New S3 guideline: Do not reflexively reduce fever in children
The new national S3 guideline "Fever management in children and adolescents" focuses on the well-being of the child instead of simply lowering the temperature. The guideline, which was developed under the auspices of the German Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent...
Interprofessional training station started as a pilot project in neurology
The University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden is testing an interprofessional training station (IPSTA) in the Department of Neurology for the first time. Medical students and nursing trainees independently take over the care of patients, including diagnostics and...
Nanobody penetrates cells and repairs defective CFTR channel in cystic fibrosis
A tiny antibody building block could fundamentally change the treatment of cystic fibrosis. Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) have succeeded for the first time in developing a...
PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW: “We will probably not be able to avoid giving a higher tax subsidy to the statutory health insurance companies”
"The large digital corporations pay absurdly little tax on their profits in Germany," but make "outrageously high profits," criticizes Green Bundestag member Karoline Otte in an interview with the newspaper "Das Parlament". She is calling for a digital tax of ten...
World Haemophilia Day 2026: Diagnosis as the first step towards care
On April 17, 2026, the global community will celebrate World Hemophilia Day under the motto "Diagnosis: First step to care". The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) deliberately focuses on diagnosis. Early and accurate detection of congenital bleeding disorders is...
Long-term chances of cure for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis significantly higher than expected
The long-term treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are significantly better than previously assumed. This is the result of a large national cohort study from Latvia, which was conducted in close cooperation with the German Center for...
DZNE criticizes G-BA evaluation of donanemab and methodological deficiencies in the Cochrane review
The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) has criticized the benefit assessment of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) on the Alzheimer's drug donanemab (Kisunla) as inappropriate. Prof. Gabor Petzold, Director of Clinical Research at the DZNE, described...
12th Central German Laboratory Conference 2026 in Weimar: Strong programme on diagnostics, precision medicine and future topics
From 23 to 24 April 2026 The 12th Central German Laboratory Conference will take place in Weimar. The established training event is aimed at young scientists, doctors in training, medical-technical assistants and experienced colleagues from laboratory medicine and...
When laboratory values lose their frame of reference: missing reference intervals in layperson questions in an online health forum
Direct patient access to laboratory results and the widespread use of AI-based chatbots for medical information have shifted laboratory value interpretation into digital, largely unsupervised settings. Because numerical laboratory values are only meaningful when...
Sensation: World’s first specific antibody against vasoinhibin developed
Researchers at the Nuremberg Hospital and the Paracelsus Medical University have developed the world's first monoclonal antibody that specifically and sensitively recognizes vasoinhibin (16 kDa prolactin). The international patent application protects the antibody as...
