Health and Medicine

This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.

Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.

Between Arousal and Inhibition

The dentate gyrus is the “input point” for the hippocampus part of the brain. It transmits information from the short term memory to the long term. It consists…

Lung images of twins with asthma add to understanding of the disease

These studies deepen our understanding of asthma and also open up opportunities for personalized therapies that can target specific areas of the lungs. In a…

New remote-controlled 'smart' platform helps in cardiovascular disease treatment

Rapid endothelialization poses challenges, however, when using existing synthetic biomaterials, due to their static properties. Such materials cannot offer…

How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain

Setting off on an Antarctic expedition to Neumayer-Station III, a German Antarctic research station run by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for…

UKE researchers have developed a model to calculate the long-term cholesterol-dependent risk of heart attack

The study shows that the cholesterol which causes cardiovascular diseases is an excellent predictor of cardiovascular incidents such as heart attacks or…

Early immune response may improve cancer immunotherapies

In a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers and colleagues report a new mechanism for detecting…

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