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...
Repurposing for rare diseases
Healx Ltd aims to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases by intelligently matching drug treatments
There are over 8,000 rare diseases affecting an...
NeptunLab explains the developments in healthcare material platforms
Dr Bastian Rapp of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s NeptunLab explains how material research is key to the future of healthcare research
Healthcare research is situated...
The evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance: A call for more...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already existed in the environment before antibiotics were used in human medicine.1 Besides promoting the development of new resistance traits, the way...