Implementing nutritional medicine into medical curricula: A student-initiated course improves knowledge and attitudes.

Background & Aims: Although the risks and opportunities of nutrition in health trajectories are well known, it is rarely addressed in doctors' daily routine. This is partly related to physicians' lack of confidence in their ability to provide nutritional counselling, possibly due to insufficient training in medical school. Our study aimed at assessing the status quo of nutrition in the German medical curricula and the impact of a recently implemented, student-initiated online teaching initiative on perceived competence, knowledge and attitudes.

Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health ().

Nutrition is a major influential factor in optimizing human health and environmental sustainability. Medical students often do not follow national dietary guideline recommendations. Raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle is important as physicians with healthy lifestyle behaviors are more likely to counsel on nutrition.

Basal autophagy is pivotal for Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells' survival and growth revealing a new strategy for Hodgkin lymphoma treatment.

As current classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) treatment strategies have pronounced side-effects, specific inhibition of signaling pathways may offer novel strategies in cHL therapy. Basal autophagy, a regulated catabolic pathway to degrade cell's own components, is in cancer linked with both, tumor suppression or promotion. The finding that basal autophagy enhances tumor cell survival would thus lead to immediately testable strategies for novel therapies.

Role of arginine vasopressin and terlipressin as first-line vasopressor agents in fulminant ovine septic shock.

Purpose: To compare the effects of first-line therapy with low-dose arginine vasopressin (AVP) or terlipressin (TP) on mesenteric blood flow, plasma AVP levels, organ function and mortality in ovine septic shock.

Methods: Twenty-four adult ewes were anesthetized and instrumented for chronic hemodynamic monitoring. A flow-probe was placed around the superior mesenteric artery, and feces were extracted from the cecum.