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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.

Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health: Under this title, 30 scientists led by microbiologist Michael Wagner from the University of Vienna pool their competences.

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.

The goal is a collection of open-access Nature-based Therapy Guides for different stakeholders, practitioners and policy makers Led by researchers at the University of Vienna, today sees the start of a new 4-year Horizon Europe project investigating the benefits and challenges of nature-based therapies for a range of physical and mental health issues.

SCIENCE4ALL as an example of Public engagement and Open Innovation in basic research - a pioneer Project for Pioneering Minds SCIENCE4ALL, a project led by Valentina Biasin [Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical University of Graz, and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Pulmonary Vascular Research] is a Public and Patients Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) project in basic science.

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.

Markus Schosserer, Research Group Leader at MedUni Vienna's Institute of Medical Genetics, receives an extensive research grant from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Hevolution Foundation for a project investigating ageing processes.

A MedUni Vienna overview study reveals gender-specific differences in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in women and men.

10 experts from the University of Vienna who do research on the topic of Planetary Health The topic of "Planetary Health" is considered by experts at the University of Vienna across all research fields.

Children, adolescents and young adults who have or had cancer are supported by the international project EU-CAYAS-NET (sub-project of the EU4Health programme).

Every year, approximately 17.3 million people are currently dying of cardiovascular disease every year.

For several years, a complex microsurgical procedure called free flap surgery has been performed for head and neck cancer at the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna's Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases.