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Claudia Zimmermann, a member of the Department of Epidemiology at MedUni Vienna's Center for Public Health, has been awarded this year's Best Paper Award by the Austrian Society for Epidemiology for

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of conspiracy theories became clear, especially in the vaccination debate.

The communications team at the University of Innsbruck will increasingly rely on the microblogging service Mastodon for science communication.

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.

Katta Spiel researches how people with disabilities experience their access to technology. For this work, Spiel has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

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.

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.

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

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).

To mark World Hypertension Day on 17 May, MedUni Vienna is raising awareness about the growing number of children and adolescents with high blood pressure.

Three-quarters of the products that German-speaking influencers post about on various social media channels are so unhealthy that they contravene the WHO (World Health Organization) advertising standards for children.

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