War in the Middle East: Destruction of medical care
The conflict between the US, Israel and Iran, which began on February 28, 2026 with massive air strikes, has massively destabilized medical care in the Middle East after a week. Hospitals and health facilities in Iran, Lebanon, Israel and neighboring countries have...
Updated S3 guideline recommends antibody therapies in early Alzheimer’s disease
The S3 guideline "Dementia" as a living guideline of the German Society of Neurology (DGN) and the German Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN) has been updated. It is aimed at the care of more than 1.8 million dementia patients...
The personal health check of the UMG laboratory: The detectives of blood
The Personal Health Check of the UMG Laboratory (Interdisciplinary Laboratory of the University Medical Center Göttingen) is a voluntary, purely privately paid laboratory examination service for people who want to check their state of health in a targeted manner –...
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on chronic stress assessed by hair cortisol analysis via LC-MS/MS
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures have had profound effects on mental health worldwide. This study aimed to assess changes in long-term stress levels across three distinct time periods – pre-lockdown, during lockdown, and post-lockdown – by...
Bispecific antibody stops life-threatening combination of ITP and APS
An interdisciplinary team from the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic III at the LMU Klinikum München has successfully treated a young patient with severe, therapy-resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with the bispecific antibody...
MMP11: Promising biomarker for liquid biopsy in metastatic prostate cancer
A research team at OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology in Dresden has identified the protein MMP11 (matrix metalloproteinase 11) as a potentially highly relevant biomarker for metastatic prostate cancer. The marker can be detected in blood...
New research project PREVENT is looking for non-hormonal contraceptives with few side effects
An interdisciplinary research team from Goethe University Frankfurt, the University Hospital Bonn and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has launched the PREVENT project. The aim is to develop novel, non-hormonal contraceptive methods for women and men. The...
Healthy diet lowers cholesterol only to a limited extent – medication often indispensable
On the occasion of Healthy Nutrition Day on 7 March, the German Heart Foundation emphasises the central role of a healthy lifestyle in protecting against heart attacks and strokes. Nutrition plays an important but not decisive role in lowering LDL cholesterol, the...
Kiel researchers develop ultra-light aerohydrogels for realistic brain cell cultures
An interdisciplinary team at Kiel University (CAU), in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Oxford, has developed a novel ultralight 3D material that enables human brain cells to grow and network realistically in three...
HZB commissions state-of-the-art reactor platform for thin-film catalysts
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has commissioned the largest single investment of the project to date as part of the large-scale CatLab project. The test facility built by the Berlin-based company ILS with eight parallel chemical reactors has now been delivered and...
