Press releases
University Medicine Magdeburg again awarded gold certificate by the ‘Aktion Saubere Hände“ ausgezeichnet
Magdeburg University Hospital has once again been awarded gold status by ‘Aktion Saubere Hände’ (Clean Hands Campaign) in the recertification of hand hygiene for the years 2024 and 2025. Of a total of 45 hospitals in Saxony-Anhalt, only four were awarded this gold certificate, confirming the high standards of hygiene at Magdeburg University Hospital.
Participants wanted for study aged 79 and over
Neuroscientists at Magdeburg University Hospital are looking for people aged 79 and over to take part in studies investigating brain activity in old age.
Medical Sunday
Magdeburg University Medicine, Urania Magdeburg and the Volksstimme newspaper cordially invite you to the next edition of Medical Sunday on 17 November 2024. The topic is ‘Heart disease! What to do? How to protect the heart?’.
Life-saving operation: Boy with severe abdominal wall cleft successfully treated at Magdeburg University Hospital
10-year-old Omar from Afghanistan suffered from a giant omphalocele, in which vital organs were located outside the abdominal cavity. Specialists at Magdeburg University Hospital successfully performed an operation and moved the organs back into the abdominal cavity.
‘Gender-sensitive medicine, please!’
Under the title ‘Gender-sensitive medicine, please! - Excellent medicine of tomorrow’, Prof. Dr Ute Seeland will give her inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Medicine at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg on 15 November 2024 at 2 pm.
Prof Dr Christoph Lohmann to become the new President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in 2025
Prof Christoph Lohmann, Director of the Orthopaedic University Clinic at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, will take over as President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) from January 2025.