Prof. Angelika Eggert leads coordination efforts to treat Ukrainian pediatric cancer patients, and explains how their allocation is done across sixty clinics across Germany.
We're almost there, but medicine faces many challenges before humans can land on the Red Planet.
A young Guatemalan migrant arrives at the clinic with short breath and abnormal lung values. Could disseminated tuberculosis (common back home) be blamed?
The fight on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is gaining new arsenal. But global migration patterns are posing new challenges.
Dr. Dirk Heinrich (SpiFA Chairman) sheds light on the challenges posed by the arrival of Ukrainian war refugees in need of medical care in Germany.
We interview Dr. Paul Garassus, current European Union of Private Hospitals' president on refugee aid coordination in the countries bordering Ukraine.
The European Society of Emergency Medicine is preparing videos to urgently train Ukrainian health workers. The project is a collaboration with the WHO Academy.
Every war is followed by another. For Dr. Igor Auriant, the war in Ukraine is reminiscent of his mission in Liberia. There, too, death showed its vile face.
We interview Dr. Gaya Spolverato, Women in Surgery Italia" co-founder, which supports female surgeons to develop their full personal and professional potential.
Dr Rostyslav Boyko has launched an appeal to raise funds to support colleagues who are busy coping with what many believe could soon become a humanitarian catastrophe.
Convoys with medical supplies are traveling from Geneva to Kiev. Behind this operation is a humanitarian organisation of Swiss physicians, whose chairman is himself of Ukrainian origin.
During the Russian war on Ukraine, German physicians and psychotherapists assure colleagues and Ukrainian refugees of their solidarity.
Humanitarian aid is needed as basic subsistance is in jeopardy for many. Non-profit organizations mobilized to ensure all donations reach their destination.
With the Positive Exposure NGO, photographer Rick Guidotti portrays those with genetic, physical or mental diversity in a new light, battling stigmas.
Rare disease diagnostics is time intensive and rarely valued in economic thinking in medicine. Dr. Dorit Fabricius supports new paradigms on this issue.
Researchers have developed an app that photographs suspicious skin changes and sends them to hospital-based dermatologists for image analysis
In the USA and Canada, three digits are used for all emergency types. It may seem like a simple and effective system, but complexity lurks underneath.
911 (nine-one-one) may be the best-known telephone number in the world. In the USA and Canada, these three digits are used to access emergency services of all kinds.
Cytochrome P450 proteins influence drugs degradation in the body, but also trigger drug interactions. What influence do polymorphisms have on drug effects?
When Atum spread his divine seed over Egypt, could he have guessed that from the 18th century onwards masturbation would agitate the medical world so much?