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This weekend a symposium about childbirth took place in Linz. Physicians from many countries shared their knowledge. The main emphasis was made on the love for unborn baby. According to gynecologist dr. Hans Neumann, the initiator of the Symposium, stress during pregnancy today is quite a natural state for the fetus, however lack of love [...]

About 15,000 participants from 92 countries meet at the Congress of European Society of Radiology in Vienna (Wiener Austria Center) today. This meeting is organized in Vienna since 1991: until 1999 – every second year, and since 2000 – yearly. Radiology is a medical specialty, where X rays and other penetrating radiation are used for [...]

About 400.000 Austrians have depressions, complain specialists. They demand more effective medicaments beside the therapy. Only 36.000 of 400.000 receivce an optimal treatment. The disease is not taken seriously in Austria. Globally humans die three times more of suicide, in comparison with AIDS, and eight times more, in comparison with Malaria.

According to statistics of Austria, there is a clear increase of life expectancy in 2006. Today in Austria, on the average, men live a bit more than 77 years, and the women reach almost 83 years. In the year 2006 73,587 Austrians died, this is a decrease by 1.4 percent, compared with the year 2005. [...]

The Austrian Obesity Report 2006 showed alarming results: already school-age-children suffer from overweight more and more often. Today about 10 percent of them are overweight and about 5 percent are obese. Against this maldevelopment the SPORTUNION with the movement- and nutrition-oriented public healthcare project UGOTCHI makes an important step forward. With the slogan “Was Hänschen [...]

This Friday was a deadline of the advance registration for the medical studies in Austria. In Vienna University there were about 4,500 candidates registered. The relation between German and Austrian candidates remains about the same: 62 percent come from Austria and 31 – from Germany. More than 2000 candidates applied for the medical studies in [...]

St. Pölten. Approximately 70,000 persons visited hospitals of Lower Austria on the Open-Door-Day last year. Also this year on the 3rd of March, citizens of the province have a possibility to get acquainted with the achievements and the level of the medical provision in the hospitals. According to the governor of the province Dr. Erwin [...]

In one of hospitals in Linz a 55-years-old woman has undergo an operation last Thursday due to suspected brain disease, such as brain tumour, encephalitis, or stroke. The brain tissue taken during the operation microscopically showed lesions similar to those typical for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. When they were examined in prion laboratory in Vienna, the diagnosis [...]