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.

Experimental compound counters diabetic complications

An experimental compound reduced complications of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice – not by lowering blood sugar – but by countering its consequences: cell death, inflammation, and…

Researchers deliver road map of lung development

Research offers new understanding of lung development, diseases that affect millions. Researchers have compiled the most comprehensive road map of the protein composition of human lungs, providing a clearer picture…

Protection against the consequences of heart attacks

“Immortality protein” fires up the cell’s power plants. The aging researchers Prof. Judith Haendeler from the Medical Faculty and the molecular biologist Prof. Joachim Altschmied from the Department of Biology…

How the “thermostat” in the brain measures impending overheating

Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital currently describe in “Neuron” where heat-sensitive neurons in the brain obtain the necessary information / “Outsourced” sensor proteins allow adapted thermoregulation. The mechanisms by which…

Prognosis for effectiveness of leukaemia therapy possible eleven months earlier

MHH research team finds biomarker for treatment success with donor lymphocyte infusion. When chemotherapy does not help a leukemia patient, stem cell transplantation is the last resort. In this case,…

New values for better diagnoses

MHH study develops reference tool for blood tests. Lymphocytes belong to the white blood cells. They consist of several subgroups with different tasks in immune defence. Which and how many…

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