Archive Medicine and Dentistry 2016

Article list Medicine and Dentistry

• 08.12.2016 Digital Health

  Medicine at a Turning Point

  The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.

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• 07.10.2016 Research Collaboration

  Flagship Project Dedicated to Skin Research

  The research network University Medicine Zurich has launched a new, large-scale interdisciplinary project dedicated to skin research – helping to make Zurich one of the world’s leading centers in the field.

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• 15.09.2016 UZH Digital Society Initiative

  «This child is going to make us very proud.»

  Prominent figures from business and politics gathered in the main lecture hall to kick off the UZH Digital Society Initiative. It’s designed as a vehicle to enable the University to take a leading role in digital transformation.

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• 26.02.2016 New Publication Platform

  Galileo Would Have Loved It!

  It often takes years before individual discoveries are published. A new publication platform called Matters, developed at UZH, enables researchers to publish interim findings more quickly than used to be possible. The new platform was presented yesterday.

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• 19.02.2016 Pharmacology

  Breaking the vicious circle of heart failure

  In patients with heart failure, the pumping power of the heart decreases in a fatal downward spiral. Pharmacologists at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich have now succeeded in breaking this vicious circle in the mouse model. Their approach could one day also benefit humans.

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