Personalized therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (PETRA): a protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of a psychological intervention in rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that primarily affects cartilage and bone. Psychological stress can both trigger disease exacerbation and result from disease activity. As standard pharmacological interventions alone have limited success in treating RA, a more comprehensive biopsychosocial approach to treatment has been recommended.

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The German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) confers the Salomon Neumann Medal for outstanding merit in the field of Preventive and Social Medicine. The Salomon Neumann Medal 2017 was awarded to Gerhard Trabert, founder and chairman of the association "Poverty and Health in Germany" and professor for social medicine und social psychiatry at the RheinMain University of applied sciences in Wiesbaden. It honours a physician in the field of social medicine, whose personality and activity as "doctor for the poor of today", carries the sociopolitical engagement of Salomon Neumann, fittingly to the 200 birthday of the award's name giver, into our time.

[Health care reform as a development of the health care system].

The German health care system is undergoing a serious crisis. Current health care policies have been failing badly. The parties involved in the provision of health care are willing and able to conduct health reform.