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A Chinese tourist had complained of a sore throat. In total, there were already six suspected coronavirus cases in Austria, all of which were not confirmed. In Vienna there is also …
Up-to-date information on the novel virus is available on the websites of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Agency for Health and Food Security. The current suspected cases of coronavirus …
Up-to-date information on the novel virus is available on the websites of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Agency for Health and Food Security.
The current suspected cases of coronavirus in Austria have been published on the website of the Ministry of Social Affairs since Tuesday, the case to be clarified in Carinthia can be found on the home page. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) announced this in the briefing on Monday at the Ministry of the Interior, the actual status is updated daily at 10:00 a.m.
“We use it to communicate transparently and clearly. In ongoing coordination with the state social officers. It is important to act prudently and not to give rumors. There is currently no reason to panic. Austria is well positioned,” Anschober said in a press release.
Information Hotline
The Agency for Health and Food Security (AGES) already has a free info line on Monday on the phone number 0800-555 621 set up. At the time from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Monday to Friday) AGES experts provide up-to-date information on transmission, symptoms and the prevention of the new virus.
Detailed information on “2019-nCoV”, recommendations for action and protective measures as well as information for specialist staff can also be found on the specially created website of AGES – this is also updated regularly.
So far, infections have only rarely led to death. If the number of fatalities is related to the number of infections, the mortality rate (death rate) is less than three percent. Previous reports have been particularly affected by risk groups such as the elderly.
According to experts, one week is sufficient to recover from mild coronavirus symptoms. Mild courses of the infection do not appear as pneumonia, but only as a mild fever.
Main picture • Buergenstock Anyone who thinks that the winter days are unbearably cold has never tried cryotherapy. The trip to the cold chamber at 110 degrees minus is said to …
Anyone who thinks that the winter days are unbearably cold has never tried cryotherapy. The trip to the cold chamber at 110 degrees minus is said to work against many things. A self-experiment high above Lake Lucerne.
A place for wellness and self-discovery. So it reads as a greeting in the Waldhotel, that sounded like relaxation and deceleration, after gentle hands that massage and balm my troubled back, like a whirlpool and exotic scents. But it should be very different. My short trip to the Bürgenstock should not be a well-washed wellness excursion, during which you will feel more tired than before, but something you can feel and what will work.
The Waldhotel is the latest achievement in this luxury resort high above Lake Lucerne in the heart of Switzerland and far from a life characterized by rents and installment loans. Those who go on vacation here collect rents and grant loans. Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren and Sean Connery have been regulars. And now I am there and try cryotherapy in the Waldhotel, a glazed building with a Matteo-Thun design with a view of mountains, forests and cow pastures. Cryotherapy stands for the targeted use of cold stimuli for therapeutic purposes, and this has existed since ancient times. But they didn’t have that at the time: a cold chamber with a maximum of 110 degrees minus. In addition, I sneak noticeably in a bathrobe and slippers through the long corridors in the spa area past many doors like someone who is on the way to the sauna. But the direction is opposite. I don’t sweat, I freeze.
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Shorts and face mask
The cold chamber is said to have quite impressive effects. It should stimulate metabolic processes, help against rheumatic diseases, also against sore muscles, which appeals to competitive athletes. In addition, it is said to have a positive effect on psychological problems such as panic attacks or sleep disorders, which I as a layperson cannot imagine. At the cold room I am greeted by a glass door with an equally inconspicuous anteroom, where I, with my slippers and bathrobe removed, are instructed by an employee. Strictly speaking, there are three cold chambers: ten degrees minus to warm up, 60 degrees as an interlude, and finally the crowning phase with three minutes at 110 degrees minus. The wardrobe is limited to shorts and a face mask. No hood, no gloves, nothing.
