Medlabportal wishes you a successful and exciting year 2026
Welcome to the year 2026 on medlabportal.de – your reliable portal for laboratory medicine and clinical chemistry. As the official information medium of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL), we offer experts from the laboratory...
Review of the year 2025: Prof. Findeisen on the pilot project on the importance of blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer’s diagnostics
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Findeisen is a specialist in laboratory medicine and medical director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the MVZ Laboratory Dr. Limbach & Kollegen in Heidelberg. As an adjunct professor at the University of Heidelberg (Medical Faculty...
Law guarantees the right to a free copy of the treatment file
In future, patients will be entitled to a free copy of their treatment file. The Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the AOK Federal Association, Dr. Carola Reimann, welcomes this new regulation in the "Act on the Amendment of Consumer Contract and Insurance...
Heart Foundation warns: Do not hesitate to call the heart attack emergency number 112 on public holidays
The German Heart Foundation strongly advises to dial the emergency number 112 immediately if you suspect a heart attack, even during the holidays. Many sufferers wait and see, which can have fatal consequences, as the infarction destroys heart muscle tissue and can...
Dresden study reveals new role of MCL1 in cancer cells
Researchers from the Mildred Scheel Junior Research Group at the Technical University of Dresden have shown for the first time that the protein MCL1 not only inhibits apoptosis, but also controls tumor metabolism. The work, led by Mohamed Elgendy and published in...
Düsseldorf team uncovers common cause of thrombosis and aneurysms
Researchers at the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University Hospital Düsseldorf and Heinrich Heine University have shown that the interaction between platelets and erythrocytes via the proteins CD36 and TSP-1 promotes both thrombosis and...
NRAHF calls for funding for heart registries
The National Register for Congenital Heart Defects takes stock of the petition "Every heart counts" and appeals to politicians to create reliable funding for medical registers. Although the draft of the Medical Register Act offers a framework, it fails to secure...
H3N2: Facts instead of panic – The current flu situation 2025/2026 explained in an understandable way
The 2025/2026 flu season is in full swing, and in many countries, including the US and Europe, the H3N2 influenza A subtype dominates, especially the new genetic variant Subclade K. Media reports sometimes speak of a "new dangerous variant" or even "super flu", which...
Funding for new diagnostic procedure for collagenosis
The PREDICT-CTD project will receive 2.7 million euros from the zukunft.niedersachsen programme. Over a period of five years, a team from TWINCORE, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Hannover Medical School led by Theresa Graalmann and Yannic Bartsch has been...
KKNMS criticizes abuses in ASV multiple sclerosis
In a statement, the Multiple Sclerosis Competence Network has denounced administrative and content-related deficits in outpatient specialist care for MS patients. The ASV-MS, introduced in 2024, does not meet its goals of better coordination and quality improvement,...
