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Rare diseases

This blog post answers the questions of what rare diseases are in general, in which medical areas they’re involved, how many people are affected and the number of medications, which are available now. Definition and

Epilepsy – chaos inside the head

Although the European epilepsy day has been over for a few days, it’s still important to understand this neurological disease. Therefore, this blog post discusses the defintion of epilepsy, the development, consequences and causes of

World Cancer Day: What is cancer actually?

On February 4th was World Cancer Day. That’s why the current blog post answers the question of what cancer actually is and how it develops. History Cancer was already described by the ancient Egyptians in

Cervical cancer – use the cancer screening

Because the month January is „Cervical cancer awareness month“, this blog post is about this type of cancer. Every woman should think about it because it’s a cancer with good chances of healing when it’s

Biomarkers – important for personalized medicine

Biomarkers are an important part of personalized medicine. That’s why the firtst blog post this year concerns with the enormous importance of these markers. What is a biomarker? According to the National Institutes of Health,

Pharmacogenetics

The last articel this year is about pharmacogenetics and answers, among other things, the question of why some medications don’t have an effect on certain people.     Pharmacogenetics – Defintion Pharmacogenetics is a relatively

Mucoviscidosis – cystic fibrosis

The name mucoviscidosis, also called cystic fibrosis, comes from the Latin and means as much as sticky mucus. It‘s an autosomal recessive trait in which a mutation in the CFTR gene in gladular cells causes

CRISPR/Cas in HIV therapy

The blog post this week is about CRISPR/Cas and because of the World-AIDS-Day last Saturday it is also about first successes in HIV treatment with this genome editing tool and about a message that has