I try to reassure myself that there is enough professional support here and that many have already survived the procedure. A person for whom 20 degrees minus in winter without long underpants was the limit experience should endure in shorts at 110 degrees minus three minutes? Difficult to imagine. The supervisor consoles with the information that it is a very dry cold, the humidity would be two or three percent, which is therefore easier to endure. On the other hand, you can interrupt at any time and leave the cabin. There is not much time left to ponder. It starts. First chamber: minus ten degrees in swimming trunks – a shock. It burns on the skin. I feel paralyzed, don’t know whether to move or just wait. The warm-up, which is a cool-up, lasts 30 seconds, then I switch to the next cabin, which is just as simply equipped: light gray paneling, handrail. The change from the first to the second cabin doesn’t seem as extreme as the entry. I feel like a pool of ice cold water. The skin starts to burn again. It is difficult to concentrate on anything mentally. The real experience begins after another 30 seconds: the 110-degree chamber. I shuffle through the door, stop in the middle and wait to see how the body reacts. Does he still react? There are three minutes ahead of me, an eternity. The skin is like an alarm, irritated to the pores. I try to move, I distract myself with any thoughts of how nice it would be outside or in the sauna. But that doesn’t help much. I feel helpless but proud enough to get through this. Three minutes can’t be that long. They are. I stare out the window into the hallway, where thank god there is no one who can watch me.
Finally the bell rings. I push myself stiffly back to the reception room, crawl into my bathrobe and only hear the words of praise from the Waldhotel employee. It takes some time before I get back to normal temperature. After that, the warning says, the body reacts with hot flashes like frost attacks. A strenuous number for the body, in which it consumes many calories, which explains hunger and fatigue. To achieve a lasting effect with cryotherapy, you should do it regularly. Whether I want that too, I have to let go of my frozen head. On the other hand, I’m also proud to have endured such an extreme. There is no certificate that I can hang over my desk. But that’s what we have the social networks for. Or not. As I shiver in shorts in the cold room, I didn’t have to apply for a bachelor’s degree. That’s only enough for a portion of pity.
Compliance: The research was carried out with the support of the Bürgenstock Waldhotel.
A healthy lifestyle, no smoking, little alcohol consumption, endurance sports etc. are the primary treatment strategies according to the Austrian experts. For the first time, 13 Austrian medical associations have published …
A healthy lifestyle, no smoking, little alcohol consumption, endurance sports etc. are the primary treatment strategies according to the Austrian experts.
For the first time, 13 Austrian medical associations have published uniform recommendations on the subject of high blood pressure (hypertension). Accordingly, the following applies: when measured by a doctor etc., values of less than 120 mmHg systolic and less than 80 mmHg diastolic are “optimal”. 120 to 129 mmHg systolic and / or 80 to 84 mmHg diastolic are considered “normal”. “Highly normal” are classified as 130 to 139 mmHg systolic and / or 85 to 89 mmHg diastolic.
Hypertension (in this case grade 1) is present from 140 to 159 mmHg systolic and / or 90 to 99 mmHg diastolic. In addition, there are two other degrees of severity of hypertension (160 to 179 mmHg systolic and / or 100 to 109 mmHg diastolic as grade 2 and more than 180 mmHg systolic and / or more than 110 mmHg diastolic as grade 3). For self-measurement (e.g. at home) the same values apply, but the limit for hypertension is already set at 135/80 mmHg.
Thomas Weber (from the Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen hospital) and the other authors of the Austrian specialist societies (e.g. the Austrian Society for Hypertensiology, Austrian Atherosclerosis Society, etc.) write in the consensus report now published in the Vienna Clinical Weekly: “Among 67 risk factors, that were examined in the Global Burden of Disease study (Global Illness Study; Lancet) was more systolic blood pressure Over 115 mm Hg the leading single risk factor for premature mortality and for disability-adjusted life-years / DALYs worldwide, responsible for 9.4 million deaths and for seven percent of global DALYs.
Around every tenth death worldwide due to high blood pressure
Another analysis of this study found that 14 percent of all global deaths from hypertension (systolic blood pressure over 140 mmHg; Note) can be traced back (…). “There is obviously no lower threshold, at least up to systolic 115 mmHg – the less blood pressure, the better.
According to the experts, a healthy lifestyle, no smoking, little alcohol consumption, endurance sports etc. are the primary treatment strategies. In addition, there are a variety of drugs with different mechanisms of action. The goal should be, possibly with the combination of three or more substances blood pressure to keep bringing them up to standard values.
