Diagnostics

Patients with Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or other inflammatory diseases are often treated with adalimumab. However, long-term therapy success is not always achieved. As a recent study [...]

RIDA®QUICK ADM Monitoring is a rapid test for adalimumab drug concentration monitoring which supports timely dose adjustments in clinical practice. A poster about the validation of the test was [...]

Clostridium difficile is one of the most frequent pathogens in nosocomial infections – but in spite of this many people have never heard of it. Since November is officially “Clostridium [...]

An estimated 540 million people worldwide suffer from lower back pain. When the pain becomes chronic, a rheumatic illness such as Bechterew’s disease may be the cause.

The year’s wet and cold season begins in October along with the annual flu season. After an extraordinarily severe flu wave in 2017/18, experts are warning that the flu should not be [...]

Through early detection, almost all colorectal cancers can be cured or even prevented. The exam is effective and simple – and it is not performed often enough. The new invitation process is [...]

Chronic inflammatory diseases like Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatism respond well to treatment with the TNF-α blockers infliximab and adalimumab. Monitoring the [...]

More than half of the world’s population suffers from an inflammation of the gastric mucosa called gastritis. These patients are at risk of developing a gastric ulcer, a duodenal ulcer or even [...]

The guideline of the Joint National Committee (G-BA) requires laboratories to switch to a new test procedure for early detection of colon cancer. We have summarized what you need to consider in [...]

Now that summer is here, people are spending more and more time outside. Warm temperatures certainly make activities like swimming, hiking, jogging and picnicking more attractive. But forests and [...]