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The number of people with addictions has also risen significantly in Austria recently - and there is no end in sight to this trend. Against this background, the book "Sucht. Neue Erkenntnisse und Behandlungswege" is published by MANZ-Verlag as part of MedUni Vienna's "Health Knowledge" series. In it, Gabriele Fischer and Arkadiusz Komorowski from MedUni Vienna's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy counter traditional ways of thinking with scientifically based facts.

The treatment of movement disorders, such as tremor, is now possible at University Hospital Vienna/Medical University of Vienna without opening the brain and without general anesthesia.

) The Holocaust and other mass murders under the Nazi regime would hardly have been conceivable without the involvement of medical professionals.

Thomas Reiberger, a hepatologist at MedUni Vienna's Department of Medicine III, has taken up a professorship (§99/4) at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, effective November 1, 2023.

Surgical removal of parts of the liver remains the only curative approach for patients with liver-specific cancer.

Elias Laurin Meyer, PhD graduate of MedUni Vienna, has been awarded the prize for the best dissertation in applied statistics by the Austrian Statistical Society for his dissertation written at the Institute of Medical Statistics at the Medical University of Vienna.

To mark World Mental Health Day on October 10, the journal European Psychiatry published a special issue on "The Value of Treatment (VOT)", focusing on early intervention and continuity of care for mental disorders (anorexia nervosa, autism, and major depressive disorder).

Alice Assinger, a natural scientist at MedUni Vienna's Institute of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, has taken up a professorship (§99/4) in the subject field Cardiovascular Medicine with effect from 1 October 2023.

Patient safety is a central aspect of healthcare and plays a role wherever patient care takes place.

, Vulnerable groups, such as immigrants, face particular challenges in the health care system. Stereotypes, such as the insinuation of exaggerated pain expression, can have a significant impact on the care of these patients.

Heat waves are not only a threat to physical health, but also have negative effects on the psyche. Anxiety disorders and depression can be caused or aggravated by the enormous stress caused by prolonged temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius.

At the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna, a kidney was successfully transplanted into an immunologically highly sensitised patient for the first time in Austria as part of a clinical trial using a new enzyme therapy.

The Core Facilities organisational unit of MedUni Vienna, headed by Johann Wojta, has been awarded a grant worth €2.3 million for the project "HighWay2Cell - a platform for high resolution sin

As an open-access journal of oncology, ESMO Open aims to rapidly disseminate outstanding results from innovative clinical and translational cancer research and to improve the quality of education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and patient care worldwide. Led by cancer researchers at MedUni Vienna, the journal gained scientific impact in the most recent international rankings.

In the scientific discourse on possible improvements in pandemic management in the top journal "The Lancet", a letter under the lead of the Medical University of Vienna was recently published.

Despite enormous medical advances in recent decades, lung cancer is still one of the most common tumour diseases and the cause of most cancer deaths worldwide.

A new type of aortic prosthesis was implanted for the first time in Austria at the Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of General Surgery and the Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Ra

A team from the Kiev University Hospital completed several months of training at the Department of Thoracic Surgery at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna as part of the Vienna Lung Transplant Programme 2021.

In order to prevent a recurrence after a life-threatening cardiac event, secondary prevention measures such as health-promoting behaviour immediately after interventional treatment are particularly important.