[Ten years of manual medicine at Unisanté : retrospective and illustration].

A manual medicine consultation has existed in the canton of Vaud for ten years now, developed within Unisanté, the university centre for general medicine and public health in Lausanne. For a long time, this consultation was the only one of its kind set up in a university setting in Switzerland. Despite a growing interest and a more important development in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany, this approach remains relatively unknown to patients and therapists in the French-speaking cantons.

[2020 scientific breakthroughs in ambulatory general internal medicine].

Functional weakness of the limbs has an uncertain prognosis and little chance of recovery. Obese people in precarious situations may succeed in losing weight through an intensive lifestyle-based weight loss program. In patients with gonarthrosis, physiotherapy may decrease pain and disability when compared to injected corticosteroids.

[2019 scientific breakthroughs in ambulatory general internal medicine].

In healthy adults, vitamin D does not prevent falls or hip fractures. The diabetogenic effect of topical steroids is significant and dose dependent. Pulmonary embolism can be surely ruled out by the YEARS algorithm adapted to pregnancy.