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.
Diseases
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 various forms of epileptic seizures and the first advances in personalized treatment.
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 shocked many people last month.
World-AIDS-Day
Because of the World-AIDS-Day today, there is a new post about HIV and AIDS in general, the major breakthrough in HIV therapy and a first success in personalized medicine.
Diabetes – an underestimate danger
Because of the World Diabetes Day on 14.11 the first blog post will be about diabetes in general, the consequences of the disease and the first progress towards precision medicine.