Here, however, it looks bad in Austria. “In a recent study (2015) with measurements in pharmacies with more than 4,300 patients, only 41 percent of the hypertensives treated who took a prescription reached normotensive blood pressure values. Another new study (2016 to 2017) with pharmacy measurements on more than 10,000 people showed that 29 percent of those without known high blood pressure and 57.3 percent of those with known (and mostly treated) high blood pressure had hypertensive blood pressure values. ”
As part of the “Month of May measurement” campaign in 2017 with triple blood pressure measurements by general practitioners, in pharmacies and in public places, 43.2 percent of untreated people and 63.5 percent of diagnosed and treated hypertension patients had excessively high blood pressure values. “In summary, the rates are on blood pressure-Awareness and blood pressureControl in Austria is not satisfactory and there is an urgent need for action, “wrote the experts.
Whether in the private practice or in the hospital area – the health system is a patient with many ailments. A cure seems possible, but it becomes expensive. Vienna, Achieving the …
Whether in the private practice or in the hospital area – the health system is a patient with many ailments. A cure seems possible, but it becomes expensive.
Vienna, Achieving the zero deficit that the new government is striving for without jeopardizing public health care is anything but realistic for the Austrian Medical Association. The turquoise-green coalition recognized many problems, but showed little sense of realism when it came to solutions.
The focus should be on the treatment of accident victims. The rest of the company moves to the Danube Hospital as part of a cooperation agreement. Vienna. The Lorenz Böhler Hospital …
The focus should be on the treatment of accident victims. The rest of the company moves to the Danube Hospital as part of a cooperation agreement.
Vienna. The Lorenz Böhler Hospital is to become a center for outpatient primary care and mainly treat accident victims. This emerges from an agreement between the City of Vienna and AUVA (Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt), which was presented on Thursday.
This also announced further plans for cooperation between the community hospitals and the two AUVA institutions. According to the broadcast, two large “health bridges” are being created between AUVA and the hospital network. In the south of the city, the accident hospital in Meidling and the Kaiser-Franz-Josef hospital in Favoriten are cooperation partners. In the north, the Lorenz Böhler Hospital in Brigittenau and the municipal Donaus Hospital will be brought closer together.
The Böhler Hospital is to be developed into Vienna’s largest ambulance. The focus is on the treatment of accident victims, but can be expanded to include other medical emergencies if necessary. There should also be observation, nursing and remobilization beds there. The rest of the hospital operation, i.e. the classic surgical care, moves to the Danube Hospital.
Exchange of services
In the future, at least more services will be exchanged between the Meidling and Favoriten locations. Cooperation among others in blood management, in the institutional pharmacy and in training is also sought. An existing collaboration between the AUVA houses and the AKH is to be continued. The agreement was signed by Mayor Michael Ludwig and City Councilor Peter Hacker (both SPÖ), President of the Chamber of Commerce Walter Ruck and AUVA Chairman Mario Watz. In the coming months, the cooperation partners will work out operational details in working groups.
The planned closer cooperation between the Viennese community hospitals and the AUVA had caused excitement in the workforce in mid-December (“Die Presse” reported), as the general management reported in an e-mail about the possibility of managing the Böhler Hospital as Center for outpatient primary care “to be checked”.
Since then there have been fears that the Böhler hospital could be smashed and closed. Even if the hospital did not close, the outsourcing would result in the loss of skills acquired over many years, such as hand and reconstruction surgery. This affects not only the patients, but also young doctors who are deprived of training opportunities.
The Böhler Hospital supplies a quarter of the Viennese population – as does the Meidling Hospital. The two hospitals are the only accident hospitals (with around 140,000 patients per year) in Vienna. (Red.)
Drug shortages are a big problem – not only in Austria. The Ministry of Health now wants to defuse it by means of a regulation. But experts are skeptical. Vienna. Medicines …
Drug shortages are a big problem – not only in Austria. The Ministry of Health now wants to defuse it by means of a regulation. But experts are skeptical.
