Dedicated to biology, health sciences, and medical research, this category highlights advancements in understanding life processes and improving healthcare
137 Publications
Roland Mertelsmann
Albert-Ludwigs Universität
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. President Roosevelt first established the National Cancer Institute and, later, President Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act of 1971…
Christoph Borner, Cristina Arranz
The School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires hosts the third International Congress on Translational Medicine on November 21st and 22nd, under the auspices of the…
Dieter Schmidt, Andrzej Grzybowski
Uniklinik Freiburg
Wiktor Feliks Szokalski had an eventful life as a physician. He joined the Polish army in 1831. Szokalski was expatriated and immigrated to Germany, where he continued his medical studies…
Dieter Schmidt, Andrzej Grzybowski
Uniklinik Freiburg
Background: To call attention to the surgical procedures by Boleslaw Wicherkiewicz. Methods: Evaluation of Wicherkiewiczof important publications which were published in German journals. Results: Victor Boleslaw Wicherkiewiczsl published about 300…
Ruben Villaverde
ENGLISH: We are experiencing the greatest technological and scientific advances in the history of mankind with a profound impact on the concepts, research and practice of medicine. SPANISH: Estamos en…
Dieter Schmidt
Uniklinik Freiburg
Background: The clinical picture of giant cell arteritis was first described in detail by Horton et al. in 1932. In the following decades, abundant articles and some books had been…
Gerhard Nehmiz
Dr. Gerhard Nehmiz, Biberach, Germany, presents four reading lists on the Bayes approach in Medical Statistics - (1) References that had, from his subjective point view, historically the highest impact…
Stefan Fröhling
Stefan Fröhling has a long-standing interest in identifying genetic abnormalities that define disease subgroups and treatment outcome in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Furthermore, he works to identify new cancer…
Thomas Freund
Uniklinik Freiburg, IMBS
The use of growth hormone has risen in the last years. Apart from its interactions in growth and metabolism, its use has been approved in different clinical conditions which do…
Verena Wölker
Uniklinik Freiburg
This study demonstrates crosstalk between Growth Hormone (GH) and Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) in two different breast cancer cell lines. Long-term modification of cell viability and the ERK1/2 and AKT…
