Complications during pregnancy or childbirth can cause lasting damage to a child's brain functions. The search for risk factors and therapies combines basic and clinical research.

Is football, if it follows certain rules, also suitable for people with heart disease? Researchers from the Department of Cardiology at the University Medical Centre are currently investigating this.

Over the next few years, urgently needed buildings for University Medicine Oldenburg will be constructed in the Technology Park. The state of Lower Saxony has now purchased the site - an important milestone for the upcoming construction.

Dirk Weyhe sees IT and digitalization playing an integral role in the operating rooms of the future. He and his team are working to harness new technologies for surgical procedures.

Next winter semester, 120 new medical students will begin their studies at the University of Oldenburg, before only 80 students were accepted. The preparations are in full swing, and time is tight.

The parties in government of Lower Saxony presented the results of the budget meetings on Tuesday. According to that, an additional 40 medical study places will be set up at the University of Oldenburg as of the winter semester 2022/23.

Lack of trust can make lonely people feel even lonelier, according to a current study in which researchers from Oldenburg were involved.

As a GP, Michael Freitag, a university lecturer in general medicine, has a lot of experience with vaccinations. In this interview, he explains what role GP practices should play in the Covid-19 vaccination programme - and what it's like to receive a vaccination yourself.

Lower Saxony's state government has announced that it will now provide 80 million euros for the first construction phase of the new teaching and research building at the University Medical Centre.

New insights are paving the way for highly targeted cancer therapies. In this interview, Frank Griesinger, director of the Centre for Internal Medicine – Oncology at Oldenburg Pius Hospital, explains the latest results of a clinical trial.

Following the state government's decision not to earmark any funds for the planned construction of the university medical centre in next year's draft budget, there is widespread resistance.

The University Institute for Medical Microbiology and Virology at Oldenburg Hospital is responsible for detecting infectious pathogens. Head Axel Hamprecht describes the challenges he and his team are currently facing.

We think of the cornea as a windscreen for the eye. But this transparent layer of tissue is far more complex than a simple protective covering. Stefan Schrader and Sonja Mertsch are pursuing new approaches to treating diseases of the ocular surface.

At the cutting edge of science: Oldenburg psychiatrist René Hurlemann is researching how new types of medication and procedures can help people with severe depression.