Key areas of research in the diagnosis and treatment of MPS...
Professor Dr François Eyskens of PCMA vzw discusses early diagnosis of MPS diseases by creating awareness and using a tandem mass spectrometry screening method.
MPS...
Advancing cannabinoid therapies through research
Canada’s medical cannabis company Tilray defines a medical path for cannabinoid use
Tilray is actively pursuing the daunting goal of delivering innovative, safe and effective...
Obesity treatment: a new efficient paradigm
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Obesity is an immense global health challenge and...
The genetics of cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s biggest killers today, claiming the lives of almost 18 million people every year. Understanding what causes them and how...
Canada’s collaboration-based research strategy to face the challenge of dementia
Dementia – the new life thief
In the history of humanity, infectious diseases were once the great life thieves. Smallpox, black plague and tuberculosis robbed...
The Werther effect – the handling of suicide in the media
Vivien Kogler and Alexander Noyon from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences investigate suicidality as an important social subject and the role of medial presentation...
Asthma and issues
Researchers at the University Hospital Basel discuss developments in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and allergies
Asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disease...
Aarhus University shares the merits of computational medicine
The Health Technology Program at Aarhus University applies computational biology to investigate the heterogeneity of tumours
Increasing computational power combined with enhanced access to imaging...
INOVA+ discusses the Organisational Life Assistant
INOVA+ discusses the Organisational Life Assistant – a virtual presence to provide a healthier, safer and more organised life for older adults
The European Commission’s...
Obesity – feeding the body or the mind?
Professor Dr Kerstin M Oltmanns of the University of Lübeck opens a new perspective on the epidemic of 2.2 billion overweight people
Obesity is a...
The origins of asthma
Led by Professor Hans Bisgaard, the COPSAC research unit focuses on phenotyping children and their environmental exposures to study asthma and other chronic inflammatory...
BPA in inoperable CTEPH patients
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a common form of pulmonary hypertension. Up to 5% of patients who survive acute pulmonary embolism will develop...
It’s not all about inflammation
EU programmes at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, provide novel insights into the mechanisms behind the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes
Cardiovascular disease...
Disaster as a discipline
The Emergency and Disaster Medicine Group of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, asks how academia can help manage mass casualty situations.
The Emergency and Disaster Medicine...
The Bavarian way of biobanking
The German Heart Center Munich sets an example for the combination of smart biobanking, biomarker research and data science
High-quality biobanking for tissue and body...
The professionals
The head of KU Leuven’s Unit of Emergency Medicine, Marc Sabbe, considers the reactions of medical professionals in terror attacks
Mass casualty incidents can no...
The University of Genoa uses mesenchymal stem cells to treat neurodegenerative...
The University of Genoa uses mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Regenerative medicine represents a challenging area facing one of...
Vaccines versus the flu
Eurocine Vaccines plans clinical trials including the elderly in the influenza season, as Hans Arwidsson details
Eurocine Vaccines (AktieTorget:EUCI) is planning its next clinical step...
Firing up the swallowing network
The University Hospital Münster
The University Hospital Münster, Germany, uses peripheral and central stimulation strategies to treat post-stroke dysphagia. The oropharyngeal swallow involves a rapid, highly...
The University of Waterloo reconciles agriculture and water quality
Agricultural nutrient legacies delay the recovery of healthy aquatic ecosystems, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo, Canada
Agriculture is a dominant source of...
