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Implantable blood pumps have become the standard treatment for adult patients with heart insufficiency.

Around seven percent of children in Austria are born prematurely, i.e. before the 37th week of pregnancy.

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.

Parents don't have it easy - but a JKU study shows how stressful parenthood can really be. The study was conducted by Johannes Kepler University Linz in cooperation with Danish colleagues.

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.