Onlinesucht Beraterin and Initiatorin of the self-help portal Onlinesucht.de by the three kinds of the Internet craze. This variant is in the public a taboo topic, however increasingly also as problem seriously is still taken. “From the professional experience I can only confirm that itself the predominant majority of the addicted ones concerned within this range from young 24 - to 29-jährigen men recruited”, Farke supplements. The particularly high portion of students is remarkable. “The high education degree pulls itself by all on-line craze developments”, marks Farke. The closer background for this is not easy to check up. “Particularly educated humans have apparent often the impression that they can tear away themselves at any time from their craze. Usually it takes however years, to it their problem admits themselves”, means Farke.

In the context of the Australian study the indicated twelve hours, which spend concerning with the use of Sex offers in the Web, are however clearly too far down set according to on-line craze expert. “We would be glad, if on-line Sexsüchtige got along with only twelve hours per week. In practice this value is clearly higher”, describes Farke. Some would do even completely without their conventional life and around the clock to their “hobby” would dedicate themselves. “That at longer term the psychological consequences of their craze in the form of depressions or the like to feel get, I can however only confirm concerning. In many cases humans become perfectly relationship unable by their on-line Sexsucht”, say Farke.

27 per cent of the users suffer from depression

“The high rate at psychological health problems within the examined group of selections is extremely disturbing”, explains Marcus Squirell, doctorate student and director/conductor of the study to the Swinburne University opposite the Australian newspaper “Sydney Morning Herald”. Thus the researchers determined a portion of 27 per cent, with which a moderate to heavy depression could be diagnosed with the intensive users of on-line Sex offers. Approximately 30 per cent suffered besides from pronounced fear conditions and further 35 per cent exhibited typical stress symptoms. “The risk for a psychological illness rises thereby proportionally to the weekly service life of Sex offers”, stresses Squirell.

More women than men die at cardiac infarcts

More women than men die at cardiac infarcts

Death by cardiac infarct - many think there of stressed men in elevated positions at the middle age. But far been missing: With under 60-Jährigen the cardiac infarct is with women of frequent cause of death as with men of the same age.

Berlin - with women under 60 an infarct leads more frequently to death than with male heart patients of the same age. Women suffer on average only ten years later a cardiac infarct than men. “You die however more frequently to it”, say Vera Regitz Zagrosek, chief of the center for sex research at the university clinic Charité in Berlin. That is particularly valid for the few young heart female patients. The reasons for the higher number of deaths are various: “The heart wreath/ring containers look particularly with the younger women often differently than with men”, explain the Kardiologin. These differences would have also consequences for the treatment and therapy success: To bypass operations for example come it with women more frequently to complications. Crucial above all the first days are in the hospital.

Too carelessly?

Beyond that women with complaints go frequently only relatively late to the physician. They did not believe that they can really get a cardiac infarct. “Women underestimate their risk often substantially”, warn those expert. Die the data according to in Germany more women at the consequences of a container or a heart illness than at cancer. The number of the cardiac infarcts with women did not increase according to Regitz Zagrosek in the past decades however necessarily: “The emancipation caused rather that the health problems of the women are more strongly noticed.” (DPA)

Dismantling of nerve coverings makes slower at the age

Dismantling of nerve coverings makes slower at the age

Older humans move more slowly than younger. Many have pain due to wear. In addition, humans without recognizable age illnesses move more slowly. American researchers found the true reason out for it

Smelling ester - the isolation of the nerves in the brain decreases, slows down also the movement in the course of the old becoming. This dismantling of the nerve coverings cannot be stopped at the middle age of the body no more and leads to losses in the reaction rate, usually before Arthritis contributes its part to as George Bartzokis reports of the university of California in Los Angeles. It and its colleagues present their results in the specialist journal “Neurobiology OF Aging”.

Nerves in the brain are surrounded by a so-called myelin sheath, which makes a fast attraction forwarding possible. To approximately to 40. Year of life creates it the body to repair damages of this greasy substance. With increasing age however the regeneration ability diminishes, so that the myelin sheath becomes ever thinner. Accordingly are reduced also the achievements, which depend on the nerves concerned. This dismantling impairs a thinking, the perception and the movement, assumes the researchers.

The key is the slower attraction forwarding

In order to test this connection between the speed of operation of the nervous system and the condition of the nerve coverings, the scientists examined 72 healthy men between 23 and 80 years. They seized the speed, with the one test person with the index finger to tap can and compared the result with photographs of the myelin sheaths in the brain. It was shown that the myelin sheath became thinner with most test subjects starting from an age of 39 years. Starting from this age also the reaction rate of the test persons diminished.

That is the reason, why older humans more slowly Bartzokis says itself moved, even if they have still no hurting joints or Arthritis. Even if in this study only those
Rate of motion examined is, could the results also to other brain functions be transferred, with which fast attraction forwarding is necessary, like for example the memory. (strip packing)

Excursion in the deep sleep: Sleep-change with children

Excursion in the deep sleep: Sleep-change with children

At least each tenth child under 15 years sleep-changes. That is the result of a study of the technicians health insurance company. imedo explains, how small sleep transducers come reliably by the night.

Hamburg - with expressionless face, rigid view and angular movements they run at night purposefully apparently by the dwelling. But their “schlafwandlerische security” deceives: The small night ramblers do not move on their excursion in the deep sleep very sensitivly, and furniture or stairs becomes fast dangerous Stolperfallen. Inga Margraf, psychologist, guesses parents of small sleep transducers, sharp edged furniture abzupolstern to secure stairs and lock windows and doors. A Glöckchen at the children's room door can signal parents that its Sprössling on the way is.

Sleep-change gives no reason to the concern

Reason to the concern is the sleep changing non up to puberty places itself usually the normal sleep. “Parents should not wake their sleep-changing child up, but gently in the bed”, recommend expert Inga Margraf lead back. “Sleep transducers are in the deep sleep on the way. If they are waked suddenly, they frighten themselves only unnecessarily.” This is particularly dangerous, if they are waked up in a danger situation - for instance at the open window - and to then frighten itself.

Sleep-change arises in a deep sleep phase in the first half the night. The body partly awakes from the sleep into a condition halfwax in. “Sleep transducers know in this condition relatively monotonous movements would drive out, without this consciously to notice”, explain Inga Margraf.
A “they do not know reminding the maximally halfhour night trip on the next morning.” Usually they move straightforward towards a source of light. Contrary to the classical representation of the sleep transducer on the roof roofridge, the moon plays today however no more outstanding role - stronger
Light it than point of attraction replaced.

Why humans sleep-change, is today disputed until, a uniform explanation sample seems it not to give. A role probably plays the development process of the childlike brain and central nervous system, because particularly frequently children are concerned between five and twelve years. Investigations point besides to the fact that the assessment is left for sleep changing. In addition can do stress and fear, fever, a full blister or external influences such as noise the night
Umherwandern affect.

Depression: Recognize in time and treat

Depression: Recognize in time and treat

Where does depressive ill-will stop and where does a treatment-poor depression begin? The transition runs usually flowing and concerning and member knows often nothing about the illness. Approximately four million Germans suffer from a depression

Berlin - everyone has times bad mood or is during a longer period detuned. It becomes critical only, if the “Depri phases” do not stop any longer. “The fixing of the boundaries between a depressive ill-will and a depression in need of treatment is very important”, says the chairman of the foundation German depression assistance. In addition, he sees one that is not necessarily simple. If serious depressions were not recognized, could the consequences gentleman-end its. Many concerning wished themselves to fall asleep and wake up not rather and played with the thought to take itself the life.

Sign for a serious depression

A treatment-poor depression can be present if the ill-will continues over two weeks at the piece and if far disease characters are present. That can be powerlessness, sleep disturbances, exaggerated debt feelings or also Grübelzwang. In addition, physical complaints or appetite disturbances can be warning references.

Depressions can according to instructions Hegerls nowadays be well treated, must for it in addition, in time be recognized. Preventing, particularly at the cold season Ulrich Hegerl sport recommends to float - best at fresh air. Besides social contacts should be maintained and one should to pleasant things pay attention itself and not to are enough to sleep.

Like a depressive tendency does not come is free of doubts clarified. The chemical messengers serotonin and Noradrenalin could be responsible for it, equally a hereditary component is conceivable. Usually also a negative life experience is present.

Children in Danger

Children in Danger

Between Octobers and March banal accidents of accouchement bifold themselves

In the aphotic months the crisis in the cartage rises for children, who go to bottom to the school. According to blow statistics from October to March in the morning about alert as abounding pupils are afflicted as in the actual year, address „the ancestors doctor accommodating annual ". Parents should accomplish assertive that their baby ones are to be apparent good. Bright clothes are with alpha ablaze acutely in above times acutely than darken. Important are aswell reflectors at satchels, anorak and cap.

Cardinal Lehmann again at home

Cardinal Lehmann again at home

That Mainz bishop Karl Lehmann is again at home. After it had been operated at the beginning of November at the intestine, already is it the work. But the concern around it remains, because it has yearly already passed since July again and again health problems.

Mainz - after an intestinal operation at the beginning of the past week that left Mainz bishop Karl Lehmann on Friday the hospital. The cardinal returned to the bishop house and its work again took up, communicated the diocese. Against earlier considerations it will make no cure. When the 72-Jährige will notice again public appearances, is not certain.