Vienna. Medicines are becoming increasingly scarce. Many Austrians currently get this impression when they – once again – find out in their pharmacy that just the medicine they need is not available. The painkiller Parkemed, for example, RotaTeq (a vaccine against the Rotavirus), the antihypertensive drug valsartan – to name just a few. All of them are currently not available.
There is no doubt that the shortage of medicines has been a problem for a long time, and not just here, but throughout Europe. However: “The situation in Austria has not deteriorated compared to the previous year,” says Christoph Baumgärtel, spokesman for the Federal Office for Safety and Health Care (BASG). He admits: “Especially from 2017 to 2018 there was a very strong increase in non-deliverable drugs.” But: “However, the numbers have been stable since 2019.” Which, of course, does not change the fact that some drugs are scarce.
He points the way to lost paradise, says his friend Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Arik Brauer is vital and versatile like no other: a 91-year-old, uncomfortable survival and universal artist who doesn’t waste …
He points the way to lost paradise, says his friend Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Arik Brauer is vital and versatile like no other: a 91-year-old, uncomfortable survival and universal artist who doesn’t waste any of his talents.
It is a panopticon of fantastic, but also realistic figures. Whimsical creatures from Ottakring, “where life shows its true face”, shape Arik Brauer’s childhood. They enliven his dreams and fuel his imagination. Later he paints and sings to the people who live in his house, “figures from Brueghel pictures”. Some could also come from Manfred Deix.
Like the Huadongel. He collects old hats, puts them on top of each other and always balances the meter-high hat tower. Or Mrs. Wallner. She walks her four guinea pigs in a stroller in the park on sunny days. Unfortunately, she has trouble with the bladder and, together with her pets, gives off an unbelievable stench. For the children of the apartment building on Ludo-Hartmann-Platz it is a test of courage to walk past them.
Or alcohol, the man with a wooden leg who lives in the basement and drinks pure alcohol. Or the woman Shimak. A witty widow who builds a biotope from chamber pots and old umbrellas in her tiny cabinet. And the neighbor, who saves Brauer’s life: a convinced anti-Semite who hides the Judenbuam in the loo in the aisle when SA officers loot her father’s workshop. When the boy leaves his hiding place, he hears the old woman humming: “Judengsindl, sneak up to Palestine!”
In “Uncut Gems” Adam Sandler plays a sinister version of his typical comedy characters: a jeweler trapped in a turbo-capitalist loop. It is one of the best opening sequences of the …
In “Uncut Gems” Adam Sandler plays a sinister version of his typical comedy characters: a jeweler trapped in a turbo-capitalist loop.
It is one of the best opening sequences of the last few years in the cinema: after an accident at work, an Ethiopian opal mine worker with an open fracture of the lower leg is carried outside, while two colleagues take the opportunity to chisel a gem out of the shaft unobserved. The men, like the camera and thus the viewer, are attracted to the iridescent translucency of this opal, sucked into its interior, where you fly to synth music through nebulae and solid formations in rainbow colors and finally, almost unnoticed, you arrive in flesh-like tissue.
Then the camera moves back and we see a medical monitor on which colonoscopic interior views of Howard Ratner’s intestine can be seen. Purest cinema alchemy, which can now be seen on Netflix: In the first few minutes of “Uncut Gems” (senseless German title: “The Black Diamond”) you travel from inorganic to organic matter, from Ethiopia to New York City and skip two more years. In 2012, jewelery retailer Ratner (Adam Sandler), hidden in a frozen fish, received the African opal, which was bought on the black market and is said to earn him around a million at an auction.
Sandler plays this lucky knight as a guy with manic movement patterns who shouts and shouts through the labyrinthine cluster of sales suites and pawnshops known as the Manhattan Diamond District. The engine here is the obvious greed: it guides all life and hustle and bustle in this peculiar interim world, it is indulged, you are not ashamed of it. The New York brothers Josh and Benny Safdie know the area well, their father worked here. Already ten years ago, the then unknown indie directors tried to make this film, but failed to finance it.
