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More Brain Lesions in Senior Women than in Men of the Same Age

In women after menopause, the extent of certain brain lesions is larger than in men of the same age. DZNE researchers come to this conclusion based on the assessment of more than 3,400 adults as part of the Bonn Rhineland Study.

Cancer patients receiving immunotherapy: no evidence of increased risk for severe immune complication after COVID-19 vaccination

Does COVID-19 vaccination increase the risk of cancer patients undergoing therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors to suffer a dangerous immune complication known as a "cytokine release syndrome"? A team of Heidelberg physicians and scientists has now shown in a clinical study: Increased serum levels of the characteristic cytokines occur frequently in cancer patients, but clinically relevant cases of the dreaded syndrome were not observed. The result supports the current recommendation to vaccinate cancer patients against COVID-19, even under therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Clinical Research Award for DZIF and DZL tuberculosis researchers

Prestigious research award goes to researchers from two DZGs

This year's Award for Clinical Research of the German Society of Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) went to a group of three young researchers from two German Centers for Health Research.

Obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure increase mortality from COVID-19

Data from the European case register LEOSS

Obesity, impaired blood glucose metabolism, and high blood pressure increase the risk of dying from COVID-19 in young and middle-aged people to a level mostly observed in people of advanced age.

"Pacesetters in health research"

10 Years of DZG

Four of six German Centres for Health Research (DZG) celebrated their tenth anniversary today with a ceremony in Berlin and around 300 guests from the worlds of politics and science.

The Immune System - Our Health Network

SYNERGIE issue 1/22 published

In the current issue of SYNERGIE - Research for Health, the research magazine of the DZG, everything revolves around the body's own defense system. Read about the impressive ways in which the immune system protects us against disease and how it sometimes overreaches in the task.

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