Press releases
Participants wanted for study aged 79 and over
Neuroscientists at Magdeburg University Hospital are looking for people aged 79 and over to take part in studies investigating brain activity in old age.
Medical Sunday
Magdeburg University Medicine, Urania Magdeburg and the Volksstimme newspaper cordially invite you to the next edition of Medical Sunday on 17 November 2024. The topic is ‘Heart disease! What to do? How to protect the heart?’.
Life-saving operation: Boy with severe abdominal wall cleft successfully treated at Magdeburg University Hospital
10-year-old Omar from Afghanistan suffered from a giant omphalocele, in which vital organs were located outside the abdominal cavity. Specialists at Magdeburg University Hospital successfully performed an operation and moved the organs back into the abdominal cavity.
‘Gender-sensitive medicine, please!’
Under the title ‘Gender-sensitive medicine, please! - Excellent medicine of tomorrow’, Prof. Dr Ute Seeland will give her inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Medicine at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg on 15 November 2024 at 2 pm.
Prof Dr Christoph Lohmann to become the new President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in 2025
Prof Christoph Lohmann, Director of the Orthopaedic University Clinic at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, will take over as President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) from January 2025.
Magdeburg medical student honoured for research into lung cancer
How can the defence mechanisms of lung cancer cells be broken through? This question is at the centre of the research of Janne Drews, an 11th semester medical student at the Faculty of Medicine at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. She wins the 2024 Research Prize of the German Society for Thoracic Surgery.