Vienna was the only Austrian member city in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Region Healthy Cities Network to participate in the organization’s annual conference in the Belgian more...
Class 3A at the Berufsschule für Verwaltungsberufe (a medium-level secondary vocational school for administrative jobs) in Vienna’s Castelligasse have spent the school year exploring in depth more...
The Vienna-based “Vertebralia” orthopaedic day clinic recently opened a branch in Warsaw that now also promises rapid pain relief to Polish patients with back problems more...
The first artificial heart was implanted in Vienna 25 years ago. The cardiac surgeons and researchers at Vienna General Hospital have since assumed a leading role world-wide in this field more...
The University Clinic of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Vienna General Hospital will shortly be celebrating its hundredth anniversary. Thanks to its specialities, the clinic has become one of the more...
More than 4,000 Czech doctors are threatening to leave the country on 1 January 2011 to work abroad because of the deteriorating situation in the Czech Republic more...
Apart from music it was medicine that greatly contributed to Vienna’s worldwide renown. It was here that Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis first discovered that childbed fever was caused by infection through contact more...
World AIDS Day is observed on 1 December of every year. Red ribbons were displayed, a torch parade was organised and numerous other events promoting solidarity and information were staged more...
"Things are moving. Concentrated planning and conceptual work is and has been playing a decisive role in building Europe’s most modern hospital – and we will continue this work until the partial more...