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If everything goes optimally, the new heart centre at Heidelberg University Hospital could go into operation as early as 2029. The state of Baden-Württemberg supports the construction project and, on Tuesday, October 25, declared its support for the importance of the planned new...

An overactive enzyme that causes an inherited form of high blood pressure also appears to protect against hypertension-induced cardiac damage. A team of researchers from the Max Delbrück Center, ECRC, and DZHK led by Enno Klußmann explains in the journal Circulation how this...

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann from the Greifswald University Hospital was elected as the new chairman of the DNVF at the beginning of October. He will thus head the ten-member board of the German Network for Health Services Research (DNVF) for the next two years. Hoffmann has been...

At the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Prof. Dr. Derk Frank has been the new director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine III, focusing on cardiology, angiology and internal intensive care medicine since October 1. Previously, he was the acting director...

Dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease, is the most common cause of heart transplants. Dr. Julian Grünewald from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) wants to treat a particularly aggressive form of this disease by intervening in the genome. To do this, he uses a...