Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is the intensive feeling that the body will be more ´complete´after amputation of a limb. Prof. Dr. Erich Kasten and Frederike Spithaler investigated the personality profiles of BIID sufferers. Result: "Overall, the personality profiles were in the average range."

The human heart, often described as the body's engine, is a remarkable organ that tirelessly beats to keep us alive. At the core of this vital organ, intricate processes occur when it contracts, where thick and thin protein-filaments interact within the sarcomere, the fundamental building block of both skeletal and heart muscle cells. Any alterations in thick filament proteins can have severe consequences for our health, leading to conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and various other heart and muscle diseases.

The climate emergency has escalated around the world in 2023 in unprecedented ways as multiple compounding disasters and their health impacts have increased exponentially. It is one of the greatest public health threats of our time. The consequences have included the destruction of livelihoods, increased hunger, human suffering, and death and have led to increasing inequities within and between countries. While the planet experiences floods, heat waves, crop failures, fires, water shortages and more, fossil fuel subsidies have risen to a record high. We urgently call for the implementation of the strategies proposed in the IPCC 2023 report.

Surgery professor produces video for New England Journal of Medicine to cut down on post-surgery infections that take a high toll on patients and the health-care system.