Cardinal Lehmann fights already longer with health problems

Lehmann had been brought on 3 November with pain into one Mainz hospital and operated immediately at the intestine. Already in July it had been brought after a weakness accumulation during a service in Mainz the cathedral in the hospital. In February Lehmann for health reasons the presidency of the German conference of bishop had given up after 20 years term of office, after he in December 2007
due to heartbeat disturbances stationarily had had to be treated

Patients are right to participation with choice of the Reha hospital

Patients are right to participation with choice of the Reha hospital

The problem is well-known: who requests a cure with a legal health insurance company, this gets often only once rejected. The reasons for the refusal are however simply too expensive variously, in most cases a cure the cashes. In a court decision it was now decided that the patient has quite a say with the selection of his Reha hospital.

Darmstadt - legally has requirement on a clinical rehablitation patient-insured, if their state of health requires this. With the selection of the hospital the cash must consider the special needs and desires of the insured one, how the Hessian national social court decided in Darmstadt.

The plaintiff obstructed to 80 per cent had requested a cure in a specialized clinic for naturopathy and holistic medicine in the year 2000. The cash rejected the request, although the insured one had been already treated some years before in the same hospital with good success. Thereupon the insured one decided to a Reha treatment at the own expense and complained at the same time against the negative reply.

Cash must pay cure also retroactively

While the social court rejected the complaint, the national social court gave right to the plaintiff. Like that the stationary treatment was also promising in the case of the insured one necessarily and after statement of the treating physicians. The cash must the cure in addition also retroactively pay, since the plaintiff waited for first the decision of the insurance and only afterwards for treatment at the own expense decided. Up to a final judicial decision the insured one did not have to postpone the cure treatment, how the national social court judged.

Herztransplantation: Baby Angelina can soon home

Angelina is the youngest female patient, who was submitted so far at the university University of Freiburg of a Herztransplantation. Without the important operation the baby would have probably only had to live few weeks. The interference ran well, Angelina can soon home.

FreelyMother Irina holds its daughter Angelina in the arms in the paediatric clinic of the university clinic Freiburg.

Freiburg - successful was made at the university clinic Freiburg a Herztransplantation at a five months old baby. The small Angelina is probably four weeks after the operation, drinks its Fläschchen, eats again completely normally mash and can in three weeks will dismiss, said the treating physicians on Wednesday in Freiburg. The girl is according to hospital data the so far youngest child in Baden-Wuerttemberg, to which a new heart was implanted. Without the operation it would in all probability soon have died.

Operation was necessary, because with the girl, after whom it had been before already operated at the heart wall, additionally still another life-threatening heart myasthenia one determined. Already in the sixth pregnancy month the heart error had been discovered and operated then three weeks after the birth. “That is actually today no more large interference”, said the treating child heart surgeon Christian Schlensak. But when still the myasthenia was then added, a Herztransplantation was the only possibility for the child to survive.

Medicines up to the end of life

The donation readiness of parents of a deceased of child saved the life to Angelina. The girl is appropriate for four weeks after the operation now relaxed in the arms of the obviously facilitated mother. Diverted the small one moves its little hands and looks with large blue eyes curiously around itself, when photographers approach it. Still it must carry a mouth protection, there with it - caused by an artificially lowered immune defense - which is increased infection danger, stresses the specialized lady doctor for innate
Heart error, Brigitte quiet. That is completely normal, in order to prevent a repulsion of the donor organ. Angelina will have to take time life medicines against it.

When in the fourth life month the certainty it became that Angelina would survive donor heart only with, began a “very heavy” waiting period for parents from a small municipality in the Ortenaukreis,
as the mother remembers. “It is the life for the child or nevertheless death” - this their constant thoughts were, report them under tears. After the operation she had herself to accustom to the conception that in her daughter “a strange organ strikes”. But meanwhile do not remember it any longer.

Without organ Angelina would have died

About two to three cases of this kind there is to be according to estimations of the physicians of the Freiburger child surgery Germany far in the year. Whether can be helped to the babies, depends on a suitable donor organ, which is obtained by Eurotransplant in the Netherlands. In Baden-Wuerttemberg the child heart surgery at the Freiburger university clinical center is valid as only mechanism, which can master such operations. So far the medical profession dared themselves there however only to adults or young people near.

With the five-month baby in-hour operation is because of the tiny dimensions “hühnereigroßen organ” a special challenge been, reports the medical profession. But “without this organ Angelina would have died in the next weeks”, describes to quiet the situation. Now it looks for the girl everything else as hopeless. According to estimate of its physicians Angelina will be able to lead a normal life. (strip packing)