Marinomed Biotech AG: Budesolv with a strongly decreased dose of the active ingredient compared to the marketed product Rhinocort Aqua shows pronounced efficacy already after first application – clinical validation of the Marinosolv® platform • Phase III study successfully completed preparing the ground for entering a multi-billion-dollar market• Even after the first application, Budesolv exhibits…
Health centres for the homeless: evaluation requires trust
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The findings of an international study have now been published by the Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment Vienna, (Austria) 11 April 2019 – Trust is a vital factor when it comes to evaluating health centres for socially disadvantaged people. This is a basic recommendation of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology…
Psychological intervention study: even brief abstinence from social media causes withdrawal symptoms
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Researchers from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences identify addiction-like behaviour after time away from social media Krems (Austria), 14 November 2018 – In many cases, just a seven-day break from social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp is sufficient to induce withdrawal symptoms like those caused by addictive substances. This is the conclusion…
Europe and USA: agreement on definition and diagnosis of specific form of high blood pressure
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Physician from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences plays a part in global consensus-building process Krems (Austria), 6 November 2018 – A transcontinental agreement was recently reached on the definition and diagnosis of a particular form of high blood pressure. Until now, it was difficult to outline a generally accepted set of symptoms – and…
Donor Organs on Demand: Research Looks at Lifelike Organ Models Produced on 3D Printers
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Biomedical engineers from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems launch project focused on 3D printing of tissue models Krems, 02 October 2018 – A research project recently initiated at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences aims to produce organ models with realistic material properties. These biological replicas will mainly be deployed in research…
On the “shelf life” of water: Hot on the trail of the biostability of water using state-of-the-art DNA and cell analysis
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Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems launches project to study the growth of water-based microorganisms Krems (Austria), 9 August 2018 – In order to better understand and assess the quality of ground and spring water, state-of-the-art methods from the fields of molecular biology and microbiology, as well as chemical high-performance analytics are now…
Clinical Results of Neurodegenerative Study
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AFFiRiS Announces Results of a Phase I Clinical Study Using AFFITOPEs® PD01A and PD03A, Confirming Safety and Tolerability for Both Compounds as well as Immunogenicity for PD01A in Early MSA patients AFFITOPEs® PD01A and PD03A Safe and Well Tolerated: Primary Endpoint of Phase I Study Met Immune Response against AFFITOPE® PD01A and Alpha-Synuclein Seen in…
Unconditionally, Ernst Toller
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Unconditionally, Ernst TollerErnst Toller was a revolutionary, a man of letters, a politician and an indefatigable writer of letters. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a collection of his correspondence between 1915 and 1939 has now been edited with a commentary. It opens up a 24-year window to a period of radical…
The grammar of movement
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Like spoken language, sign language has a complex and differentiated structure. One just has to be able to discern and interpret it. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team from Klagenfurt is working on the elements of a grammar of sign language. It is language that distinguishes Homo sapiens from…
Hidden HIV Revealed: New Insights Into Latent HIV Infections
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In spite of ever more effective therapies, HIV keeps managing to survive in the body. A comprehensive project conducted by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has clarified the molecular processes which contribute to this effect. In the process, approaches were discovered for possible therapies to combat the hidden reservoir formed by the virus. Thanks to…