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.

How high altitude changes your body’s metabolism

When mice are exposed to chronically low levels of oxygen, similar to those experienced at 4,500 meters of elevation, their metabolism changes. Compared to those of us who live at…

Drug from cancer chemotherapy helps fight deadly fungal infections

Infections with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus are difficult to fight – especially because the fungus forms a biofilm and can thus protect itself from antifungal drugs and the immune defence…

What leads to severe COVID-19 diseases?

MHH research team analyses genetic and epigenetic regulators. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to severe disease in some people, while others do not get ill or only experience mild disease. But…

Successful cure of HIV infection after stem cell transplantation

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of severe blood cancers is the only medical intervention that has cured two people living with HIV in the past. An international group…

Discovery in zebrafish may lead to a better understanding

… of a wide range of mental health disorders related to stress, anxiety. Virginia Tech research points to a molecule critical in development of the brain’s stress response. Virginia Tech…

Iron deficiency in heart failure: tablet as an alternative to infusion?

MHH cardiology starts the multicentre ORION HF study. She wants to find out whether a preparation in tablet form can correct iron deficiency and alleviate the typical symptoms of heart…

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