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.

Adrenocortical carcinoma: No mitotane for low risk of recurrence

In the ADIUVO clinical trial, Professors of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Massimo Terzolo (University of Turin, Italy) and Martin Fassnacht (University of Würzburg) and their teams were able to demonstrate…

Multiple sclerosis: New approach for repairing damaged nerve sheaths

In MS patients, misdirected immune cells damage the sheaths of the nerve cells in the brain. Researchers at the MHH have discovered a mechanism by which these can be repaired…

Researchers decode new antibiotic

Cooperation between the University of Bonn, the USA and the Netherlands cracks the mode of action of clovibactin. More and more bacterial pathogens are developing resistance. There is an increasing…

Intermittent fasting improves Alzheimer’s pathology

Mice on a time-restricted feeding schedule had better memory and less accumulation of amyloid proteins in the brain compared to controls. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is disruption…

How harmless turns dangerous

MHH researcher Prof. Galardini from the RESIST Cluster of Excellence finds causes for bloodstream infections in the genes of bacteria. Escherichia coli bacteria live in the intestines of humans and…

The anatomy of memory: new mnemomic networks discovered in the brain

Using a novel approach of precision neuroimaging and high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists and physicists at MPI CBS in Leipzig (Germany) and anatomist Menno Witter from the Kavli…

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