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Doctors of the state hospital criticize that the children of the province of Salzburg are not so much interested in sport anymore. 20 years ago their predecessors were much more sporty and healthier. The blame for the worrying development got the playstation. But also parents are not that innocent. They are too anxious and fear [...]

The amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is increasing rapidly, warns the director of the Austrian Anton Proksch Institute Michael Musalek. If this trend continues, the amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is going to redouble. Alcohol seems to be very popular in the Alpine Republic. The country takes the top places in [...]

Austrias most eastern province of Burgenland is the home of Austrias most eager blood donors. Every year the people from Burgenland give more than 10.000 litre blood. 5 percent of all Burgenlanders are regular blood donors. Austrias Red Cross tries to get blood donors with slogans like “Give blood, save lifes”, or “If you want [...]

The Green party locates massive grievances in the psychiatry of Vienna again. 6 months ago the investigation committee of Viennas local council finished the last investigations. Now the Greens think that “old mistakes are done again”. The main reproach is the suspicion that mentally disturbed patients have to live isolated in special buildings. Green politican [...]

The leader of the workshop for prophylaxis of addiction in Vorarlbergs Western province of Vorarlberg damns the reviviscence of cheap alcohol in discotheques. The critical man even locates a “barbarization”. He demands a discussion with mayors and public authorities from towns and villages with discotheques. Alcoholic drinks should be more expensive again, is the main [...]

A study of a French research scientist revealed that Austrian girls are one of the most slender ones in Europe. Only girls from France and Italy are slimmer. French girls have a body mass index of 23,2 and are the winners of the analyis. The results were published in the new issue of the professional [...]

A controversial topic occurred about a new book which discusses mistakes in Austrian hospitals. The author promotes his work even in TV shows. He claims that Austrian hospitals are a deathtrap, because too many mistakes happen which cause death. Doctors are upset and deny the reproaches. One of the complaints is that 17 percent of [...]

An investigation of a pet food manufacturer revealed the result that every third dog in Austria is too fat. Reasons are wrong feeding and too little move. Castrated and sterilized dogs have a higher risk for overweight. Even the weight of the dog owner has a huge influence on the weight of the dog. The [...]

Jörg Haider is the minister president of Austrias Southern federal state Carinthia. His party rules the province since 1999. This seems to be a thorn in the flesh of Carinthias Socialdemocrats. Emotional critics and getting caught up in each other’s blame is part of the political everyday life in Carinthia. Now the Socialdemocratic party whip [...]

According to an article on the website of the Austrian Broadcasting, one million Austrian men are impotent. The only way to avoid impotence is to do a lot of sport, and an additional wastage of 4.000 calories every week. Austrian men are known for their carelessness about their health. Potency could be a good motivation [...]

Austrian midwifes criticize the high amount of Caesarean operations. Every fourth baby in Austria is born that way. The federal state of Burgenland in the leader of Caesarean operations. The midwifes in Austria are not happy with such a development. “Soon every second baby is born by Caesarean operation”, moans a speaker of the midwifes. [...]

Every year 12.000 young men from Lower Austria have to go to the army physical. In the last years every fifth of them is not useful for the Austrian army. 25 percent of the impractical men have mental problems and psychical conspicuities. The main reasons for such a result are wrong nutrition, no sport, and [...]

A clinic in Carinthia for in vitro fertilization is out of sperm. Now they have started an appeal for help through the medias. Fire fighters from Carinthia should come and provide the clinic with their sperm. The manager of the clinic for in vitro fertilization in Carinthias capital Klagenfurt is in deep trouble. He is [...]

The people from Austrias Western province Tirol have the highest life expectancy in Austria. This is the result of “Statistik Austria”. The average Tirolean man who is born today, can expect to turn 78 years. Female Tiroleans have a life expectancy of 84 years. The two places of Tirol with the highest life expectancy are [...]

The 85-year-old woman from Lower Austria wanted to make “leech therapy”. Her doctor fixed 20 leeches on the body of the old woman. Leeches should help against impaired circulations. On the next day the 85-year-old was dead. She died because of acute anaemia. The leeches took too much blood from her. Now the female doctor [...]