A timeless, authentic film jewel
Now, two years after her esteem with the thriller “Good Times”, it worked, even with Adam Sandler, who had once rejected the role. In “Uncut Gems” he shows his best form: He puts on Howard Ratner as a variation of his earlier comedy characters, just as the entire film can be read as a sinister variant of the classic Sandler comedy, in which a more or less averaged average guy clenched it Defies life’s misfortune on its own. The Safdies, however, do not deliver catharsis any more than an ordinary dramaturgy: Ratner must be in constant transit because capital is always in flux; constantly has to find new money because his creditors are already chasing catchers on his heels. He borrowed his opal from a basketball star as a lucky charm (NBA champion Kevin Garnett plays himself) and pawned his diamond ring to bet on him with the cash and hopefully, hopefully to win, because otherwise there would be shifts in the shaft. , ,
He only sees his wife and children, his relatives and his beloved as he walks by. The Safdies make it clear that Ratner is caught in a turbo-capitalist loop of dependencies – and has lost everything that is not worth money. “Uncut Gems” is also a milieu film, cast with actors and amateurs and characterized by a slyness and authenticity that is not coincidentally reminiscent of “Hexenkessel” by Martin Scorsese, who co-produced here.
All of this is frenetically captured by camera ace Darius Khondji, countered by the weightless film music by Daniel Lopatin and flanked by psychotropic flights through the gemstone interior, which are inspired by Eduard Josef Gübelin’s photomicrography and claim to be sensual, claiming astonishment Require admiration.
And at the same time you know: Howard Ratner is no longer able to do this. He can only buy, sell, win, lose. His life is a modern tragedy. And this film is a timeless gem.
In “Epicentro” director Hubert Sauper is dedicated to Cuba. He was awarded the main prize for the best international documentary. Hubert Sauper’s participation in the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Utah …
In “Epicentro” director Hubert Sauper is dedicated to Cuba. He was awarded the main prize for the best international documentary.
Hubert Sauper’s participation in the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Utah was a complete success: The Tyrolean director, whose documentary “epicentro“celebrated its world premiere in the section World Cinema Documentary, received the main prize in this category. In his work, the 53-year-old illuminates Cuba as a historical time capsule and romantic vision in a globalized world.
At the festival founded by Robert Redford with a focus on independent productions, 128 films were on the program in ten days. The Jury Grand Prix for a US documentary was given to Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine for “Boys State”.
The best US drama comes from “Minari” by Lee Isaac Chung. It turns the life of a seven-year-old Korean-American boy upside down when he moves with his family to rural Arkansas. The best international drama was “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness” (directed by Massoud Bakhshi).
One in four Europeans dies after cancer. Vienna, The bad news first: the incidence of cancer is increasing. The better news: At the same time, the mortality rate drops due to …
Vienna, The bad news first: the incidence of cancer is increasing. The better news: At the same time, the mortality rate drops due to better diagnosis and therapy.
But: cancer is becoming an ever greater problem for society. A quarter (26 percent) of deaths in Europe can already be attributed to this. This was the finding of a new report by the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE).
Viennese oncologist Christoph Zielinski explains: “We have to secure access to innovative therapies in order to continue increasing survival rates. This also includes ensuring molecular diagnostics for the individual patient. ”Caring for cancer patients remains one of the most discussed questions in health policy.
The facts, according to experts: The number of newly diagnosed cancers across Europe rose from 1995 to 2018 by around 50 percent from 2.1 million to 3.1 million cases. According to forecasts, the number will increase by a further 775,000 cases from 2018 to 2040.
On the side of cancer survival, there is a distinctly different development. The experts’ report states literally that the number of deaths from cancer continues to rise, from 1995 to 2018 by 20 percent from 1.2 to 1.4 million deaths in Europe.
Better treatment
But this increase has slowed down. “The increasing survival rates (for cancer; note) explain why the number of cancer deaths increased far less rapidly than the incidence of cancer in the years 1995 to 2018 (plus 20 percent in deaths, but plus 50 percent in cancer incidence).” The successes are primarily due to better treatment strategies and an earlier and more accurate diagnosis. Today, individual therapies are available. These were increasingly based on molecular studies of the disease in the individual patient. (APA)
