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Do you remember Second Life? The online 3D infrastructure launched in 2003 that allows you to move around a virtual world with avatars that represent actual people and make purchases there? I like to compare virtual reality (VR) with Second Life – but to point out the differences rather than the similarities. mehr

Die europäische Union besteht aus insgesamt 28 Mitgliedsstaaten und aus ebenso vielen Gesundheitssystemen. Durch unterschiedlichen politischen Anspruch bzw. sozioökonomischen Kontext unterscheiden sich die Gesundheitssysteme teilweise gravierend, dennoch verfolgen sie alle ein und das selbe Ziel: die Gewährleistung der gesundheitlichen Versorgung … mehr

Die Bedeutung von qualitativ hochwertiger Ärzte-Fortbildung steigt gerade in diesen Tagen drastisch. antwerpes setzt schon länger auf das Thema Medical Education und hat deshalb in 2016 ein darauf spezialisiertes Team aufgestellt. Didaktisch moderne Fortbildungskonzepte für medizinische Fachkreise sind nach Meinung … mehr

According to the World Health Organization, around 40% of all adults are overweight, and around a third of those are obese. Alarmingly, overweight/ obesity is the fifth leading cause of death and considerably increases the risk of getting other diseases, such as diabetes. Unfortunately, curing obesity is not that simple. Since it is a multifactorial disease, lifestyle interventions including exercise and diet are not always sufficient to achieve weight loss. Hence, there is a high interest in the development of safe anti-obesity drugs. In 2009, brown adipose tissue emerged as attractive drug target and the application of targeted nanoparticles could be a novel solution to deliver drugs selectively into adipose tissue in order to avoid side effects. mehr

It is likely that most communications agencies claim to be creative and innovative. However, not many agencies really live and breathe these two words every day, constantly challenging themselves and their clients to achieve new things. The Cologne-based digital and communications experts at antwerpes do just this – and have done so for 26 years. The mission of the antwerpes team: to develop new and surprising concepts for the client and implement these ideas as high quality communications solutions. mehr

Since the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century the image of bacterial infections has changed dramatically. Numerous diseases that have been a death warrant before do no longer pose a thread to modern medicine. But, soon after Fleming’s famous discovery a resistant strain of Staphylococcus was found that urged the need for new antibiotics. And thus, up to date, a plethora of different antibiotics have been developed. However, 100 years after the discovery of penicillin, the world is now facing another bacterial threat, this time caused by the cure itself. In their global report on surveillance, the WHO alerts that without urgent action we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries can once again kill. This crisis is not only attributed to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, but also to the lack of new innovative drugs. mehr