Horrible news from the city of Salzburg. 13 customers of a supermarket in Salzburg were infected with the hepatitis A virus (jaundice), because they bought meat from the supermarkets delicacies unit. The circulator of the disease was the butcher of the supermarket, which is located in the Salzburg district of Schallmoos. The supermarket had to [...]

Already 30 percent of all Austrian girls have abnormal eating behaviours. They are suffering under anorexia or bulimia. This means they are addicted to eat, and to vomit their meal in succession. Experts say those kind of things are the diseases for women of the 21th century. Girls want to have a thin body at [...]

Austria had more popular health ministers in its history as the present one. Now doctors in Austria are even going on strike, to protest against the new law in the health system. A strike of doctors in Austria is something very unsusual, but Austrias health minister made it possible to displease them in a way, [...]

The president of the medical association in Vienna demands a ban on fast food in schools. The Carinthians don’t like such an idea. “Nobody takes our beloved fast food away”, is the sulky comment from Austrias Southern province. It’s an undisputed truth that fast food is not the healthiest nutrition. Especially for young people. Fast [...]

According to a new survey of Statistik Austria, 75,5 percent of Austrians feel “very good” or at least “good”. This is quite a suprising result, as most of the Austrians suffer under many medical conditions and chronic diseases. 2,3 mio Austrians over 15 years have backbone troubles, 1,3 mio blood-pressure, 1,1 mio always problems with [...]

In Feldkirch, a little town in the province of Voralberg, on Monday, the 6th of August, the monozygotic (appeared from one fertilized egg) triplet of girls is born. The probability to give a birth to such an identical triplet is only 1 to 200 million… This phenomenon is possible to achieve only by natural way, [...]

The aptitude tests for the medical study are evaluated. The best result had a young lady from Vienna, but applicants from Germany were averaged better than Austrians. 2.581 people applied in the test. 740 places at university are available. Two third of the applicants were Austrians, 28% Germans, and the rest came from several countries [...]

7.117 babies were born last year in the federal state of Tirol. Conspicuously is that women in old age became mothers more often, and the increase of abdominal deliveries. More and more women in Tirol decide to have a baby in old age. Last year every fourth mother was more than 35 years old. The [...]

The life expectancy in Austria continues to rise. Stronger in the Western parts of Austria than in the Eastern provinces. The data for such results comes from the new health report. Furthermore the differences in life expectancy between men and women decrease. The average Austrian man has a life expectancy of 76,5 years. The woman [...]

Almost a fourth of the Austrians suffer under mental illness in the course of a year. Such a conclusion can be found in the health economic study, which was carried out the first time in Europe. “Cost of Disorders of the Brain in Europe” is the title of the study. 28 European countries were investigated. [...]

The need for qualified employees of geriatric care is big in Austria. In spite of that a geriatric care school in Graz has to face empty class rooms. Reason is not a lack of interest, but the missing assistance of the employment agency. “The pupils need financial assistance”, says the female schoolmaster Heidemarie Schrötter. “No [...]

Hospital of Wels (Upper Austria) has purchased a new apparatus for investigation of coronary arteries without use of the catheter. The coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of illness and death in the developed countries. The new technology is able to help to detect changes in the heart vessels at their earliest stages, [...]

According to the survey of the province and Caritas organization, every second child between five and six years in Upper Austria has difficulties with the speech. Speech and language therapists say, that nowadays children of the early age (until two years) often spend too much time only with their mothers. The TV serves as a [...]

For the first time in Europe a stereotactic heart catheterization laboratory was opened in the Cardiology department of internal medicine at Vienna General Hospital (AKH). Three million Euros were spent to arrange it. For cardiologists this is a new way to treat heart illnesses. This laboratory is composed of two large magnets with a weight [...]

A worldwide unique museum of contraception and pregnancy termination was opened in Vienna. Numerous exhibits and various kinds of information about this subject are exposed. The possibility to regulate pregnancy and parenthood itself is an important achievement of the medicine. It is expected, that a lot of young people will visit this museum, in order [...]