Studies confirm "that it is crucial to look at patterns of drug-crime trajectories with renewed lenses, able to go beyond traditional explanations which regarded the pharmacological effects of drugs as the main motive for offending. In particular, we argue that we cannot fully understand youth drug use and offending without considering them as a part of those who were referred to as ´subterranean values´ of capitalism which have moved above ground to become well-settled features of contemporary society," Sara Rolando and colleagues emphasize in ´Who? Variation and distinction in the European drugs landscape´.

Each year 125.000 children are born in the EU with a height that falls below the 2.5th percentile and thereby are considered to have a short stature. Short stature and growth failure are often confused. Growth failure is a pathologic state of abnormally low growth rate over time and a growth deviation from a previously defined growth percentile, whereas short stature can also be due to a normal variation in human height. The European QoLISSY Group describes how to assess the social and psychological quality of life of children and adolescents with short stature and their parents. The handbook includes the QoLISSY questionaire user´s manual (incl. CD-Rom).

Why is the work of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), the founder of scientific psychology, still helpful, interesting, stimulating and relevant today? Prof. Dr. Jochen Fahrenberg explains:

Chemsex is a subcultural phenomenon where men who have sex with men consume drugs to facilitate sex sessions, usually accompanied by electronic dance music. Experts have tended to focus on chemsex as a public health concern, with both drug use and risky sexual behaviour implicated in physical and mental harm. But chemsex is also an arena of illegal drug use and drug supply. Christine Schierano and Gary R. Potter explored the nature of drug distribution within this subcultural scene in London.

Cardiac surgery: "Anaesthesiologists play a significant role in the management of cardiac surgical patients during the various stages of Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Anesthesia drug administration and maintenance , hemodynamic management, coagulation management, monitoring and prevention of complications and disasters (air embolism, vasoplegia, awareness under anesthesia, allergic reactions and MH), neuroprotection, and preventon of endorgan injury are important aims of anesthesia management during cardiopulmonary bypass. Communication and coordination between the surgical, anesthesia, and perfusion teams are key to the successful conduct of Cardiopulomary Bypass and cardiac surgery," Steven Bartels and Kathirvel Subramaniam emphasize in the new textbook "Extracorporeal Circulation in Theory and Practice".

Yoshua Bengio played a crucial role in the development of the machine-learning systems we see today. Now, he says that they could pose an existential risk to humanity.

An international study involving the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) shows that pulsed field ablation is more effective, gentler and associated with fewer complications than other methods for treating atrial fibrillation. With the pulsed field method, the areas of the heart tissue responsible for the development of atrial fibrillation are specifically sclerosed by means of electrical impulses and not by heat or cold as with other methods. The results of the MANIFEST-17K study were published in the renowned journal Nature Medicine.